Not now. Too soon

I so ready to raise fry again, but I can't start until after Thanksgiving.  I'm going out of town and my pet sitter won't do fry.  I've told my horses this several times.  Please no babies until after Thanksgiving.  This morning I go to feed, and my little male has a BIG pouch.  I so hope it's water and he is showing off.  I worked 14hrs yesterday, so I have no idea if he had an egg transfer or not.  Maybe I'll get lucky and he will go exactly 21 days.  That will make the babies be here the day I get back.  Oh well, guess I"ll miss this first batch.

Me too Snake.  I loved raising them the last time.  I put the DH on notice that he has to finish the drywall in the laundry room and get my RO/DI unit up so I don't have to buy water.  I just placed an order for decapped brine shrimp eggs and most likely I will get the 10g up and going this afternoon to check pumps and everything.  Just in case.  Then I'll go to the LFS tomorrow to get some chaeto so I can try and get some pods in the tank.  I think the fry do better if they have pods to snack on too.

I don't know that I would call myself "successful"  LOL  Last time I had adult horses they only produced 1 batch of fry.  Out of that batch I managed to get 11 to adulthood.  This time I'm going to use probiotics (the same one's I'm dosing my tanks with) to help enrich my BBS.  They are supposed to help boost the immune system.  So, if I do in fact have a pregnant seahorse, and it's not just water for showing off.  Here is the tiny offender

Not sure which female is the mom but I think it's this one

But it could be her

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Originally Posted by SnakeBlitz33 

Aww... too cute. "The offender" funny funny. lol

 

keep the pics coming... I want to get in on the details. Raising 11 seahorses to me is amazing! Much more successful then I would ever be at it.

 

I personally plan on getting back into raising clownfish again. I might move on later to orchid dottybacks, but I dunno quite yet where life will throw me.

I will defiantly try and keep a thread updated.  Even if this batch doesn't work out, I'll do one with another batch.  God willing they have more.  I'd love to see a thread on orchid dottybacks.  I just put one in my 24g nano last week, it's beautiful, I just wish it would come out more.  Hopefully with time.  It looks like the clowns may have beat up on it a little, but I never see them bothering it.  It's top fin is a little ragged, and it looked fine before I added her.  S/he is eating OK and coming out more, so fingers crossed it will be OK.

My probiotics and food are both from Dan lol. I like his food. I know about the cleaning. Man the water and salt I went through the last time.  I'm so excited about trying again, I'm just bummed it seems like this batch will be at a bad time. I just hope if I can't get these I'll have another batch soon after.