i have a 180L tank with come coral 2 seahorses 2 cleaner shrimp a peppermint shrimp and a crdinal fish. i have fed them with frozen baby brine shrimp and have turned off the pump. i have also added some marine snow as i heard they eat allot. i cant find my breeding tank at the moment but i dont even konw how id catch them all anyway! i was mainly wondering how long do i or can i leave the pump off?
most of the fry will die anyway so im not looking to get rid of them im trying to keep asmany as possible.
take care of it and feed them food too……good luck
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This may sound gross but you could sell them to resteraunts. They’re pretty good. As for what to do if you wat to keep them… call the place where you bought them for help.
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you need a predator fish, that is why a seahorse has so many offspring. Just do not get one so big it eats everything in your tank.
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wow you have seahorses- thats awesome! can i have one of the babies-pretty please! hehe. One of my fish had babies years ago and we had to catch them all-which took forever and put them in a special little tank which sits at the top of the water- a breeding tank maybe. If you turn the pump on they will get sucked in there straight away so make sure you dont. hope this helps x
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You can leave the pump on. Even newly born seahorses can swim with remarkable HP (horse power, get it?) and they should be okay as long as they don’t become food for the other fish you have in the tank.
Seahorses are so kewl.
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It would be near impossible to save them all….but is there a way you can put something over the filter intake? like some type of mesh or cloth, so the water will still get through but the babies won’t?
I would just keep feeding the baby brine shrimp and hope for the best. Good luck.
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put em in a diff. tank and then sell em on ebay make lots of money…i will even buy sum from u
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Congrats
I found some great info here for you
http://www.seahorses.de/seahorses.htm
http://www.syngnathid.org/articles/raisingFry.html
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/marinedepotlive/Seahorses.htm
Hope that helps
Good luck
EB
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