Baby seahorses!!!

[Shane Tesser]

Very nice Jen, thank you for posting.

[SilverTongue]

Ohhhhhhhh Those are soooooooooooooo sweet thanks for posting them!

[Clownfishie]

You're very welcome!

These guys are just so damned cute -- definitely not easy to raise though -- out of that batch of babies (probably close to 300), I only managed to raise one to adulthood. It's so rewarding when you do though!

Good luck with yours Youkai

[snakedude_03]

good luck Youkai!

[Youkai]

Thanks for the support guys!
So far, there is one baby still alive out of the small group. We got it out of the tank, and it's doing well so far. Even after a run in with a bristle worm.
It eats like a little pig, and shows no signs of slowing down. Two more males pregnant, too. XD

[Youkai]

By the way Jen - those pictures were great. How did you set the babies up?

[beyowulf]

oh my god those are soooo cute!! They kinda look like mosquito larvae...

I've heard from several sources that seahorses are really hard to take care of....what do you guys do with yours to keep them so healthy?

[Clownfishie]

Hey Youkai -- glad to hear that you've got a survivor Just keep him eating, and I'm sure he'll do great...

I had the babies set up in a 5 gallon tank, with one of those old fashioned corner filters (the current produced isn't strong at all, so it seemed to work fine with them). I was suctioning crap off the bottom and doing partial water changes every day or 2... and feeding the babies at least twice a day with newly hatched brine.

Beyowulf -- the key to keeping seahorses is to buy them Captive Bred. You get a healthy animal that is usually guaranteed to be eating frozen shrimp (mysis is best). Wild caught animals usually pass away within weeks, or months at the most due to sickness or starvation. Many will refuse to touch frozen food, and sometimes finding live food for them is almost impossible.
Once you've got CB seahorse though, they're really not that difficult to keep, as long as you make sure to maintain quality water conditions for them, and feed them at least once a day.
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask Seahorses are amazing....

[Youkai]

::hangs head in shame::
Okay...I actually have a few WC ones. Four of them, to be exact. They are all eating VERY well on frozen mysis, and the oldest one I've had for...about 10 months. It was purchased as an adult. The other three I've had a just a few months less then that. One of the males that had babies was one of the WC animals. They're all plump (as far as seahorses go) active, eat well, breeding...in all honesty, they are doing as well as the CB ones.
I've had a ton of people ask me what I'm doing to have them do so well. And I honestly don't know.
The tank is a nice established reef tank. I'm not doing anything extra, besides hand feeding 2X daily. :/

Oh...and the baby I mentioned has probably grown 50%, and continues to spend all day eating live baby brine shrimp.

[PetCrazy]

Aw, Baby Sea Horses are so adorable!

BTW, Congrats Youkai on the babies.

wow those pics are aswome! tnx for sharing