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Seahorse raising gone bad ,so bad its funny!

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Whitebird1

I expected to read a nice article about captive bred seahorses for sale and starts out good, then they all died, next batch all dead Then the die off countdown! I had to stop reading it! So bad its funny. http://www.aquatictech.com/captive.html
Warning may include content some may find offensive!!!!
Couple of Quotes!!
September 9, 2001 They have been dropping like fleas.
08/09/04 several batches later no survivors from previous batches
Six of the smallest ones dead today. They are getting stuck on the outflow screen.
Somehow one of the reidi managed to get out of the water and dry up.

this is so bad im still cracking up!!!
 
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REEFLECTIONS

it's like a tragig dramedy, whitebird, i will not admit to laughing at this debacle, but..... i think at some point i would just stop trying
 
JohnS_323

JohnS_323

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Geeze, I can only hope that since the last post is from December 2005 that the guy finally gave up. What a horror show!
 
panmanmatt

panmanmatt

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That is extremely common. They are easy to bred but raising them is the hard part. Were it easy we'd be seeing a lot more numbers of captive bred specimens available.
 
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REEFLECTIONS

i'm seeing more and more that the moral of this story is that sea horses are best left to the fish keeper that wants to be a specialist in the species.... not for the average guy that thinks one would "look cool" in the tank...
 
panmanmatt

panmanmatt

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REEFLECTIONS said:
i'm seeing more and more that the moral of this story is that sea horses are best left to the fish keeper that wants to be a specialist in the species.... not for the average guy that thinks one would "look cool" in the tank...
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They aren't any different than anything else we keep in our tanks. Meet their requirements and you'll have years of enjoyment out of them.

I can't keep any SPS alive to save my life so what all you stick heads see as easy is an impossible task for me.
 
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calaxa

I don't view his post as being tragic at all. He was able to keep the parents alive and breeding for several years. Raising the young was the difficult part. It sounds like he just needed a lesson on how to raise brine/rotifers. My brine crashes often as well (mostly cause of overfeeding). Feeding a 5 gallon tub is tricky. Too little they starve, too much water gets polluted. It's reason why I am going to move to a 100G stock tank for phyto/zooplankton.
 
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