H. reidi rearing log - Day 5

[FelipeBastos]

My H. reidi had babes last friday morning. I did not catch the release, and had to fish the few survivors out of the sump. I keep a sponge there for pod reproduction and that saved 9 baby seahorses.

The same day, Friday, 3 died. Ever since then, the 6 left are still alive and eating.

Having only 6 to care for is a great advantage as I am bale to ensure eachone is eating properly. At first, I kept them all in a 600 mL tupperware container, on a shelf above a 12G nano I had setup weeks earlier. This set up allowed me for constant watr changes and multiple daily feedings of newly hatched BBS.

Now I have moved them into a 5.5 G tank, only about 1/3 of the way full. Besides the babies, there is nothing in there besides a couple species f caulerpa, 2 tiny rocks holding the plants, a fake plnt and a small screen they can use to hitch onto. One of them was in fact hitched this morning, which is a good sign.

I have started hatching BBS and refrigerating them to slow down growth and ensure they are small enough for thebabies to eat them still.

I decided to wait until now to write because the first barrier to crack when attempting to raise seahorses is 5 days. I am less than 6 hours away from that goal ( estimated time of birth), so I wanted to get this here. I will contnue updting as things move along.

Oh, one more thing. The dad is pregant again.

Ciao,

Felipe

[Uploadead]

Sounds good. Keep us informed! You get lotsa ca$h from it Maybe send the profits to meeeeeeeeeeee?

[FelipeBastos]

I woudn't sell them first of all. At leats not the first batch.
Second, they won't mature and be juveniles for a few months. they have to survive first.

Raising seahorses is tough stuff. Definatley no the best get rich quick scheme.

Felipe

[pledosophy]

Lot's of cash that is hilarious.

Good Luck Felipe. How are they doing on the bbs?

[gussy]

No updates?

[FelipeBastos]

Sadly,

they all died slowly, the last one on day 12.

I have been unable to figure out the cause.

There was still enough BBS in there for them to eat,a nd one, the strongest looking, was eating until hours before its ultimate demise.

The male is once again pregant, and I am trying to be better prepared this time around. I will continue to post updated here.

Felipe

[gussy]

Water quality?

[FelipeBastos]

The water changes were happening ona constant basis. 5-10%, 2-3 times daily.

And they wre in a 5G tank, only 6 of them.

Maybe if the BBS polluted the tank, hat I can see happening.

[gussy]

Sorry...don't forget to post when you get the next batch.