Woke up to a suprise this morning!

[Diana]

I knew there must have been something waking me up early.... I got up... looked in my seahorse tank and saw....

BABIES!

I didn't even know my male was pregnant! You can imagine my suprise... I've only had my ponies a few weeks and they are already breeding. So I set up an emergency fry tank and started decapsulating some baby brine shrimp. EEEEK I hope some survive!

These are TINY buggers. I mean, less than 1 cm in length from head to tail.

Some pictures!

After removing them from the parent's tank:




The fry tank:




And the little buggers:






-Diana

[christyf5]

OMG! That is so awesome

Good luck raising them!

[OCDP]

Very cool.. Good luck

[sumpfinfishe]

Congrats! there sooooo cute

[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