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| View Poll Results: How long have your seahorses survived? | |||
| Wild caught - lived less than a week |
   
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1 | 3.33% |
| Wild caught - lived less than a month |
  
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1 | 3.33% |
| Wild caught - survived 1 to 3 months |
  
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2 | 6.67% |
| Wild caught - survived 3 to 6 months |
  
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1 | 3.33% |
| Wild caught - survived 6 to 12 months |
  
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1 | 3.33% |
| Wild caught - survived over a year |
  
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6 | 20.00% |
| Captive bred - lived less than a week |
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3 | 10.00% |
| Captive bred - lived less than a month |
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2 | 6.67% |
| Captive bred - survived 1 to 3 months |
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1 | 3.33% |
| Captive bred - survived 3 to 6 months |
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1 | 3.33% |
| Captive bred - survived 6 to 12 months |
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2 | 6.67% |
| Captive bred - survived over a year |
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9 | 30.00% |
| Voters: 30. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#1
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. Neal
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Way too much time and money has gone into this hobby....and yet, I CAN'T STOP 
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#2
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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#3
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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#4
01-26-2007, 05:40 PM
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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.
Anthony
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#5
01-26-2007, 11:58 PM
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Just wondering where people got their seahorses from.
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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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01-27-2007, 01:19 AM
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I've had both WC and CB and had good and bad experiences with both. CB seahorses can go off eating when shipped like was said before, I found a small power head moving frozen mysis around the bottom often would get them to take some food and once you get them to start they learn quick.
Seahorses can be very tempermental, put a lot of research into what you are considering and for starters I'd stick with H. Kuda (black kudas) or go into dwarfs as they tend to take to brine shrimp. I've been looking for a breeder in Canada and haven't found anyone yet but for a price one of the pet stores will order some in for you. Right now J&L has some H. Redei but the price is (wow) $180 each. They had some tiny kuda's but they were very expensive as well. Doug
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