flower
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I just ordered and received my two new females from a lady named Penny. She rigged an interesting way of feeding her horses. She attached a concave shell to a magnet via silicone, and then attached the frozen cube by rubber-band...as it melts the hoses feed. Of course that eliminates the ability to rinse the food...but at the same time it also eliminates the amount of waste. She said her horses have no trouble getting used to that method, and she uses it for all of her seahorses. Since her horses already eat that way, it wouldn't take much for my boys to follow along...I hope.
I'm thinking of making a simpler method on the same idea....the Two little fishes clip that already has a magnet attached, and use a piece of wide mesh to hold the frozen food cube in place instead of the rubber-band, such as what I had used for a regular veggie clip to feed tangs.
I have been releasing food like I'm feeding fish, because the tube method I used with the Erectus won't work for either seahorses, they freak out at the tube and hide away and won't eat. They are happy enough to chase their food down, but the waste is outrages, and I'm feeding cyanobacteria and bristle worms besides the horses.
I welcome any comments, and other methods that might work, I really liked the feeding dish I had with the Erectus, and I'm a little bummed the others just won't take to it.
I just ordered and received my two new females from a lady named Penny. She rigged an interesting way of feeding her horses. She attached a concave shell to a magnet via silicone, and then attached the frozen cube by rubber-band...as it melts the hoses feed. Of course that eliminates the ability to rinse the food...but at the same time it also eliminates the amount of waste. She said her horses have no trouble getting used to that method, and she uses it for all of her seahorses. Since her horses already eat that way, it wouldn't take much for my boys to follow along...I hope.
I'm thinking of making a simpler method on the same idea....the Two little fishes clip that already has a magnet attached, and use a piece of wide mesh to hold the frozen food cube in place instead of the rubber-band, such as what I had used for a regular veggie clip to feed tangs.
I have been releasing food like I'm feeding fish, because the tube method I used with the Erectus won't work for either seahorses, they freak out at the tube and hide away and won't eat. They are happy enough to chase their food down, but the waste is outrages, and I'm feeding cyanobacteria and bristle worms besides the horses.
I welcome any comments, and other methods that might work, I really liked the feeding dish I had with the Erectus, and I'm a little bummed the others just won't take to it.