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Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Monday, January 22, 2018 11:24 PM
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Breeding Journal DataSheet
This first post should be updated regularly to include new information as events take place or changes are made to your system General Species: Erectus Social Structure: male female pair Size of Individuals: 5 inches Age of Individuals: Unsure purchased as pair Date added to Tank: Mid December 2017 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 70 gallons Substrate Details: Sandy zones and rubble zones Filtration Details: Skimmer/ Refugium/ chaeto/ other macro Algaes Water Changes: As needed currently 10 gallons / week Water Temperature: 74 F Lighting: 4 T-3 Lighting Cycle: 14 hours Other Tank Inhabitants: one small dragonface pipefish grass shrimp others to be added After 2nd hatch 2nd dragonface pipefish added, 3 tangoria gobies, 2 yasha gobies Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: Frozen mysid tank also stocked and aged with amphipods and Copepods live mysid (those have been hunted and eaten) grass shrimp fire worms and other small fauna Feeding Schedule: X2 daily Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: best of my knowledge 1-22-2018 Spawn Time of Day: Unknown spilled eggs found at 5pm Dates of Consecutive Spawns: Unknown Courtship Details: Have been dancing before this and attempted 12/28 and 1/6 Egg Size: Small Egg Color: Orange Egg Count: unknown 25 or so found spilled in tank Hatch Details Hatch Date: 2/7/2018 Hatch Time of Day: 7:30 am - unknown # Days after Spawn: 16 days, 14 days (temp around 75 or 76), 16 days (temp around 73) Larvae Description: small duplicates of the parents Consecutive Hatch Dates: 2/22/2018, 3/10/2018, 3/27/18, 4/12/18 Larval Tank Details Temperature: room temp = 73 or so Size of Larval Tank: 1st attempt a 1/2 gallon jar. 2nd attempt 1 1/2 square bucket Substrate Details: none at the moment Other Tank Decor: none in nursery, chaeto and plastic grass in intermediate tub Filtration Details: none in nursery, chaeto in intermediate tub Lighting: Top tank portable work light with adjustable brightness Lighting Cycle: 15 hr. on / 9 hours off Water Changes: 30% twice a day for nursery, limited in intermediate tub Larval Feeding Details Food Types: rotifers L and S , tisbe, parvocalanus, ciliates, T-iso 1st day, added newly hatched San Francisco brine for 1 wk, newly hatched regular brine (and a day or two old) after with tisbe and tigger pods Feeding Schedule: 2 times daily Metamorphosis/Settlement Date of Settlement Start: settled right away. Days after Hatch: Date of Settlement End: Description of Fry: miniature of parent but very pale tan
Grow-Out Tank Details Temperature: Size of Grow-Out Tank: Substrate Details: Other Tank Decor: Filtration Details: Lighting: Lighting Cycle: Water Changes: Size at Transfer: Age at Transfer: Grow-Out Feeding Details Food Types: Feeding Schedule: Additional Information (No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please) Miscellaneous Information: You will be required to provide photographic or video evidence in this thread of each event submitted for the MBI Program.
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<message edited by kizanne on Thursday, April 12, 2018 10:26 PM>
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:41 AM
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Godiva (male)  Godiva and Waldo (it's hard but find their entwined tails.) There's a reason I'm always saying where's Waldo. She hides good.  Movie of their attempt 1/6 https://youtu.be/wxpZfTd2jxk Have to be in full screen to see the ascending. Spilled eggs from the 1/22/18 spawn 
<message edited by kizanne on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:31 AM>
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 11:14 AM
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So sometime around Christmas I got this pair of captive bred horses. Shortly after they started the flashing of colors and some ascension though they seemed to not know what they were doing. At that time I wasn't sure of the sexes. As time has passed his pouch has become more puffy/soft and it is more apparent.
The male was lithe from the beginning and that worried me. They both eat frozen mysid and the tank is stocked with various live foods as well.
On the 22nd I found a few spilled eggs in the tank. And upon inspection I'm sure they are Seahorse eggs (and they are too large for anything else). After the egg find the girl is much smaller so I'm more confident in the sexes now.
What I don't know is did any make it in the pouch? His pouch is now much smaller than it was on the 22nd but the area is still softer looking and a little puffy.
I will plan on babies sometime between the 7th and the 12th. I'll start hatching brine and try to ramp up the rotifers and copepods. I have some space and time constraints that may get in the way.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Thursday, January 25, 2018 8:44 PM
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Well today is 3 days after the spawn. By my reading if he wasn't pregnant then his pouch would be deflated and he'd not be puffy in that area. He is still puffy meaning from the dead front his pouch area is wider than his main body.
I believe he has some fry in there and while it will be difficult with space and time. I'm going to try my first attempt at Erectus.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Sunday, January 28, 2018 10:46 PM
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His pouch is getting larger so pretty sure he's pregnant. He is also displaying the expected behaviors. He is more reclusive, hanging out in the darker, lower flow, open cave of my setup. He is also increased his feeding. I'm gathering together supplies for a nursery. Got a 29 high and a diamond drill bit in hopes of plumbing it to a 20 long below. I have taken some tisbes and put them in a few containers with T-iso and a sponge for breeding. Bought some more black sponges to go in my amphipod tank. The tisbe's seem to reproduce well in the amphipod tank inside the sponge. My copepod/mysid tank is currently quarantine for some gobies. I have rotifers that I've treated like crap so I need to ramp them up but I don't have any paste. I'm off to buy some san frans baby brine eggs. I'm really hoping for a late expel (20 days). I've read anywhere from 15-21 for erectus depending on temp. current tank temp is 74 degrees. Here he's asking me. Do these babies make me look fat? 
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Thursday, February 01, 2018 9:29 PM
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Well the San Francisco strain of brine arrived today.
I've ramped up the rotifers with the little bit of live algae I have. I have some small jars with tisbe copepods but they have gotten infested with rotifers. I'm getting some parvocalanus soon. I had some but not nearly enough. I also ordered some tigger pods to increase the diversity of foods for the parents.
This weekend I am going to try to get the tank set up and seed it with T-iso and the parvos and tisbes.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Wednesday, February 07, 2018 10:55 AM
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Ok so my male started releasing sometime this morning. When I went to feed him at 7 am sometime in there I noticed he was gyrating. Then I found a baby. I managed to collect about 15 before I had to go to work. That was all I saw in the tank but I'm not sure he was done releasing. My larval tank is not up and running yet. the stand pipe was in but I hadn't filled it with salt so we put in as much water as we could and added salt so that we can adjust this evening. In the mean time. I had some tisbe's I had been collecting and concentrating. and a few rotifers. I had shrimp but it wasn't 'new' bb so I didn't use it. I put the babies in 1/2 gallon glass jar, some prime, most of my tisbe cultures, and some t-iso, nano, tetra and just a few rotifers. Today in the mail is supposed to be a lot of parvocalanus and s strain rotis I already have one dead. I found it floating in the parent tank. Not sure what I'll do tonight but I'll keep you posted.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Wednesday, February 07, 2018 11:00 AM
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Wednesday, February 07, 2018 12:43 PM
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This picture of the baby almost looks like his belly is caved in. But what is the starvation age for erectus fry? unless he was expelled last night he shouldn't be at starvation. The picture was taken around 8 am only 1 hour after I saw fry in the tank. Even if he spit them out with lights on that is 6:30 am should this one have starved in 1 1/2 hours?
Of course fry can die for any old reason but the starvation question has been vexing me and I've only found one piece of information that says like 18 hours but it wasn't a scientific paper or anything so I've been trying to find other information.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Thursday, February 08, 2018 7:46 AM
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Well got home and had some losses. Had to change things around since everything was last minute yesterday. This morning all were dead.
I'm sure I'll have more to play with soon enough.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Friday, February 09, 2018 9:25 PM
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Aw, I'm so sorry to hear.
Owner of Kathy's Clowns, LLC Yes, we have no more clownfish. We have no more clownfish today!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 10:29 PM
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Well he looking like he's holding again. Not sure when he got knocked up but I'm expecting release from the 24th to 28th. So I'll start bbs morning and night batches from the 23rd on. However, just as I got the larval tank seeded with t-iso I decided to use it for quarantining some mandarins. A beautiful girl and boy who seem to already be in love. Now I just need to keep them alive until I can wean them to frozen.
Not sure how this will be effecting the babies. They might end up Mandarin food.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:47 AM
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Sigh * so this morning you guessed it babies. 15 days after the last batch, so preggers the same day and 1 day faster. I had it on my calendar to start bbs shrimp this morning to have fresh ones for tomorrow and every 12 hours after that.
Missed it by 'that' much.
I got about 30 babies. I put them in a 1.5 gallon container with some t-iso and a couple thousand parvocalanus. This evening any still alive I'll add some enriched rotifers L-strain more parocalanus and some tisbe's. Then if they survive to morning I'll have bbs then.
And for the 3rd time (next time) I'll be ready for 14 days LOL
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Friday, February 23, 2018 8:11 AM
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So excited, they are all still alive. I expected some to die off over night as they didn't all look like they had full bellies last night. Put in a some more parvocalanus and a few rotifers (not many) and some bbs. Did a 50% water change last night and added some fresh parent tank water this morning. Using Prime as well.
My tank I had designed for larva was growing very thick with T-iso but has become infested with rotifers and is running high ammonia and the T-iso is clearing. This weekend if I have time I'll work on some rehab for this tank. It also has adult brine shrimp, parvocalanus and tisbe's in there. I have some netting of different sizes, I think I'll try straining the output from the pump for several hours with like a 220 micron or if I have one a 150 microns. Then the seahorses can have the output of that. The rots will be full of t-iso and the copepods are good nutrition.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Thursday, March 01, 2018 2:45 PM
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So it is one week later and I have only lost 3 babies in that week. I am switching them over to the larger (normal) baby brine shrimp. There are still some tisbes in the container but some get sucked out each day when I remove the refuse from the bottom of the container. They have gotten bigger hubby thinks it is almost twice as big but I don't know they still look small to me. They'll hitch but I am keeping the tank bare for ease of cleaning and feeding. I do a 30% water change in the morning and evening most days.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Wednesday, March 07, 2018 3:16 PM
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a few days ago I switched them over to a larger shallow bin. I've added some chaeto and some plastic grass for hitching. They have some tisbe can tigger copepods. I feed them twice a day with bbs shrimp though some of the brine are not newly hatched. I've been trying to give them some frozen copepods and TDO. Only a few seem interested. Next week I'll start really trying to get them switched over non-living food. though there will always be a few copepods in the tank to keep them active in the day, to eat left over food and to provide better nutrition.
Oh and my boy is due again Thursday 3/8 but I've lowered the tank temp so maybe he'll hold off til Saturday when it is more convenient.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Wednesday, March 07, 2018 3:38 PM
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12 days old. 
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Sunday, March 25, 2018 2:30 PM
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Well 1/2 way to 60 days. Today is day 31.
I have many still alive. I haven't counted since the last large die off due to some algal/gas bubble problems. I'd estimate I have 15-20 left. They like to hide in the chaeto so...
I'm upgrading their tank today after I get it cleaned out. So another big change coming today. And I hope with new tank I'll get the energy to try to switch to frozen (and keeping the tank cleaned after).
Next batch should arrive tomorrow.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Monday, March 26, 2018 11:38 AM
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at 15 days beside new born  New housing at 31 days 20 long split into 2 10 gallons with and air lift. 
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: [Hippocampus erectus]
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:50 AM
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Awe! Makes me want to work with seahorses again!
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