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I am planning to become a seahorse owner and am in the process (over the next year or so) of creating a happy home for them. Currently I just have a fish-only saltwater tank but I am considering adding a refugium (potentially a hang-on?) where I can breed copepods both for my current clown fish and for my planned seahorses. However, I\’ve heard conflicting opinions about adult seahorses and copepods, one school being that they are grazers and having snacks available is excellent, the other being that I shouldn\’t give my frozen-food-trained adults seahorses live copepods as they will get snobby about eating the frozen food. Any advice?
I apologize for my neophyte question but I really want to do this right.
Thanks,
KesHi Kes,
Welcome to the board!!
I have never had my CB frozen trained Oceanrider seahorses refuse frozen after eating live. I have gone away on vacations for up to 6 weeks with a neighbor feeding only live red volcanic shrimp and when I came home they went right back to frozen without a problem. Of course there are no guarantees in life and I suppose there is a possibility that you could get a spoiled finicky eater but in general most of the time these guys eat very very well.
Many of us keep live rock in our tanks and there are many folks who keep their seahorses in reef tanks with refugiums and abundant supplies of pods. Their horses do fine eating a staple diet of frozen mysis and snacking on pods. I would not worry about that.
HTH,
Leslie
kes,
My seahorse was wild caught ( I bought not knowing that) and would only eat live feed. We used mostly red volcano shrimp which she relished, although live mysids, brine and glass shrimp were also used. We introduced some copepods and peppermint shrimp, snails and micro serpent ?
stars. All dissappeared, some sooner than others. When our seahorse died there was an explosion of copepods. They were covering all the surfaces of the glass.
We’ve intrduced fish to the tank and have the copepods under control once again.
Hope this helps some.
llovelessPost edited by: lloveless, at: 2007/06/26 10:20
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