Pics of Seahorses BREEDING!! Male is now eating!
 

Well, I'm assuming that the male seahorse is fine now because I just saw them making mad passionate seahorse loving. He inflated & spread his pouch opening & her ovipositor (egg depositing tube) is extended. Tried taking pics but they're doing it in the dark (a cave) so the flash is too invasive & I stopped after 1 try.

Will update soon.

Anthony (breathing easier (also because I finally have a day off!!!! - great timing))

Haha,

That's awesome. What size of tank do you have for your seashorses?

It's a 33g tank. Here's some photos:

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...CN8731-med.JPG
Doing the Nasty with Yellowheaded Jawfish Voyeur :eek:

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...CN8730-med.JPG
Now both Jawfish are drooling :eek: :eek:

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...CN8729-med.JPG
Here's Mr. Two-Spot Tang looking for some hot SH loving :redface:

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...rseJawfish.JPG Old pic of Jawfish spying on the seahorses before all this Horsing around got started.

Now to go look some more. (SH porn :eek: :rolleyes: )

Anthony

seahorse
 

Great to see that he's back in the saddle and healthy :smile: :smile:

I thought this was a G rated forum :redface: :rolleyes:

Glad to hear your SH is doing better... Nothing better than a little lovin' following a traumatic event.... always makes me feel better :eek:
Dano

Kudas give birth to very small fry. Gestation is about 14 days. Newly hatched brine will be too big for the kuda fry to eat. NOW is the time to set up your green water/rotifer hatchery so the fry will have food to eat.

Here are a few resources from Google:

http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/rotifers.shtml

Phytoplankton:

http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/phyto.shtml

http://www.worldofseahorses.com/feedingfry.htm :

http://www.reefs.org/library/aquariu...97/0397_5.html

Long, but informative article on rearing fry (and just about everything else about SHs):

http://www.ipaq.org.br/modules.php?n...rticle&sid=174

Good luck :biggrin: :cool:

I saw the male suck down some PE Mysis today so now I think the bristleworm episode is over.

Whew.

Thank you everybody for your concern & prayers during this whole SH soap opera.

Anthony

Anthony is going to be a Grandpa. :mrgreen:

Congrats!!!!!!!!

Congrad's have you thought of names for the young???

Tom R

Yes I have Tom.

I'm naming them after Canreefers.

So there will be a:

Tom
Tomm
Chin
Steve
Callum
Cindy
Deb
Christy
Marie
John
Ivy
Michael
Robert, Robert2, Robert3, Robert4.......
Brad, Brad2, Brad3, Brad4, Brad5..........

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'd be ecstatic if any of this batch survives, assuming the eggs are fertile to begin with. Gonna hope for the best, prepare ahead of time, and be willing to accept whatever happens.

By the way,

anybody know where I can buy pin-head sized diapers :biggrin:

Anthony

How many Brads are on this board :lol: I know of at least 3 :eek:

some day I will go some where I have my name all to my own. :biggrin:


good luck with the fry. :mrgreen:

Brad

Anthony,

You are going to have lots of etcs. as kudas usually have tons of fry. Seems to me the larger the SH, the smaller the fry and the greater numbers of them. I wouldn't be surprised if your male gives birth to a hundred or more. Broods get successively larger as the SHs mature. I have heard of kudas giving birth to two hundred fry.

The best way to make sure you catch all the fry is to set up a holding container for the male for his due date. Here's one I made out of Lego and tent screen (so water could flow through, but the fry couldn't escape)for my H. whitei when I had them:

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/hh-bw-28gal-breeder-1.jpg

Make sure the top of the container is higher than the water level of the tank. Here's the holding container with some macroalgae for hitching in the whitie's 28g:

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/hh-bw-28gal-tank-3.jpg

You'll have to make your container higher than the one I made as whitei are about 1/4 of the body size of kuda.

Here's one of my pregnant whitei:

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/hh-bw-28gal-male-12.jpg

Fry bowls were set up as soon as I knew the male was pregnant. Did 50% water changes at least once a day to keep ammonia levels down. Fry are lots of work :eek:

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/hh-bw-28...frybowls-1.jpg

Fry in one of the bowls:

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/hh-bw-28...pt11-fry-3.jpg

H. whitei fry are big enough to eat newly hatched brine when they are born. Here's my brine hatchery. The bottles are for newly hatched BS and for BS that are over 24 hrs old for gut-loading with Selco. The four 3.5g tanks were for BS grow out for when the fry got larger. Unfortunately I did not have much luck with my fry:

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/hh-bw-28...hatchery-2.jpg

Congrats Buddy :) Keep us updated,and take lots of pictures!

Thanks everybody.

Bev, I'll be making a larger mesh containment unit ASAP. Thanks for the info & the pics. Extremely helpful.

It'll be a great (huge) challenge to successfully breed & rear these seahorses but WOW! if somewhere down the line we can do it on a semi-consistent basis.

(Honey, we have to move. Why? I need to set up a seahorse farm & our 1 bedroom basement suite's not big enough. :lol: )

Anthony