Dwarf seahorses

[timmyrules]

Hi reefers! I’ve been keeping lined seahorses for a little while. I was on a website one day and I saw dwarf seahorses that were for sale. After looking into them a little bit I decided I would like to get some after I return from a vacation in late September. I just have a few questions…what do they eat?…I heard mixed information on what they eat, some places said baby brine shrimp, others said copepods, and another said live brine shrimp….where would be good places to get the food?….if at all possible, I would like to feed frozens, that’s what I currently feed all my seahorses….would it be possible to feed dwarf seahorses frozens?…any and all advice is welcome and appreciated :)

 

[Ben's Pico Reefing]

Some dwarf seahorses are already eating frozen depending on where you get as some places do tank raise. You can also train them over but will take patience and some timing. They will eat pods, baby brine, anything small enough to fit in their mouths just like your others.

There is a lot more info than I have given and plenty available info as well. Some opinions may very lol

 

[timmyrules]

Thanks for the reply! Do you know where I could get them already eating frozens?

 

[Ben's Pico Reefing]

Thanks for the reply! Do you know where I could get them already eating frozens?

Biota I believe possibly, but you can search online to see. Also shoot an email to verify. Get everything in writing lol. There are several people on here I'm sure that have actual experience with this. I am not one of them lol. But what your asking is possible/available.

 

[NaCl addict]

Hi reefers! I’ve been keeping lined seahorses for a little while. I was on a website one day and I saw dwarf seahorses that were for sale. After looking into them a little bit I decided I would like to get some after I return from a vacation in late September. I just have a few questions…what do they eat?…I heard mixed information on what they eat, some places said baby brine shrimp, others said copepods, and another said live brine shrimp….where would be good places to get the food?….if at all possible, I would like to feed frozens, that’s what I currently feed all my seahorses….would it be possible to feed dwarf seahorses frozens?…any and all advice is welcome and appreciated :)

From the research I have completed, dwarf seahorses do best with freshly hatched brine. Alyssa's Seahorse Savvy has a lot of info and so does Bulk Reef Supply on successfully keeping dwarf seahorses.

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

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[animateash]

Did you ever find any sources for captive bred dwarves? Alyssa's is the only place I am aware of and while I support CB efforts, I find them to be prohibitively expensive from that shop. Genuinely curious if there are other places raising them because I have a theory that the "spinning" illness affecting other fish in the Keys is affecting the wc stock from some of the main suppliers. I've seen the same behaviors and ultimate death in recent shipments. On keeping--I've been keeping them since 2017 and would have to say that I've never found any, wc or cb, willing to eat frozen or refrigerated foods. They only want fresh bbs and copepods, and do very well on them as long as you are also enriching the bbs properly. I made a lot of mistakes early on when enriching, and paid for it. Also worth noting they require a high volume of bbs per day --enough to make a 10 gallon tank seem like a snow globe. In case this hasn't been said in any of your research so far, you need a tank just for dwarves, NO tank mates and no reef rock. I've been in FB groups where people have horror stories of inverts coming out of live rock and eating them.