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Hippocampus Haven
Seahorse Feeding Stations
Mark Sasaki's 18 Gallon
Tall Aquarium
WC H. barbouri Coral Feeding Station
2003 ©
Mark Sasaki
H. barbouri eating mysis
from the coral feeding station.
H. barbouri eating mysis
from the new plastic feeding station.
Tank:
Inhabitants:
Feeding Seahorses:
Types of Food:
Nutritional Supplements Used:
- Selcon.
- Kent Zoe.
- Cyclopeeze.
Number of Feedings per Day:
- Two, one in the morning and one in
the evening.
Feeding Station and Feeding Tools:
- Modified LFS type fish tray (don't
remember the name).
- Food drop is a 1 inch acrylic tube.
- Tools used long tweezers and or turkey baster for food
handling.
Feeding Method:
- Thaw out food,
soak in Selcon and Zoe, then sprinkle dehydrated
Cyclopeeze and allow to sit 5 minutes.
- Use tweezers to pick up food and drop down food drop tube
Training
Seahorses to Eat from Feeding Station:
- It was easy to
train my wild caught H. barbouri, because I didn't. They
ate from the coral first and then by accident I broke the coral
where I used to stuff the food. Since they used to hitch to the
coral, I put the food there and they just ate it.
- In the tray, I used fresh killed live food, as you can tell
from the picture there is adult brine in the tray. From that, they
figured out that is where the food always appears. They were
easier than the Erectus fry.
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