Breeding seahorses is relatively easy. The real challenge is raising the young ponies to maturity. I've had breeding pairs in the past, but the babies are sooooo tiny when born that it is an extreme challenge to keep them well fed on live foods like rotifers and baby brine shrimp.
They like slow flow, lots of hitching posts (like gorgonias or gorg. skeletons), and its best to train them to eat a feed station, like an oyster shell with hitching posts nearby. I had several in my cube refugium before and they loved swimming through the Prolifera and red Halimenia "forests".
Get them to feed defrosted mysis at the LFS before taking them home. You want to be sure they are already eating before deciding which one to keep.
No bubbles in the tank. Seahorses love going where there's bubbles, but they often end up getting in trouble from that habit. Not sure what causes bubble-disease (when air bubbles get trapped under their skin or in their pouches - for the males).
Anthony
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06-25-2007, 10:44 PM
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