Abarnswell
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I know the dangers of impulse buying, but I just couldn't help myself. Last night, I was visiting an LFS about an hour away from my house and found a junvenile seahorse in their store. They had no idea what species it is, or whether CB or WC (I'm assuming WC). She came in with four others, who were all DOA. That was a month ago. She was still alive, although I think that's a miracle. When I saw her yesterday, she was alone in a 90 gallon tank, no hitches, no plants, no cover at all, trying to snick up a glob of frozen mysis shrimp that was a big as her head. It's a miracle she was still alive, although her stomach was very sucken in.
She is 3 inches long, from the tip of her head to the tip of her tail. They told me she was black when she arrived, but soon after she turned bright yellow. She has a couple dark spots on her spine and little tiny black polkadots on her.
I brought her home (I just happened to have a tank I could put her in, at least for the short term until she outgrows it). Right now she's in a 10 gallon tank that is home to a pair of blue stripe pipefish, which are approximately 2.5 inches long each. The tank has a sand bed, plants, and a small dead rock formation in the center of the tank. There are also a few Nassarius snails in there for company.
I'm trying to get a clearer picture:
The first thing I did after I got her home and acclimated her to the tank was offer her live adult brine shrimp. She immediately started gobbling them up, which I took as a hopeful sign. She also hitched herself to a small plant and curled up for the night, where she remained pretty much all night.
I have asked the LFS where I bought her to contact their supplier and find out more about her... confirm she was WC (which is my guess), and try to identify her species. The supplier told the LFS she was "tank raised", but to me that's a euphemysm for WC.
This morning, I was afraid to look in the tank, for fear that she didn't make it through the night. But there she was, swimming up and down the glass, curling and uncurling her tail. After swimming around a while, she returned to her "favorite" plant and hitched herself up again.
This is my first seahorse. Other than the two pipefish, I've don't have any seahorses and have never had any before. I have been reading everything I could get my hands on for a while now in preparation of getting some dwarf seahorses in the near future, as soon as the tank that I am preparing for them is done cycling.
So now I have this orphaned little seahorse in with my pipes. If she makes it, I will try to find her a suitable seahorse companion so she's not lonely, and start plans for a larger tank to hold her as she grows. I hope I'll be able to find out more about her origins from the supplier. They are supposed to check with him and get back with me this week.
I have adult live brine shrimp, cyclopeeze, live copepods, and am getting ready to hatch bbs. I will order something to enrich the adult brine shrimp for her, since that seems to be what she likes best. I didn't see her eat the cyclopeeze, but the pipes do. as the adult brine are too big for them.
She is 3 inches long, from the tip of her head to the tip of her tail. They told me she was black when she arrived, but soon after she turned bright yellow. She has a couple dark spots on her spine and little tiny black polkadots on her.
I brought her home (I just happened to have a tank I could put her in, at least for the short term until she outgrows it). Right now she's in a 10 gallon tank that is home to a pair of blue stripe pipefish, which are approximately 2.5 inches long each. The tank has a sand bed, plants, and a small dead rock formation in the center of the tank. There are also a few Nassarius snails in there for company.
I'm trying to get a clearer picture:
The first thing I did after I got her home and acclimated her to the tank was offer her live adult brine shrimp. She immediately started gobbling them up, which I took as a hopeful sign. She also hitched herself to a small plant and curled up for the night, where she remained pretty much all night.
I have asked the LFS where I bought her to contact their supplier and find out more about her... confirm she was WC (which is my guess), and try to identify her species. The supplier told the LFS she was "tank raised", but to me that's a euphemysm for WC.
This morning, I was afraid to look in the tank, for fear that she didn't make it through the night. But there she was, swimming up and down the glass, curling and uncurling her tail. After swimming around a while, she returned to her "favorite" plant and hitched herself up again.
This is my first seahorse. Other than the two pipefish, I've don't have any seahorses and have never had any before. I have been reading everything I could get my hands on for a while now in preparation of getting some dwarf seahorses in the near future, as soon as the tank that I am preparing for them is done cycling.
So now I have this orphaned little seahorse in with my pipes. If she makes it, I will try to find her a suitable seahorse companion so she's not lonely, and start plans for a larger tank to hold her as she grows. I hope I'll be able to find out more about her origins from the supplier. They are supposed to check with him and get back with me this week.
I have adult live brine shrimp, cyclopeeze, live copepods, and am getting ready to hatch bbs. I will order something to enrich the adult brine shrimp for her, since that seems to be what she likes best. I didn't see her eat the cyclopeeze, but the pipes do. as the adult brine are too big for them.
