What Should I Feed my SeaHorse ???

ivasawajin

Member
i have a 10cm black seahorse in a 110G tank with around 20 small- medium fish ... but he wont eat any thing ??? what should i feed him and i have a wave maker ( a very small one ) will the wave hurt hin ???? what and HOW should i feed him ????
 

rispa

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It depends if it is a wild caught seahorse or captive bred. If it is captive bred, it has probably been trained to eat frozen food, so you would feed it Hikari mysis and PE mysis. If it is wild caught it needs to be quarantined and dewormed and will probably need live food. You can sometimes train them to eat frozen food, but for now you will need either live mysis, or live brine shrimp. For the brine shrimp you will need to enrich them by gut loading them, aka feeding them very nutritious food, before feeding them to the seahorse.
Now as for the fish in your tank, you may have a problem. Some fish will nip at seahorses, some will eat them, some will eat all the food before the seahorse has had it's fill, etc. If you have corals the seahorse may bother the corals, or the corals may sting the seahorse, or even eat the seahorse. Anemones are always a no no. Check out THIS guide for more info. Oh and there is a forum on that same site that is dedicated to seahorses and has people who are very knowledgeable and will be able to help you sort everything out before it's too late.
By the way how long has he not been eating? If it's over a week his system has probably shut down and it's too late :( For feeding you would just dump the live food in. For frozen, you melt the food in salt water that has been refrigerated, then let it warm to room temperature, then pour it in. If it is the PE mysis, I would recommend much smaller cubes and rinsing the mysis before feeding, unless you have corals or some other critter that would enjoy the little particles. Good luck :) and keep us updated. Also there are some great people on here who are way more knowledgeable than I am, so I would keep checking back for their responses.
 

ivasawajin

Member
i use to go to a fish store ( a saltwater fish store ) and this sea horse was there for 3 weeks just hapily moving in a 2M tank , the tank had around 25 corals and 2 3 fishesh but the seahorse was fine , and the owner said i didint even needed to feed him , thats why i bought him cuz u thuoght how easy is that ... anyway , i never see him eat anything excp0et from the live rick and i have some anemones but no corals and when i throw grunels at him even close to his mouth h e wont eat it .
 
i guess his a Expedable . unlike the movie where the heroes actually survive
 

rispa

Member
They can survive for a while without food, but that doesn't mean that they don't need food. I'd say get some mysis asap, or at least some brine shrimp and feed the seahorse. Since you have a large aquarium, there was probably something or another living in the rocks that he could eat, but unless you have brine or mysis shrimp living in your aquarium, your seahorse will need proper food, while using whatever is in the live rock as a snack. Also keep an eye on the other fish to make sure they don't bother the seahorse. Also be careful about the anemones.
 

teresaq

Active Member
please read thru the first three posts in this forum. Seahorses are a species only fish. It is in a tank it has no business in. It prob isnt eatting frozen food, so you need to feed it live mysis or gut loaded brine or small gut loaded live ghost shrimp. it prob isnt going to be able to get enough food with the amount of other fish you have in with it.
You should think about setting up a seperate tank for it or returning it.
T
 

rispa

Member
An idea if you really want to keep the seahorses might be to temporarily divide off part of the tank for it, then get a proper seahorse and and start cycling it :) I'm actually rather curious about this particular idea and would like to hear some input from the experts
 
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