Woke up to a suprise this morning!

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Diana,

PMed you back some info. Cool pix. Congrats on the baby ponies & good luck with their care.

Anthony

[Chad]

Just wondering if anyone has used the baby seahorses as live feed for their reef tank? assuming you are not capable of breeding the necessary foods for them to live.

[andestang]

that is awesome Good luck & keep us posted

[muck]

wow.. those little ponies sure are small.
Good luck raising them!!

[Beverly]

What species are they? I'm thinking they are too small to eat newly hatched brine shrimp until they get a bit bigger. For the next few weeks, they will probably only eat rotifers. Hope I am wrong, though. Good luck with them

[Funky_Fish14]

Congrats on the little babies! I wish you the best of luck in raising them!

Chad, I know that corals will eat them if they manage to land on a sticky part of a brain or such, and I know people who's fish in the same tank as the horses have eaten them. Not quite sure how good a food it is though?

Chris

[Diana]

Thanks guys! I'm excited and going to do my best to raise them (and if I cant, I'll try again next time ).

Originally Posted by Beverly

What species are they? I'm thinking they are too small to eat newly hatched brine shrimp until they get a bit bigger. For the next few weeks, they will probably only eat rotifers. Hope I am wrong, though. Good luck with them

They are reidi, which are pretty small when born. I've read they do best on roties when they are young, but numerous people on seahorse.org are raising thiers on bbs and having a fairly good succsess rate. A lady on the site also noted that my fry seem to be fairly large, and might do okay on bbs right off the bat.

I'm crossing my fingers.

-Diana

[pc604]

now that's cool! i've never seen baby ones before. good luck raising them

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Diana

A lady on the site also noted that my fry seem to be fairly large, and might do okay on bbs right off the bat.

I'm crossing my fingers.

I'm crossing mine, too

Next to feeding them, ammonia build up is their tank is the second biggest hurdle to overcome. Make sure you have plenty of change water on hand. When I tried raising our H. whitei, I often did two 50% water changes a day, siphoning crud from the bottom as I did so.

Good luck!!!

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Also test the change water to be exactly the same as the baby growout tank's (pH, salinity & temp. mainly). At this stage, they're very sensitive to changes in the water composition & being extra careful will hopefully pay off.

Not to be a downer, but if it doesn't work out, don't be too discouraged because most breeders (whether for seahorses or other species) are unsuccessful with their first batch of young. Good luck with this "new pile of extra work you weren't expecting"

Anthony