A journal of an attempt to raise Seahorse Babies

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Good job so far. Are these kudas or erectus? Hopefully they're not Reidis because those seem harder to rear than the other species, since the babies are pelagic & don't hang onto things. Whatever species they are, looks like you did a good job researching & setting up a proper system.

Anthony

[phillybean]

Sweet! Looks awesome, I've been crusin Reef Central for months and came accross this site a few weeks ago and have been a looky-lou for until now, I signed up just to ask this question...

Do you have any idea why the adults "did it"?

[howdy20012002]

Still no casaulties.
They are getting bigger.
You can see them eating the rotifers now.
I am still doing about a 30 percent water change x 2 a day from the main SH tank.
And still adding a fair amount of prime.
Lots of rotifers in there.
Phillybean...the adults "did" it because it is in their nature to reproduce.
I am going to start growing live brine shrimp this weekend to get used to doing it and so that I can have some live adults in a couple of weeks.
Neal

[phillybean]

Hah, I didn't mean it like that, I'm still new to reef keeping but my question was what caused it? I didn't think that Sea Horses bred in tanks commonly, what do you think caused yours too? How old are they? Was it just the 2 in the tank? Were there any special conditions that may have helped them to breed? On a lighter note...they musta look funny "doing it"

[howdy20012002]

I believe they are about a year old. I personally have only had them for about a month. Maybe tranvictor knows how old they are.
actually SH bred quite regularly in captivity. It is just difficult generally to have any luck with raising the babies.