Just sharing!

Seahorsekelly69 · Apr 19, 2016

I've been on r2r for some time, but realized I've never shared my seahorses with you all! So, in addition to my reef, I also have a 29g seahorse/macro tank, and 10g fry macro tank. I'm in the process of setting up a 55 that is going to be amazing!
I currently breed erectus, but hope to keep other types soon.

Seahorsekelly69 · Apr 19, 2016

I keep fry in a sterile set up for the first few weeks, until they are trained on frozen. Then, they move to my smaller macro grow out tank

Seahorsekelly69 · Apr 19, 2016

Cheryl was my first success. She's now almost 6 months old

vlangel · Apr 19, 2016

Beautiful seahorses and a beautiful tank for them to live in. Everything is gourgeous!

Seahorsekelly69 · Apr 19, 2016

Thank you! Updated pic of baby tank.

dbl · Apr 19, 2016

Holy wowzers, if that's a word. What beautiful systems you have and great pictures to prove it. Congrats.

SantaMonicaHelp · Apr 20, 2016

Thanks for sharing, great tank, lovely seahorses!!

SF

FishRForMe · Apr 20, 2016

Seahorsekelly69 said:
I keep fry in a sterile set up for the first few weeks, until they are trained on frozen. Then, they move to my smaller macro grow out tank

How do you get them to frozen in a few weeks?

Seahorsekelly69 · Apr 20, 2016

FishRForMe said:
How do you get them to frozen in a few weeks?

I meant 3-6 weeks. I suppose that's more than a few. Lol. Couple tricks I've learned:
1. Start putting a piece of mysis in their tank from day 1 while feeding. Remove it after a few min. That helps them associate the smell of mysis with food.
2. Around week 3, I start putting small pieces of mysis in when I give them live brine. The bubbler keeps it moving, and a lot will accidentally eat it, like it, and be good.
3. soaking mysis in garlic entices them to eat
4. The few stubborn horses who refused mysis after week 6, are cut off brine. Typically if there's ONLY mysis, and the others are eating it, they'll come around. But I never let them go entire day without food. I'd give them live by the end of the day if they just wouldn't eat. I've had very few that simply wouldn't train. And they weren't healthy to begin with. But, my male baby was a stubborn one, and I had to play the cutoff game for a good week before he finally would eat mysis.

Seahorsekelly69 · Apr 20, 2016

The young are getting their markings!!

Seahorsekelly69 · Apr 20, 2016

Cheryl is so darn pretty!

FishRForMe · Apr 20, 2016

Seahorsekelly69 said:
I meant 3-6 weeks. I suppose that's more than a few. Lol. Couple tricks I've learned:
1. Start putting a piece of mysis in their tank from day 1 while feeding. Remove it after a few min. That helps them associate the smell of mysis with food.
2. Around week 3, I start putting small pieces of mysis in when I give them live brine. The bubbler keeps it moving, and a lot will accidentally eat it, like it, and be good.
3. soaking mysis in garlic entices them to eat
4. The few stubborn horses who refused mysis after week 6, are cut off brine. Typically if there's ONLY mysis, and the others are eating it, they'll come around. But I never let them go entire day without food. I'd give them live by the end of the day if they just wouldn't eat. I've had very few that simply wouldn't train. And they weren't healthy to begin with. But, my male baby was a stubborn one, and I had to play the cutoff game for a good week before he finally would eat mysis.

thanks... I'll try that!

Triggreef · Apr 21, 2016

Very cool. One aspect of the hobby I've never got into but someday I may.

Kristi Tinsley · May 19, 2016

Wow! You're tank is beautiful! And your seahorses are gorgeous!!

Triton Marine · May 28, 2016

Your tanks are beautiful! I love your macro selection

reef_grrrl · May 29, 2016

I'm in the process of setting up a 75 gallon hex seahorse macro tank and I hope it looks 1/10th as beautiful as yours!

KrazieKiKi · Jul 13, 2016

Seahorsekelly69 said:
I've been on r2r for some time, but realized I've never shared my seahorses with you all! So, in addition to my reef, I also have a 29g seahorse/macro tank, and 10g fry macro tank. I'm in the process of setting up a 55 that is going to be amazing!
I currently breed erectus, but hope to keep other types soon.

Do you dose your tank for your macros? I'm starting to incorporate more macros into my tank and I want to make sure there's plenty of nutrients aside from what the ponies put off. Thanks!