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09-08-2008, 10:33 PM
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squid
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: indiana
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copepods
if i were to buy bottled copepods to feed my seahorses..how long would the supply last me? say if i bought an 8oz bottle 240 mL
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09-08-2008, 10:34 PM
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originally original
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Alabama
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Ideally they will colonize in the tank and sustain a population.
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09-09-2008, 03:09 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: earth
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Depends on the type of seahorse and the density of the bottle.
A seahorse can eat around 3000 pods a day. So if the bottle was heavily stocked and contained a thousand pods, then three bottles would last you a day. If you had two seahorses you would need 6 bottles. 4 seahorses 12 bottles etc.
I doubt the density is that high though, more likely a few hundred pods in a bottle.
Got a brand name.
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09-09-2008, 03:52 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Saco, ME USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pledosophy
A seahorse can eat around 3000 pods a day..
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Where does this data come from? Just trying to learn more seeing how I will be trying to keep and raise DSH and some site this amount for a pony that is no bigger than a dime.
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09-09-2008, 09:30 PM
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Addicted to Reef Tanks!
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Sorry to thread steal...Where is a good place to buy copepods? Our LFS has not had any in for a good while.
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09-09-2008, 09:48 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Saco, ME USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shaunalynna
Sorry to thread steal...Where is a good place to buy copepods? Our LFS has not had any in for a good while.
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One can buy them here:
http://www.livecopepods.com/?gclid=C...FQKJxgodBzi-iQ
I have not used them so my recomendation is only because I found the site some time ago doing research on DSH feeding.
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09-10-2008, 11:56 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Nebraska
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i bought a couple of those exact bottles from http://liveaquaria.com/ and just pored them into my tank after they got to the water temp. hoping they would colonize |
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09-10-2008, 12:04 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Saco, ME USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Archon
i bought a couple of those exact bottles from http://liveaquaria.com/ and just pored them into my tank after they got to the water temp. hoping they would colonize |
Hoping they would colonize .... And then what happen?
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09-10-2008, 12:27 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Saco, ME USA
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So back to the question at hand ... some would say that seahorses eat as many as 3000 copepods each day ... Whare does that informatin come from?
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09-11-2008, 09:03 AM
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Mommy Mod
Join Date: Jul 2006
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In any case... I would not count on copopds only- I would also have frozen mysisds on hand... are they eeating frozen or just live? A bottle simply isn't going to last that long. Ponies are a bit like babies - they eat sleep and poop - and are just as wonderful!
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09-12-2008, 09:51 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: earth
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IIRC Amanda Vincent from Project Seahorse was the first to publically state her researchers had observed a sinlge seahorse eating over 3000 small shrimp in a day. She did not say the species but given that she was working in the Phillipines at the time it was most likely a member of the Kuda Complex.
Her findings were featured in a documnetarty titled, Kingdom of the Seahorse. She headed the largest research project into observing seahorses in the wild in recent times.
I disagree with her on several points, (like seahorses are impossible to breed and fry is impossible to raise in home aquariums, and that seahorses are monogomous for life for a few) but her research has spurred much more information to be uncovered and she has done some great things for seahorses as a whole.
Anyhoo, for larger seahorses I would really try to feed at least half a cube of PE mysis twice day, dwarfs should e fed bbs and enriched BS at least twice a day as well.
Seahroses have no stomach so they can literally eat non stop. That doesn't mean they are digesting all of that food, but they will eat it and poop it out. Certain foods are also really hard for a seahorse to digest, so more of some foods is needed, less of others.
HTH
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02-15-2009, 10:56 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Aloha, Oregon
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bump
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02-15-2009, 11:00 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: boca raton, florida
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i buy the DT's copepods from my local store around 16.00$ for my mandrain they say they have thousands of them in there. They do reproduce. I buy one once a month just incase due to hes in my 12gallon nano. but every 3months i have to skip a month because i see them all over the glass. I dont know if this helps..
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02-16-2009, 03:28 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: earth
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 6speedchevelle
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Nothing to bump. A seahorse can not live off of pods alone, they need something more substantial to thrive in our systems.
Side note, when will the people of Aloha Or, learn how to pronounce there city? Fellow 97007er 
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