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#1
11-02-2010, 05:20 PM
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I always always wanted these! But my busy life style doesn't allow me to be that diligent in hatching and feeding live brine shrimps
 I had the larger ponies and they did great on frozen mysis, and even then, when we go out of town, it's hit and miss for the sons to feed them at least a couple of times a day.  Well, it's great to know of a canadian source/breeder. Keep up the good work! I am hoping that maybe when we retire, I can have at least a small tank of these in our RV, while traveling around Canada and US.  
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#2
11-02-2010, 08:01 PM
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So can these horses survive purely on fresh hatched brine shrimp? Or do they have to be enriched or fed something else for long term survival?
Do you have an idea on how much brine shrimp would be needed on a daily biases to sustain 6 of these guys in a small tank around 5-10 gallons?
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11-03-2010, 04:51 PM
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Freshly hatched baby brine shrimp is sufficient to sustain them, but it's been shown that enrichments high in HUFA works wonders in prolonging their life and promoting breeding.
The amount you feed depend on volume of water, not on the number of seahorses. Seahorses are opportunistic ambush hunters. They wait for the food to "pass by their doorstep". You should maintain a baby brine shrimp density of a "light flurries" in Canadian terminology  .I feed my 40gal breeder with 200 dwarves 1/8 teaspoon, hatched out at assumingly 75%, per day.
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~Zena Miracles I do everyday, but if you want the impossible, then I'll need at least 48 hours ** Taking a break (per say) from the hobby, but keeping a selected few seahorses to show and tell. Bye bye fishroom and hello display tank :S
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11-03-2010, 11:03 PM
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Great work, I can't even imagine the time you must spend on your tanks!! So dedicated... congrats on your success!!
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~ Claire ~ 46 gallon bowfront - Seahorse Species Tank
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#5
11-04-2010, 02:33 AM
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ponies
hey i sure could use some pointers on this ours have a batch about every 30 days and well we just never seem to catch this and if we do find a couple they don't make it more than a few days so we would like to try and save a few any help would be welcome
thanks
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#6
11-04-2010, 01:33 PM
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@tinman...PM sent.
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~Zena Miracles I do everyday, but if you want the impossible, then I'll need at least 48 hours ** Taking a break (per say) from the hobby, but keeping a selected few seahorses to show and tell. Bye bye fishroom and hello display tank :S
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