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It's an empty box, any box that light doesn't go through. I used a piece of fence post from Home Depot. You can use the box your Grand Mother keeps hair pins in or her teeth. I used the fence post because they also sell end caps. I used one on the bottom and I cut one out for the top. It holds...

I didn't raise Dwarf Seahorses, I used to raise full size seahorses like the ones here which I collected in the Atlantic. The female is transferring eggs to the male here in my reef. I raised those fry and one more generation on just brine shrimp. I hatched the shrimp and grew them as the...

We just came back from a week out in the east end of Long Island in Amaganset which is about 75 miles from my house. We had sole access to a beach house on the Atlantic that someone we know owns but was in Colorado Our Daughter, Son N Law and two or our Grand Kids also came. I did find a...

This is my vacation feeder, (almost) When I go on vacation I get a girl to fish sit. I don't want her to hatch shrimp, deal with worms or cut clams so I freeze individual, daily portions of food in old film containers. Film was like Scotch tape but pictures stick to it. Any small containers...

Hard to get a picture of the trough because there is a light right over it. This is from the side of the algae trough. The hard bodied tube worms are all over the place and I thinned them out yesterday

I just noticed something in my tank that is never discussed. No one thinks of the benefits, or detriments. No one has used these things for any reason that I know of and if your tank is a new one of only a few years you probably don't have any. What am I talking about? I better write it before I...

Yesterday I noticed that my tank was getting dimmer. At first I thought I was getting cataracts, but it was definately the tank. I have perfect vision and can spot a Supermodel a few football fields away. I raised my DIY LED lighting and noticed that about 8 LEDs were out. So much for them...

I am loving this new automatic baby brine feeder but not as much as the pipefish and mandarins. They think they died and went to fish heaven. They sit on the thing all day and never leave it except for bathroom breaks. The multi banded pipe and dragon face pipe seem to be a couple and apparently...

Do I look worried? Dance I let it put some eggs in once a day. It's as much as I normally hatch every day anyway.

A better video

I took a video of the thing working. The mandarins also hang out on it but they are afraid of me and run away as soon as I get near the tank. You can see the male mandarin to the left at the start but he leaves when he sees the camera because he got up on the wrong side of the tank today and...

I can take a video, or you can put your face near your monitor and move your head back and forth. Dance OK, I will try to do a video. Here is a video of the other feeder in that spot. I will put this one back when I get home.

The first batch of eggs hatched in the feeder and the pipefish and mandarins are all over it like a cheap suit. I love it. There is a dragon face pipe laying on the thing but he is white so hard to see, then there is a multi stripe pipe and the pregnant mandarin.

My bangai cardinals finally grew enough to do the mating dance but that is not an accomplishment with bangai's as they spawn like guppies and it is hard to have a pair of them not spawn. I will probably not try to raise the fry as I am never able to catch them. I built a new baby brine feeder...

Those little "in tank" brine shrimp hatcheries all work on the same principal and I have designed a few larger ones for my 100 gallon tank. It is simple to make such things, but I needed an automatic one that will also dispense the eggs into the device twice a day with no help from me, and keep...

Not only are they suitable, they are almost a necessity. Most pipefish will not eat dead food and it is silly to "teach" them to eat dead food unless you want to give them a piece of dead food every 5 minutes as they are supposed to eat. I cringe when I hear people are trying to feed pipefish...

To update my tank, all is well. The mandarins are still spawning, the 2 pipefish are doing nicely as is the possum wrasse. I would like to get a mate for him (or her) the copperband is gorgeous if not a little big. 2 bananafish are well but one has a little pop eye which I could cure in a...

Hatching is easy, don't be a sissy. Just build a hatchery and your seahorses will love you forever

You don't need something as elaborate for seahorses. I hatch shrimp and separate the eggs in this every day for my pipefish, it just doesn't do it automatically. I only need this when I go away for a while.