Help with Seahorses and amphipods

[Luis]

Hi.

I have two Seahorses in one of my reeftanks, I got them because I read they feed on live brine shrimp. I hatched and enriched some but they didn't eat them, I tried with newly hatched and adult brine shrimp without any success, then I try with some Amphipods (gramarus), I have a tank that is plenty of them and the seahorses really liked them, they just got crazy! after a week the amphipod population has decreased and now I'm worry about my friends.... I've been looking for amphipods in the internet and I found a site that sell amphipods for almost $1.00 each!!!! that's a still.... I want to ask you guys if you know a place to buy them for less or maybe I can buy some from you I'm living in LA area and I can go and get them. I'm really desperate. I don't want my seahorses to starve.

By the way, Don't you have any idea to train them to eat brineshrimp?

Thanks for your help and have a great weekend.

 

[Anonymous]

pod for sale http://aquaculturestore.com/products.html#miscswplank

Everything you ever wanted to know about Seahorses http://www.seahorse.org

Were they Wild Caught or bred? If bred, they are waiting for you to buy them some frozen mysis shrimp instead of giving them live shrimp they actually have to chase.

 

[danmhippo]

I would assume you got the wild caught SH. You need patience, lots of patience to train them into frozen feeds.

In the mean time, you can get another bucket to stock some freshwater ghost shrimp (airpump and water change is critical to keeping them alive). Freshwater ghost shrimp is nutritious for SH, and will stay alive in sea water for about 30min-6 hours.

You can also contact Steve at Pasadena Tropical (PTF Pets) @ 626-449-4987. He can get ahold of saltwater ghost shrimp. That will stay alive in saltwater for weeks. Actually, I don't think they are ghost shrimp, but instead, juvenile of table shrimps, commonly sold to shrimp farms. But who cares, they live in saltwater, stay alive, can find food on their own, and provide nutritious meal to SHs.

I don't know how much he sells them for now. Call him first. Tell him it's Jimmy all the way from Taiwan referred you. He'll know.

 

[Anonymous]

don't take this the wrong way, but buying first, then asking- is putting the cart before the horse :?

brine shrimp alone will probably not keep seahorses doing well, long term

inwall75's recommended link to the seahorse site is an excellent one

good luck

 

[fishfanatic2]

Brine shrimp are not a healthful food for sea horses.

Seahorses do best in a species tank without any competition for food/amphipods, unless it's something like a small neon goby.

You should have a constant supply of pods living in the tank or refugium, but I don't know any sources for pods/if the guy is selling them for $1.00 each then he's drunk!

Like I said above seahorses need a constant supply of live food/a few feedings a day might not cut it.

Good luck!

 

[Rays]

You may get the saltwater type Ghost shrimp here http://www.aquaculturestore.com/swinverts.html or here http://www.livebrineshrimp.com/ you can get copepod cultures from here but are expensive http://www.seafarm.com/ brine shrimp alone are all but filler, but if you gut feed them(soak them overnite) with some selco or algae paste obtained here http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/ you will sustain them long enough until you get some of the other feeds. As stated above they should be in a species only tank, I wish you luck.
Ray