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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Friday, January 7, 2011 3:58 PM
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Well, you know, I have this great little pod that can be cultured pretty darn easily.... 
--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Friday, January 7, 2011 9:06 PM
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Hmm, need my address and some shipping fees?
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Friday, January 7, 2011 9:20 PM
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Which Pod is that?
Chad Penney - MBI Council Agis quod Adis
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Friday, January 7, 2011 11:40 PM
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It's the apocyclops cyclopoid. It's a goodie. Completely pelagic all the way through the life cycle, but easy to culture to high densities. Females are brooders (and are pretty bad swimmers when the egg sacs are full = easy to catch and really nutritious). First stage naups are about 90 microns across. I think we'd have to do it in two stages. I send you a culture of the dinoflagellates. Once you have that culture down, then I send out the copepods. Well, three stages. You need to get the food for the dinos first. Although, heck, you can certainly culture them on T-Iso instead if you have it. Let me know guys. We can start working that out.
--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Friday, January 7, 2011 11:47 PM
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--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Saturday, January 8, 2011 8:08 AM
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Let me research your methods and get setup, then I'd love to get some from you.
Just moved the ponies to their main tank today. Started eating right away, although the male paled up a bit. I hope they will color up better with the orange and red plants.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Saturday, January 8, 2011 8:39 AM
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I can certainly fill you in on what I do here, if it's not too off topic. It's fairly simple. Dinos: I culture them in 2 gallon HPDE buckets. I'm currently revising my feeding regime, so I'll fill you in on that later. (It seems to change a little with each order of food I get from Reed's.) Foods you need: RotiGrow Plus and NRich PL. Of the two, the NRich is more important for the dinos. A tangent: You might be able to get away with just the NRich, but I feed a blend of the two foods. Here's a nutritional comparison: http://rotifersolutions.com/?page_id=290 The foods are expensive, but the RotiGrow+ can be frozen and is what people should be feeding their rotifers anyway. It's good stuff. The dinos will survive on RG+ but will not grow to really good densities. I haven't tried a lot of alternatives, but I know they will grow to good densities on NRich. /tangent I grow them in 2 gallon containers with moderate air at 73-74 degrees F. Feed twice per day. ClorAmX twice per day. Harvest at least 20-30% every day (but the cultures can survive much deeper harvesting). Every 4-5 days, pass the water from the culture through a 27 micron screen into a new culture container. Try not to siphon the stuff off the bottom or sides. That's it. Like I said, I'll get you updated feeding instructions when you are ready.
--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Saturday, January 8, 2011 9:02 AM
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@Andy -- Hard to believe there is anybody who has been hanging around MBI or other marine breeding sites who hasn't heard one or the other of us (or both) go on and on and on about Apocyclops panamensis yet! I've been using them on my fry, but not my adults. Not sure Apocyclops would be noticed by adults H. erectus, but like I said I haven't tried.
@Rook -- I use an abalone shell on the sand for a feeding station. To feed, I use a length of 1/2" PVC longer than the water column is tall. I put one end of the PVC in the abalone shell, turkey baste the thawed frozen mysis into the PVC, and give it a minute for the mysis to settle. Meanwhile, the horses gather around the shell, because they know PVC = food. Gently pull the tube away, and the food stays in the shell. Once the horses are done feeding, I reach down and turkey baste the leftovers out. Easy way to keep the horses fed and the tank free of excess food. (Doni Marie gets credit for this method, BTW)
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Saturday, January 8, 2011 11:24 AM
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Good idea Jim, I'll have to dig out an old clam shell from the reef and work something out.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Sunday, January 9, 2011 8:32 AM
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'Tis a good point, Jim. The copepods might be too small for erectus and I don't have any ponies to run tests with. Then again, all of my small-mouthed planktivores (chromis, wrasses, and I believe grammas, too) seem to take them, so it might be worth the test.
--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus Erectus
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:41 PM
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Well time for some updates:
I lost the male of this pair. No idea what happened to him, never found the body. I also though I lost the female: that is until I notice her tail. I have my glass heater inside of a 1" PVC with a number of holes drilled in it; the intent being to protect the seahorse from the heater. Somehow the female got inside of this tube and I could see her tailed wrapped around one of the holes. I got her out just find, but she a bit skinny and stark white. She is eating.
I picked up two new males today from Dan Olsson. Both are a bit bigger than my female; and both look great. I was quite impressed with Dan's stock, he has 4 or 5 bathes at different stages all looking great.
We will see how it goes. I'm going to have to feed a bit extra for a while in hopes the female pulls through and they can get jiggy wit-it.
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