would you just top it up as it evaporates? wouldn’t that leave all the nitrites/ammonia in the water? not too sure how you would go about this, they’re too tiny to pick out or anything…
thanks 
with all due respect, i think i would know more about fish/sea monkeys (which are actually different to brine shrimp) than the pet stores around here…
I want to get 2 in a 2 gallon tank(yes a 2 gallon because when I was doing reasearch it said that in larger tanks it is hard for them to find their food)and yes I know how much work it takes to keep seahorses and in a small tank I have to keep up with ammonia, nitrate, and nitite levels(including that I can’t use live rock to cycle my aquarium) and I also know they are very fussy eaters including the ones that are wild caught and please I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t be mean to me I already had a stressful day. Also they will have this in the tank:
Decor
1 Littlest Pet Shop Aquarium Figures
1 Top Fin® Pink Plastic Plant Variety Pack
food
1 8oz. bag with live adult brine shrimp(which i will keep in a 1-1.5 gallon tank)also the seahorses will have a turbo snail as a tankmate to keep the 2 gallon
here is the 2 gallon tank they will be in: http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2752291
I will be using this site to help me with dwarves http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/dwarfguide/dwarfguide.shtml
hello?these are dwarf seahorses there are critters in live rock which harm them and the tankmates you suggestes will also harm/kill my dwarf seahorses
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have a 45 gallon tank that is running really well. All my parameters are normal for a tropical tank. Not too much ammonia, nitrites or nitrates, good stable PH, good temp, clear water… the tank has been up and running a couple months. My fish get fed bloodworms, brine, shrimp pellets, algea pellets for the bottom feeders and crisps.
I have
8 adult tiger barbs
1 adult rainbow shark
3 adult dwarf gourami
5 green cory (3 adults and two albino babies)
1 upside down catfish
No one fights, theres lots of decorations and plants so they are always swimming in and out and playing, everyone seems perfectly happy.
I had a friend come over who said my trank was overstocked. Is he right?
Also, how do I know if I am overfeeding the fish? Whenever I come up to the tank all of the fish swarm up to the top like carp they act so hungry, and will even come up and nip at my fingers if I put them in the tank. One person told me to only feed an amount as big as their eye, but then someone else said to let them eat as much food as they want for 5 minutes then stop feeding them.
Let me tell you, these guys SCARF food down- I will put two peices of frozen bloodworms, a pinch of crisps, an algea pellet and some sinking shrimp pellets, and they attack it like they havent eaten in a month, and it will be gone in moments. If they keep coming back for more, do I keep feeding them? How do I know when to stop?
Thanks for any help!
Rainbows do not grow over 6”, and most top out at 5. Mine is already 4.5” and is several years old. Even if he hits 6” that will not be too large for my tank. He is not going to get huge.
Thanks for the info- I think I will take the baby albino cory out and maybe one of the gourami and transfer them to a new tank, just in case.
Filter is a biofilter 100gallon filter running on med/high, ammonia/nitrIte levels are at 0, Nitrates are at 10 I think. PH is 7, on the dot, temp is 79. The crisps are definitely for fish, LOL, not human crackers… its just regular tropical fish food but they are small bits that sink instead of flakes that float. They call them crisps, I dont know why 
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We have to do an experiment in my biology class to determine the effect a variable on the hatching of brine shrimp; we can choose any variable we want. My group is going to test the effect of nutrients (mainly nitrogen), and at first we thought we would using plant fertilizer (without any poisons of course). Now I’m considering using ammonia, and I’m wondering if that would be a bad idea because I have to bring it to school. I don’t care about the effect it will have on the eggs because, well, it’s an experiment, and the whole point is to see what happens. It’s not dangerous is it (unless you drink it or something of course)? The odor is pretty localized and won’t spread through the whole room, right?
Well, I don’t care if they die as long as they hatch. 
And the salinity was an obvious variable that a lot of people are doing, so we didn’t want to do that. I also think light would be harder to control. Thanks for the replies!
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would you just top it up as it evaporates? wouldn’t that leave all the nitrites/ammonia in the water? not too sure how you would go about this, they’re too tiny to pick out or anything…
thanks
with all due respect, i think i would know more about fish/sea monkeys (which are actually different to brine shrimp) than the pet stores around here…