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View Poll Results: How long have your seahorses survived?
Wild caught - lived less than a week 1 3.33%
Wild caught - lived less than a month 1 3.33%
Wild caught - survived 1 to 3 months 2 6.67%
Wild caught - survived 3 to 6 months 1 3.33%
Wild caught - survived 6 to 12 months 1 3.33%
Wild caught - survived over a year 6 20.00%
Captive bred - lived less than a week 3 10.00%
Captive bred - lived less than a month 2 6.67%
Captive bred - survived 1 to 3 months 1 3.33%
Captive bred - survived 3 to 6 months 1 3.33%
Captive bred - survived 6 to 12 months 2 6.67%
Captive bred - survived over a year 9 30.00%
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Old 01-26-2007, 02:15 PM
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I've only kept CB, never WC. Unfortunately, my males often got air in their pouches and they died no matter how I tried to evac the pouches. Females lived much longer than males in my SH tank.
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Old 01-26-2007, 02:31 PM
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i have lost a few over the last few months..
they just seem to slowly waste away.
They are TR.
I personally woudn't buy WC, simply because the rate of survival is so low.
it gets to be an ethical dilemma of killing things for our own purpose.
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:39 PM
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I had my captive bread sea horses for about 3 months. I got board with the tank and ended up selling them. So can't tell you how long they would survive but I would sugest getting captive bred. They seem to be more prone to taking frozen foods and not relying on live foods.
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Old 01-26-2007, 04:12 PM
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IME, having a feeding station for mysis (preferably PE mysis) instead of just dropping in food for SHs, makes a huge difference in the amount of food they eat.
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Yup, train them to eat in one place all the time. Of course, sometimes just training them to eat frzn mysis is the trick, even if cr, some will get stressed from switching tanks & stop eating. Seen it happen before.

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Just wondering where people got their seahorses from.
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Old 01-27-2007, 12:41 AM
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Got my Shs from a supplier in ON. Unfortunately, he is no longer in business.
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