Pico Perfect2012-02-19 22:09:00 +0000 #1
Size: 1-1/2"
Caribbean Dwarf Seahorse. Eating Ova very well.
^ Referring to Nutramar Ova. They will probably also accept Cyclopeeze and Ocean Nutrition Baby Nauplii (canned) if it is properly introduced.
BOOM! And they said it couldn't be done.... I still have that nagging voice in my head yelling "live nauplii & live nauplii only!!!" NOPE not this time baby. Not this time.
rayjay2012-02-19 22:14:18 +0000 #2
It hasn't been done in the LONG term.
See how many you have left after a year with no live food.
WallysWorld2012-02-19 22:32:30 +0000 #3
I would think that if they ate cyclopeeze they would be much better off than eating live brine shrimp, no? Just my two cents.
Funny I am reading this I just saw some pygmys at my LFS and was thinking about trying them. I have plenty of bbs anyway and cyclopeeze.
Bluemon2012-02-19 23:05:45 +0000 #4
Cyclopeeze is way more nutritious than bbs....
ann832012-02-19 22:37:14 +0000 #5
It isn't a matter of what is nutritious... they fail to take the frozen in adequate quantities long term. Many frozen/prepared foods would be better than the artemia, especially since so many people fail to enrich properly, but dwarf seahorses seem pickier than other species. Just like they don't tend to eat artemia with the same gusto that they eat shrimp naupli, they don't seem to have the appetite for frozen long term. Seahorses, sometimes even the larger species, will stubbornly and persistently eat tiny live foods that don't meet their energy requirements, passing up on foods more appropriate but less "appetizing", and will lose weight and waste away doing so.
I would think it would be silly to discourage anyone from trying to offer a variety of foods to their seahorses. But, when going into it, they should be prepared for the fact that they might need to feed artemia (and therefore not be someone who lacks the time and/or interest to do so), that they should be prepared to closely monitor the quantity of frozen each seahorse is eating and their body mass (sometimes very hard in dwarves) so they don't starve to death, and be prepared to also monitor water quality closely, since the small volumes dwarves are usually kept in can foul quickly, and prepared foods foul water much worse than live.
rayjay2012-02-20 00:22:12 +0000 #6
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Originally Posted by WallysWorld
Funny I am reading this I just saw some pygmys at my LFS and was thinking about trying them.
That would really be something if they had pygmy seahorses as I believe they are even hard for public aquariums to get to survive.
They need a specific type of gorgonian where their natural habitat is to survive.
I'd bet more on mislabelling of the seahorses they have which means they know nothing or next to nothing about seahorses and shouldn't be selling them.
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