seahorse tank video

[mark]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y2x2dIlfLU4

never realized they swim so much and last out until minute 3:20, guy had some good timing.

[Beverly]

Cool video Mine never swam around all that much, but the video maker may have been editing his foootage to show them mostly swimming.

Great footage of the male giving birth. All the times my males gave birth, it was before lights on. I kept him in a birthing chamber at the top of the tank the night before he was going to give birth, so the fry wouldn't get lost in the tank.

[justinl]

Cool vid! Although I would like to comment on it a bit...

first off, If you keep seahorses please keep them with non aggressive tankmates (unlike damsels)... generally it isn't a good mix. I guess the videographer had it going well but it will usually just stress out the horses.

second, I believe that artemia are a bit bit too big for baby seahorses... I would prefer starting with rotifers which are about six times smaller.

third, I agree with the guy that the only seahorses you should buy are captive bred. Wild seahorses hate dead food. Too many people buy wild/untrained seahorses unknowingly and when they die of starvation the people wonder why.

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by justinl

second, I believe that artemia are a bit bit too big for baby seahorses... I would prefer starting with rotifers which are about six times smaller.

Depends on the species of SH. I kept temperate water H. whitei. Adults grew only to about 4" long. The fry were very large and ate artemia right away.

I also got a few H. reidi (I think) fry from BA's when I was raising my H. whitei. Amazing how tiny the reidi fry were compared to the H. whitei fry. All I had on hand to feed the reidi fry were artemia which were much too big for the fry. Unfortunately, they did not survive past three days

[trilinearmipmap]

What kind of gorgonia does he have and are they hard to keep?

[justinl]

ahhhh makes sense bev. I really only have experience with H. reidi and H. abdominalis.