Dwarf Seahorses

[darth tang]

Didn't check yet...I will tomorrow and let you know. I gotta go, the work day is officially over and I need to run to the LFS to grab a couple peppermint shrimp, to take care of the aptasia I discovered in my seahorse tank last night.

 

[smoney]

Ok, next time I go I will count the rings and check out the snout length next time. He does know they are captive bred and before I buy a pony I am going to ask them to feed them

 

[otto13]

Yeah. Have him feed them at the store for sure. You are doing everything right it seems.
A great source for chaeto is coralgroher on ----. I have bought from him twice since the first delivery was so fast and so nice. The bidding is currently starting at 1 cent.
I definitely recommend this guy.

 

[jdragunas]

yeah... you live in CA... i live in OH... that might just not be worth it...

 

[snailheave]

get from that guy! save me the trouble of having to lift my ass off my comfortable chair

 

[jdragunas]

ok...

 

[snailheave]

since 1 cent is almost the same as free. and the guy probably knows more about shipping than i do anyway.
but mine has sea stars

 

[jdragunas]

I Know!!! I Want Some!!!

 

[snailheave]

you don't already?

 

[jdragunas]

don't already what?

 

[snailheave]

have those tiny sea stars

 

[jdragunas]

no

... My LR was shipped, and my cycle was so bad that nothing could've survived it... so i don't have anything...

 

[snailheave]

i'll take some pics of my fuge this weekend. the stars came with some live rocks i bought. there were only a handful in the beginning. now the population is in the hundreds

 

[jdragunas]

yeah, i don't even have any pods... my tank sucks...

 

[snailheave]

no pods?? how teh... well you must've killed everything with that psycho.. cycle of yours
well my chaetos have pods climbing all over.

 

[jdragunas]

yeah... long story short, "saltwater aquariums for dummies" didn't really touch on the "cycle", so when i added my LR, i was like WTF's going on??? My ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites were all off the charts for weeks... i mean, literally off the charts (the tests were darker than any color on the comparison chart...)
Nothing survived. I might get some LR from the LFS, just to get some hitchikers, and get a pod population going...

 

[darth tang]

You could ask them for a cup full of sand with pods...that is what I did in one of my tanks..got it for a buck.

 

[jdragunas]

hmmm.... not a bad idea... Thanks Darth.
oh, my hubby's email address is darthdragunas... isn't that great? He's such a nerd!!!

 

[darth tang]

How unoriginal..........JK.
Sounds like a cool guy to me.

 

[sleasia]

jdragunas: sounds like your live rock wasn't cycled. When you add uncycled live rock to a tank it screws it all up and starts it recycling. Uncycled live rock you have to put in a bucket of saltwater, scrub it, aerate it circulate it and cycle it separately, or it will screw up everything...Yeah, I did this, it was one of my many blunders. You can buy "cycled" live rock usually, its a bit more expensive.