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Originally Posted by ltay
3rd time the charm, this time round. I stayed up Sunday (Aug 29 2004) morning from 4 am (lucky that it was a weekend) and the babies were streaming out from the male seahorse pouch. I immediately shut off the valve and the pumps. Almost 100 babies, tranferred into the breeder tank with a small airline tube.
Some dead due to surface tension that caught them in the breeder tank and some were gulping air from the surface.
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I think if the male is in a separate container inside the tank and the top lip of the container is above the water line, keeping the pumps going would aerate the water so the fry wouldn't be gulping air at the surface. This is just my guess. When my males gave birth, I did not shut off anything. The fry would not be sucked into the pumps because they were in the screen container, but they would still have aerated water to breath from.