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06-25-2007, 10:44 PM
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Breeding seahorses is relatively easy. The real challenge is raising the young ponies to maturity. I've had breeding pairs in the past, but the babies are sooooo tiny when born that it is an extreme challenge to keep them well fed on live foods like rotifers and baby brine shrimp.
They like slow flow, lots of hitching posts (like gorgonias or gorg. skeletons), and its best to train them to eat a feed station, like an oyster shell with hitching posts nearby. I had several in my cube refugium before and they loved swimming through the Prolifera and red Halimenia "forests". Get them to feed defrosted mysis at the LFS before taking them home. You want to be sure they are already eating before deciding which one to keep. No bubbles in the tank. Seahorses love going where there's bubbles, but they often end up getting in trouble from that habit. Not sure what causes bubble-disease (when air bubbles get trapped under their skin or in their pouches - for the males). Anthony 
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06-25-2007, 11:09 PM
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Might seem like a dumb question, but I figure I am a noob so I am allowed
 Why can't the babies be fed frozen mysis that is pulverised or some other non-live food? I am guessing there is a perfectly logical answer for this one, but I was asked this and I don't actually know why. Also, how long would a tank need to be set up to be considered safe to add seahorses to and should a fish like a damsel or something just be kept there until that time, then taken out so the tank remains cycled and so forth? What is the purpose in waiting a long period in time past cycling if you have no live rock? Does the extra time make it more stable somehow or is it just to build up a copepod population? (Sorry these questions are so nooby  and thank you so much for having the patience to answer them!)
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06-26-2007, 12:10 AM
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The babies would probably not think crushed up mysis is food, because it would not trigger a natural feeding response.
There should be some LR in the tank for biological filtration & it needs to be cured. Seahorses are sensitive to chemical changes so don't have them in the tank until after the tank is stabilized.
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06-26-2007, 02:52 AM
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I think this is a species best avoided except by the insane.
My 30 gallon seahorse tank is cycling now. I will keep one pair of kuda's, maybe two. I agree with the others that an 8 gallon tank is too small.
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