[Domboski]

Hello Everyone! I reside on the East Coast of the United States in New York City. I've heard a lot of great things about your site and have had the privilege of reading the work of some of your members. I figured I'd join the site and introduce my seahorse fry

After several failed attempts using Kreisel systems, I designed my own system for raising the fry of the Northern Lined Seahorse (H. Erectus) which were net collected off the coast of Long Island, NY. Please forgive me for the quality of my images. I'm not very good with the camera yet.

Parents:









Fry:





If you want to follow their progression and see some video you can do so here: http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/fish/5...eeding-log.html

Thanks for having me as a member and I look forward to viewing the many informational threads!

[lindsay]

Stunning ,welcome to International Reefers.

[ben]

welcome to the site. great to have another one of you guys over from manhattan reefs.

and your pics look pretty good to me.

[Domboski]

Thanks for the kind words Sorry about the misspelling in the Thread Title. Should have been Hippocampus erectus

[jason@jasonsaquatics]

Welcome to I/R Domboski

If you have any info on seahorse info that will help others feel free to post them up as i know a few guys on the forum are thinking of starting a seahorse tank up .

Thanks for calling in and saying


yours


jas

[Simon Garratt]

Welcome to IR Domboski.

looks like a cracking setup you have there and as Jason said, any info you can pass on to our members would be great..


THEY ARE SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE

[BOM8ER]

to IR, top pic's

[dave14]

Welcome to the forum fantastic pics

[Social D]

Welcome to the Forum - as above great pics and they are rather Cute!

[Crabbit]

Good work my friend, do you have any details of the set up? Sump, feeding what and how much? Must feel real good to bread these.

[Domboski]

Thank you for the kind words. The adult breeding seahorses are in a separate system than the fry. The adults are in a 72 bowfront with an 8" sand bed. There is a 20 gallon sump with an ASM G3 skimmer gravity fed (100% drain water runs through it) and recirc mod. The seahorses are locally collected here in New York where the water stays cool most of the year so I keep the water temp at 68 degrees Fahrenheit. There is probably about 30-40 lbs of live rock. The tank is LOADED with all types of macro but mostly Caulerpa prolifera. Naturally the seahorses stay hidden within the eel grass off the cost of New York so the prolifera serves as the eel grass substitute. Currently I have 3 males and 3 female seahorses.

As far as tank mates I have a Flame Boxfish, 5 White spotted Pygmy filefish, a bristletail filefish, 3 garden eels, a orangetail filefish and two cunners (a wrasse local to New York).

There is a plethora of pods in the tank thanks to the macro algae but I also feed frozen mysis at least twice a day and a lot. I supplement live foods such as amphipods and mysis whenever I can.

[jason@jasonsaquatics]

Top post ,

Do you collect NSW for the changes or do you do your own mixes ?

Be good to see pics of the fry as they grow so we can follow there progress.When feeding the fry i'm told they can burn up more energy getting to the food than what the food is worth to them .To combat this some have used speralina algae dust that they roll the food in as the algae is high in minerals that are good for the fry .

Top topic


jas

[Crabbit]

Sounds good any pics of the other flat mates? I love Box fish. The tank sounds greats. Howz the little ones getting on?

[Domboski]

Here are some pics of the tank mates (taken by a friend not me except for the first one):

[Domboski]

jason@jasonsaquatics, on May 16 2009, 02:53 AM, said:

Top post ,

Do you collect NSW for the changes or do you do your own mixes ?

Be good to see pics of the fry as they grow so we can follow there progress.When feeding the fry i'm told they can burn up more energy getting to the food than what the food is worth to them .To combat this some have used speralina algae dust that they roll the food in as the algae is high in minerals that are good for the fry .

Top topic


jas

I use commercial salt and ro/di water to make the replacement water. Right now I am enriching the BBS for 12 hours with a special rotifer feed I purchased from an aquaculture facility in Florida. So far it has worked great although the number of fry I have left after 4+ weeks is down to 10-15. Hopefully they pull through. I tried cyclopeeze with no luck bit I'll keep trying.

[ben]

nice pics of some interesting looking tank mates

[Domboski]

Thanks Here are a couple more:

[ben]

thats a very strange looking filefish. looks great

[Crabbit]

Thats one cool box fish

[lindsay]

As above ,smart fish ,very different from most the fish seen over here.