Mark Sasaki's 10 Gallon Aquarium CB H. erectus Fry Plastic Feeding Station

Hippocampus Haven

Seahorse Feeding Stations

Mark Sasaki's 10 Gallon Aquarium
CB H. erectus Fry Plastic Feeding Station

2003 © Mark Sasaki

H. erectus fry eating
from the plastic feeding station in the bottom left corner.

Tank:

10 gallon tank.

Inhabitants:

Two H. erectus babies, 4 months old.

Feeding Seahorses:

Types of Food:

Hikari mysis.

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:

One 2" plastic Tupperware drilled and held down with suction cup.

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:

The fry were taught a little differently than the adults. I had to make sure the fry were able to eat small shrimp since their main diet was baby brine shrimp. I moved two of the largest fry to a separate tank and started feeding them very small shrimp from George. They took to it right away. I fed the larger food twice a day for 2 weeks. Dropping in the frozen mysis periodically.

I made the feeding tray after the fry had been settled on the larger food. I tried dropping the frozen food in the tray during their meal time. One of the fry noticed the tray and may have snicked a little but there was not very much interest. I killed the live shrimp and dropped down the tube and it landed in the tray. They ate it right up! I continued to do this and mixing in frozen mysis with the live shrimp, they would pick out the freshly killed live food and leave the rest. next i tried cutting a larger shrimp into very small pieces and mixing it in to the frozen food. The ate some as they could not distinguish the fresh killed from the frozen.

After two more weeks, they now know where to eat and have been trained to eat only frozen food. I will sprinkle cyclopeeze onto the thawed frozen for a slight change but they are eating it for every meal now.

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