Breeding
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Help! My Seahorse Just Had Babies!
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: 12/10/2012
You just walked by your tank to discover dozens, if not hundreds of tiny seahorses drifting around your aquarium. These miniature copies of the adults caught you off guard, and now you’re not sure what to do.
In the immortal words of Douglas Adams; Don’t Panic! This guide will get you through the critical first few days of attempting to rear your newborn seahorses. Continue reading
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Foods for Breeding Syngnathids
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: 09/18/2012
Seahorses and their syngnathid relatives provide some interesting challenges raising from birth. Although they produce larger young than many marine species, they often ignore foods that have been the standard for raising marine fish. They must be supplied live food … Continue reading
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First Rearing of the Hawaiian Seahorse, Hippocampus fisheri at the Waikiki Aquarium
By Karen Brittain
| Date posted: 07/15/2012
Encouraged by success raising H. erectus, the Waikiki Aquarium decided to attempt the captive culture of the “Hawaiian” seahorse H. fisheri collected off the leeward coast of Oahu. Surprisingly, we found this to be much more of a challenge than they had expected. Continue reading
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Seahorse Fry System Build
By Dan Underwood
| Date posted: 10/23/2011
Dan Underwood of Seahorse Source shows us how to make a scaled down version of a professional rearing system for seahorse fry. Continue reading
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Breeding Dwarf Seahorses
By Rodrigo Flores
| Date posted: 09/26/2007
The one species I had not had and that I wanted was the Dwarf Seahorse, Hippocampus zosterae. So at the beginning of spring I ordered 20 Seahorses all for my own. I set them up in one 40-gallon Eclipse tank with 2 biowheels and I put the intake in a Hydrosponge so the horses would not get sucked up. Continue reading
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A Scalable Method of Raising Hippocampus erectus
By Dan Underwood
| Date posted: 11/16/2004
Forward I have been asked by several people to write an article about our fry raising methods with H. erectus fry. Initially I was hesitant. I would have preferred to have proven success and attained some personal goals with the … Continue reading
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Raising Seahorse Fry: The Fish Bowl Method
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: 04/03/2003
The system I use for raising Hippocampus reidi fry is a modified pseudokreisel. Kreisels and pseudokreisels are tanks with a circular water flow most often used for keeping jellyfish. For H. reidi, and other pelagic seahorse fry prone to air snicking, … Continue reading
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It’s Rodeo time, Hippocampus erectus style!
By Ed Curran
| Date posted: 02/19/2003
My fascination with seahorses began a long time ago, it all started when I was a boy reading the classifieds in Field and Stream, an ad selling dwarf seahorses caught my eye and that was that. I ordered the ponies … Continue reading
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Solving Problems in Seahorse Culture
By Todd Gardner
| Date posted: 09/01/2001
Although seahorses have been spawned and reared in captivity for many years, a simple, effective, and reliable culture protocol is still sorely needed. The purpose of this article is to report on my preliminary rearing trials and the solutions to some of the problems I have encountered. Continue reading
