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shrimpy brains
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Well, I guess I haven't been real vigilant lately!
I did notice that one of my males has been reclusive lately. Is that common when they are preggo??
Anyway, I came home from work tonite and was doing my top offs.(No I still don't have an ATO)
So, I go to pour some water in my seahorse tank refugium and what do I see??
That's right! Two baby seahorses!
I ended up finding 9 in the refugium and 3 in the tank. A total of 12. I don't have much hope for them, but I guess it means my horses have figured out the breeding thing!
I pulled them out and since all my small tanks are currently occupied, I put them in my dwarf tank!
Unfortunately, my clown babies are big enough not to need baby brine. I also have my dwarfs trained to eat frozen rotifers and cyclopeeze. So, I don't have any baby brine.
I added some live rotifers, along with frozen rotifers and frozen cyclopeeze, and set up a brine hatchery. Hopefully, I will have some baby brine in the morning. If I still have horse babies then, I can feed them.
Not ideal, but the dwarf seahorse tank is bare bottom and has fake plants with small enough hitches.
Anyway, I figured I would post to share. I don't think any will live. It's cool to know the horses are breeding, but sad that I didn't notice and act fast enough. I will def. get a tank ready for the next batch, and will let you know if I get incredibly lucky with these.
Sorry, no pics. My camera can barely get a decent pic of the dwarfs, and these are much smaller.
Anyway, I came home from work tonite and was doing my top offs.(No I still don't have an ATO)
So, I go to pour some water in my seahorse tank refugium and what do I see??
That's right! Two baby seahorses!
I ended up finding 9 in the refugium and 3 in the tank. A total of 12. I don't have much hope for them, but I guess it means my horses have figured out the breeding thing!
I pulled them out and since all my small tanks are currently occupied, I put them in my dwarf tank!
Unfortunately, my clown babies are big enough not to need baby brine. I also have my dwarfs trained to eat frozen rotifers and cyclopeeze. So, I don't have any baby brine.
I added some live rotifers, along with frozen rotifers and frozen cyclopeeze, and set up a brine hatchery. Hopefully, I will have some baby brine in the morning. If I still have horse babies then, I can feed them.
Not ideal, but the dwarf seahorse tank is bare bottom and has fake plants with small enough hitches.
Anyway, I figured I would post to share. I don't think any will live. It's cool to know the horses are breeding, but sad that I didn't notice and act fast enough. I will def. get a tank ready for the next batch, and will let you know if I get incredibly lucky with these.
Sorry, no pics. My camera can barely get a decent pic of the dwarfs, and these are much smaller.
