Seahorse Food
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teresaq
Active Member
Are you gutloading the ghost shrimp before feeding out. This will help variy thier diet. but letting the ghost shrimp eat, the horses are in getting the extras they need.
here are a few things
Good products to use for enrichment include a HUFA such as Selco, Super Selco, or AlgaMac-3050, an Astaxanthin containing product like NatuRose or PhytoPlan, and Beta Glucan an immune system booster. (Note: Tahitian Algae Paste can be used in place of several of these products as it already contains them as ingredients). can also use cyclops, even good quality flake, if the ghosts will eat it.
You can also stock your tank with live mysis and amphipods. Have you tried switching them to frozen?
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here are a few things
Good products to use for enrichment include a HUFA such as Selco, Super Selco, or AlgaMac-3050, an Astaxanthin containing product like NatuRose or PhytoPlan, and Beta Glucan an immune system booster. (Note: Tahitian Algae Paste can be used in place of several of these products as it already contains them as ingredients). can also use cyclops, even good quality flake, if the ghosts will eat it.
You can also stock your tank with live mysis and amphipods. Have you tried switching them to frozen?
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islandkoa
Member
I added copepods to my tank as an alternative food source. The copepods seem to be thriving but not sure if the seahorse can catch these quick little boogers. My horse seems to like frozen mysis which i feed to him twice a day.
As a side note, I am looking for a way of reducing his dependency on me having to feed him twice a day so if there are any suggestions. . I am all ears.
As a side note, I am looking for a way of reducing his dependency on me having to feed him twice a day so if there are any suggestions. . I am all ears.
snakeblitz33
Well-Known Member
There's not a single animal out there that won't depend on you to feed it. If you keep it in your house, in an aquarium, locked up you should feed it and take care of it regardless how difficult they are hard to keep.
rykna
Active Member
Originally Posted by pete159
http:///forum/post/2646312
pods are good goby food but they won't keep a seahorse alive.
frozen hikari mysis is good to feed twice a day.
ghost shrimp is not very good.
~make sure you are soaking your frozen mysis in some type of vitamin enhancer...
garlic enhancer is a plus because it helps boost the immune system.
How about some pics of your beauties
http:///forum/post/2646312
pods are good goby food but they won't keep a seahorse alive.
frozen hikari mysis is good to feed twice a day.
ghost shrimp is not very good.
~make sure you are soaking your frozen mysis in some type of vitamin enhancer...
garlic enhancer is a plus because it helps boost the immune system.
How about some pics of your beauties
rykna
Active Member
Originally Posted by Islandkoa http:///forum/post/2645159
I added copepods to my tank as an alternative food source. The copepods seem to be thriving but not sure if the seahorse can catch these quick little boogers. My horse seems to like frozen mysis which i feed to him twice a day.
As a side note, I am looking for a way of reducing his dependency on me having to feed him twice a day so if there are any suggestions. . I am all ears.
There really is no alternitive. That is what makes seahorses one of the most time committing saltwater fish to keep.
~I had 5 years of sw experience under my flippers when I first started keeping seahorses and thought I was ready for seahorses....
~I've kept mainly reef tanks. Flaunting my experience when my gonipora flower pots grew 4 inches while in my care.
~now 3 year with seahorses...and I am still recovering from many fatal mistakes.
There are many species of seahorses that are available. When I decided to keep seahorses I poured over all the different kinds of horses, reasearched habitats, food and care, etc.
Once you've picked out a species, it's much easier to plan the tank. The Kuda's length when mature is 8 inches snout to tail, and therefore does nto require as tall a tank as some of the other species that grow over 12 inches. Seahorses need a tank at least twice the height of their body to be comfortable.
Seahorses have no stomach, just one long intestine, their body takes in what nutrients it can before the food is passed as waste. Water quality is the #1 must in a seahorse tank. Because of their ineffcient digestive tract their waste is double the amount of other fish. With no stomach a seahorse must be fed at least once a day; hence why I brought all my seahorses to thanksgiving vacation at my M&D's...I couldn't find a fish sitter. If left alone for 4 days with out food there is a 99% chance that your seahorse(s) would starve to death, even if it was still alive when you returned home, in it's weakened state seahorses are extremely vunerable disease and stress, and the end result would be death.
This thread is a example of why we caution so much when it comes to keeping seahorses(not that this is you, but a big reason why we ask so many questions). It's not a matter of wanting, it is a matter of responsiblity, with any pet.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/261262/seahorse-foods-and-feeding