Seahorse birth today!

Stunning .... Now it looks a hair curler in the second pic ... At 9 weeks are they already starting with hair styles and wanting to go out late night for parties?
 
No late night parties yet! Although, I seen the first pouch this morning, so they are starting to show their gender, which IMO is amazingly fast.
 
Well with a good "mommie" and excellent care, their "children" should develop well and show signs of it ... So don't be surprised with the proof of your wonderful nanny skills .... Be proud ... be very proud!
 
Thank you Chikaboo! I've never heard of them developing a pouch at 9 weeks before. I am very proud though! I got a 78% (29 out of 37) success with this batch. I also got my new air conditioner installed today, so I will be raising the next batch.
 
Great to hear .... I also found with my tanks that after I had a monster air con installed and the room temp stabalised everything else seemed to fall into place in terms of tank stabalization .... And the wife said we our selves could not afford an aircon but when the tank came along then we suddenly could afford it:p
 
I finally caught the little monster with the pouch!

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Great to hear .... I also found with my tanks that after I had a monster air con installed and the room temp stabalised everything else seemed to fall into place in terms of tank stabalization .... And the wife said we our selves could not afford an aircon but when the tank came along then we suddenly could afford it:p


I don't think these seahorses would have survived the next three months without one. We are just getting into the warm weather. This house already had two air conditioners The problem was that grandma doesn't want to turn it in. Now the seahorses have their own AC that grandma doesn't know about! :biggrin:
 
They are looking great

Hi Brenda,

Looking at the Photo's, your ponies are looking great - well done.:slayer:
 
Your brine hatchery is VERY FUNNY and indicative of a caring Sea-Horse lover. I am sure you are glad the brine is out of the way for a while - LOL
 
Wow Brenda they are stunning, Have you found homes for them yet?
You are going to have big home finding problems with 300 if you get that many!
 
Your brine hatchery is VERY FUNNY and indicative of a caring Sea-Horse lover. I am sure you are glad the brine is out of the way for a while - LOL

I'll have you know I finally got brine to adults. Unfortunately I didn't needed it, so they went to the gal that took the 426 fry....before I killed them off! :lol:
 
Wow Brenda they are stunning, Have you found homes for them yet?
You are going to have big home finding problems with 300 if you get that many!

I've got a few people interested, but not nearly enough. I haven't officially listed them for sale yet. I'd like them to get a little bit bigger before they go.

I'm not looking forward to finding homes for 300. :(
 
Nice to see the photo's Brenda, congrats on the success. :thumbup: Have you approached any pet shops to see if they will take batches from you? Hope you get rewarded for your efforts.
 
I've talked to a few pet shops and so far most are interested in them, but I don't think anyone will want a whole batch. I'm going to meet with one in a week or so to see if we can agree on setup. I won't let him put the seahorses in his tanks that are connected to the wild caught fish that he has. I'm a bit picky on letting these guys go! So far we have agreed on price, if we can work out how they will be taken care of in his store, he'll have seahorses to sell.
 
I won't let him put the seahorses in his tanks that are connected to the wild caught fish that he has.

That is exactly what I also want to avoid.
Nice to see some pictures again. They grew a lot now.;)
 
Sadly I have just euthanized Daddy Seahorse. I believe that he suffered from a pouch infection possibly caused by complications to a current or past pregnancy. His behavior the last few days were the same as they were a few days before he delivered so I did not get alarmed. It was obvious in the last few hours that this was not the case. What is really interesting is that while he quickly declined the other seahorses all gathered closely around him, so close that I had to move everyone out of the way to get a look at him.

The good news, I still have 29 of his off springs.
Oh shit sorry to hear that daddy died. It's so not nice when loosing a pet:(
 
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