[AquaticLife] How do I care for this seahorse?
The most important aspect of keeping seahorses is in feeding them good quality food, and lots of it. Live foods are much better for them than frozen, as there are more nutrients and because they hunt by sight. It can take a long time to train a seahorse to eat dead food. They are slow feeders, so won’t be able to compete for food in a tank with active and more aggressive fish.
Live brine shrimp is poor quality food for seahorses unless it has been enriched. Enriching brine shrimp is a rather long process, and includes feeding the brine shrimp algaes along with vitamins and minerals for. Better live foods are mysis and river shrimp, and another feeder shrimp you can sometimes get is called the chameleon shrimp. (Or if you live by the ocean, small crustateans like rockhoppers and side swimmers work well!)
An adult seahorse will consume 30 - 50 mysis shrimp a day. This is because they have a short intestinal track so much of the food is passed through undigested. They can eat foods that are bigger than there snout, as their snout will expand some.
Good luck with your new pets!
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Cheryl wrote:
> I just got given a small seahorse. it’s about 2 inches long, if even. > he’s in my tank and doing fine. what do I do with him? like what does > he eat, how do I feed him. he does est frozen brine shrimp right? > > >
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