Time to share my seahorse fry.

[Big Smelly fish]

 

[Big Smelly fish]

 

[exnisstech]

These are awesome. I've contemplated them once but from what I've read they need lower temps than I could provide. What do you do with all of them once they are grown?

 

[Big Smelly fish]

These are awesome. I've contemplated them once but from what I've read they need lower temps than I could provide. What do you do with all of them once they are grown?

Sell them, I also have them in a local store and they sell them.

 

[Big Smelly fish]

I’m going to be taking a break from them until next year. They require lots of my time. While I have young fry I can’t take even a few day trip.

 

[Andresnyc93]

That’s a beautiful looking fry! The way they move and swim makes it look like they’re all swaying dancing. Great job.

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Oh, I miss my seahorses! Thank you for sharing!

 

[HawaiiTime]

When you had your first batch of seahorses born, what kind of a tank set up did you place them in and how did you transfer them?

 

[Big Smelly fish]

I keep my mating pairs in a regular tank. Hong on back filter and shimmer. They alway seem to have them early morning, at least the

erectus do.reidi were different and it was in early evening it seemed. I stated by siphoning the fry out. Now I just net.
The tanks are like in photos. They will be in the bowl inside another tank. I drilled the bowls and placed screen so water can escape. The water is fed into the bowl by aqua lifters. Creates a rotating motion . It’s simple and harder to explain here. They will stay in this set up to treat formalin on days 1-3 and five. Then moved to 20 gallon long. Then to tubs

 

[LRT]

Super awesome!

 

[Big Smelly fish]

Super awesome!

Haven’t seen you in awhile.
Thanks

 

[LRT]

Your welcome sir its nice to be back and get a little real life breathing room. Wife is going to love this thread! Scared to show her when she gets back lol

 

[HawaiiTime]

Good morning all.

I figured I would share a video of my seahorse fry. I have kept seahorses since my early days of reef keeping and had them in my first reef. They always amaze me .
I’m no expert when it comes to them and in early 2000’s I started raising H reidi , they where a lot of work. I was younger then and did mine all the work. So last year I decided to start breeding erectus. Easier then the reidi. The first back was from a young male and where supper small. I lost them to bacteria. These in the video were larger and did much better. I raise then in my bowl set up for approx 1 week then move to 20 gallon long tank for a few weeks. Then I moved them in to a set up made with muck tubs and a sump with live rock. The tubs stsy super clean and easy to do water changes. These are nearing five weeks. I did lose a few early on but have over fifty now With a younger batch of about 80 to a hundred in the 20 long ready to move to a tub. Like I said I’m no expert and know at any point something can happen and I could lose them. Hopefully not.

I’m not having any luck uploading videos, sorry

Do you sell any of your babies?

 

[Big Smelly fish]

Do you sell any of your babies?

Sorry I missed your message . I do sell them , but shipping is limited depending on location because of all the issues with Ups and fedx

 

[Big Smelly fish]

 

[HawaiiTime]

Sorry I missed your message . I do sell them , but shipping is limited depending on location because of all the issues with Ups and fedx

I am located in Washington State. Coastal side.
I am loving the look of your spiky seahorses. I would be interested to know about how much you would sell them for? When do you expect to have a few juveniles (unsexed) available? I currently have two males and one sub adult female to keep them company.

 

[HawaiiTime]

I love the nice long spikes on the one!