livingart Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 got some pics of local horses i am trying to rear at the moment 3 days old red fry, male gold fry, female the white dots are rotifers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zayne Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 congrats they look soo cute!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 nice one, how big are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisP Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Very Cute! What are they like to keep? Seahorses seem pretty cool! :lol: Also, I imagine they are hard to breed? Don't the fathers have pouches or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Congrats LA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
land_lubber Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Nice one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foamy Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 i want one! so cute.. how do you distinguished between male and female? colour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 they are about 1cm long males have belly pouch females have ribbing right down to tail dad starting labour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Insect Direct Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 very cool. they look delicate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 very cool. they look delicate. yes very, but about 20 went through the sump pump still alive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 thats one way to harden them up :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 or mince them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 they breed pretty easy but raising the fry is the difficult part i never had any luck they are just suicidal then hard to feed unless your really set up for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 rearing tanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatfish Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 congratulations and good luck with the rearing. They are certainly cute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 hard to get these in focus still over 100 fry lost 15 but these maybe the ones that went through the trickle tower or the pump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted September 21, 2010 Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 That's still pretty good! They aren't exactly easy to rear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 the ones that died did not seem to feed well even though i kept rotifers feeding to them the fry still going are around 20 - 25mm long now feeding BBS gut enriched with different strains of phyto plankton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted September 21, 2010 Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 Oh nice shots! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 not the biggest fry and can't train them to stretch right out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 A bit of Viagra might do it? :lol: Have you time to do a small article about this hatching please LA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 already started writing it my dear tried hairspray on them but it doesn't wear off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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