seahorsemad Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Was watching TV tonight and looked over at the tank to see my fav seahorses breeding (female gave her eggs to the male) YAYYYY just got to wait 28 days to see if it was successful. This time i shall be more prepared for the arrival of three hundred little bundles of joy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatBrat Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 lol, Congratulations!!! Did you raise any of the last lot? Cheers, CatBrat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seahorsemad Posted March 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 hi Catbrat, only managed to keep one but he/she is in the main tank now and hanging out with there dad and finally eating frozen mysis shrimp. Im so excited to get another chance at bringing up some ponies (seahorse term for baby seahorses) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillz Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Congrats would love to see pic of the ponies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Congrats Seahorsemad.. hope you manage to rear a few. I think that many here would be very interested in the progress of these little guys if you can find time to keep us posted Did you establish how you lost the others..? Was it conditions, temp, food, or unknown..? Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustcooktea Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Seahorses are adorable. You could end up with quite a herd of them! How big is the little one from last years brood? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 How deep was the water column that they spawned in?? Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wok Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 Wahoo!!!! and the othernight you said they won't be spawning untill the end of the year. Congrats Seahorsemad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 good on ya. start growing your brineshrimp matey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seahorsemad Posted March 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Hi Guys The seahorses spawn in approx 50cm column of water, i know 30cm is the min, i think the only problem the seahorses have is that they get so caught up in the moment they forget where everything is in the tank and constanlty bump into things. Pegusus i think the reason why i lost so many of the first batch is that i gave them too much water. They are really lazy and will starve themselves before they move around the tank and find BBS it has to be right in front of them. This time i will only give them a small amount of water and the same amount of food. Hopefully i will get a better result Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 They are really lazy and will starve themselves before they move around the tank and find BBS it has to be right in front of them.Is there no way you could set up a drip feed system so that the shrimps are fed directly into the area where they cling to..? A simple tub (like a tupperware container) could be set up above the tank with multiple outlets of clear air hose that are nipped off to just allow a certain amount of drip. A bit like a Calf Feeder... but with hoses instead of teats. You could then just tip the shrimp in there along with some clean salt water and the siphon would start automatically... with a constant drip of shrimps. The normal air valves would probably not work too well... but the ones that clamp the tube would work fine. Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Good thinking Bill. But the container with the BBS will have to be aerated to keep the BBS alive and in the water column. Congrates on the ponies, cute eh?? Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 From going through a seahorse 'factory' one problem with raising the ponies is if they feed from the surface and get a gulp of air - they can't get rid of the air and die. This meant that the raising tanks were set up so that they didn't have much overhead light (BBS will head to the light accumulating at the surface making it much more likely that the seaponies will get a gulp of air when feeding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 To over come the problem that Rob so rightly points out. Use a light from the side, near the base for illumination. Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeahorseWorld Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Hi Guys Allans suggestion was correct you do need to illuminate tank from near the bottom of the tank allso you need to enrich artemia before feeding out to the ponies. Are you enriching and with what Regan Seahorse World Aqaurium Picton NZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klaymann Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 know this is an old post , but with newborn " ponies" :-? ... place fresh live rock from deep rock pools into the rearing tank every other day.. these contain many hundreds/thousands of micro foods ( copepods etc ) that help the baby seahorses to fatten up ... before you intro BBS etc. hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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