Have you tried the vacuum container trick to rehydrate?Nice! How is it in terms of fouling the water with that liquid suspension?
I've gotten mine to be on a 100% freeze dried mysis diet. The problem is it takes a long time for them to soak to the point where they don't float anymore. During that time it leeches off a lot of discoloration. When I try feeding it to them while they're still floating on the surface, the seahorses sometimes swallow too much air and have issues with their buoyancy for a couple hours.
Seemed pretty clean to meNice! How is it in terms of fouling the water with that liquid suspension?
I've gotten mine to be on a 100% freeze dried mysis diet. The problem is it takes a long time for them to soak to the point where they don't float anymore. During that time it leeches off a lot of discoloration. When I try feeding it to them while they're still floating on the surface, the seahorses sometimes swallow too much air and have issues with their buoyancy for a couple hours.
Yup tested and works using a regular syringe too. Problem is I can't auto feed that way, which is what I'm trying to solve.Have you tried the vacuum container trick to rehydrate?
Someone gave me a new food to try today. It’s mysis shrimp in a liquid suspension that’s shelf stable until opened and needs refrigeration after opening. This is exactly what I want for my mini fridge automated feeder! Tried it this morning and at least some of the seahorses at it right away. They didn’t like the mysis feast, maybe some sort of smell from whatever they use for preservation in mysis feast? I like that it is made with PE mysis, the new stuff is smaller pieces, but I can now feed 2-3 times a day without doing anything!
I did not try that, but also it wouldn’t work for my use case since I’m trying to have a dosing pump in a mini fridge pump it straight into the tank. Good to know tho and makes sense some of that could be rinsed off. Thanks!I've always encouraged people to let it sit in tank water for a little bit first. The preservatives are just acids. What keeps it in suspension are just carbon sources for your tank.
Absolutely love this!While visiting the Frost Aquarium in Miami with family, my son got excited about seeing seahorses and wife asked if I could put them in my tank (obviously not). I took that as a green light to set up a new tank This will be a mangrove and macroalgae specific tank with seahorses and invertebrates like sexy shrimp.
Equipment:
Tank: IM 20 peninsula
Searched long for this as the dimensions are perfect for where the tank sits.
Lighting: Twinstar 600EA IV
Substrate: Miracle mud and oolite sand. Love that I can have sugar fine sand in this low flow environment.
Other: Autoaqua smart nano ATO, generic Axium style DC return pump
Got it started with some macroalgae from @Hella_Salty650 and mangroves from @Srt4eric . Tank is going through massive ugly phase but plants are thriving! I'm dosing cheatogro for iron, magnesium to help the mangroves expel salt, and KNO3 and KH2PO4 since there's no bioload yet to provide nitrate and phosphate.
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