Several months ago I upgraded my 30lt seahorse tank to a 4x2x2ft tank with a few other additions. We have been feeding the occupants a mixture of frozen brine and mysis shrimp and as a treat, once a week, and live brine shrimp.
To try to keep the live brine shrimp as long as possible we have been putting them in a floating hatchery tank with a couple of drops of rotifer diet.
A few weeks after we started doing this we noticed that the bag of brine shrimp in the hatchery tank in the morning was reduced to half a dozen in the afternoon. At first my girlfriend and I though each other were feeding the seahorses a few "extras" before the evening meal. However since we both denied doing this we were not sure what was happening.
After watching the tank for a while we noticed that the female seahorse always took an interest in the tank when the brine shrimp were in there, and one morning we spotted her duck under the tank and suck the brine shrimp out through the rills in the bottom of the tank.
This morning while enjoying the tank after feeding them some live brine shrimp, I noticed the citron coral goby shoot under the tank, stop suck out a brine shrimp, race back to the rock and spit out the still live shrimp. Then the bi-colour blenny would dart in and eat it.
I watched this for about 8-10 times before it dawned on me that I should try to get this on video, as most people don't believe me when I tell them what the seahorse has been doing.
Here is a link to the seahorse video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3h5R1W7P3k
I have also uploaded the video of the coral goby as well, but it is not as good as most of the feeding had almost finished and I am having trouble uploading it to youtube.
Has anyone else seen something like this?
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To try to keep the live brine shrimp as long as possible we have been putting them in a floating hatchery tank with a couple of drops of rotifer diet.
A few weeks after we started doing this we noticed that the bag of brine shrimp in the hatchery tank in the morning was reduced to half a dozen in the afternoon. At first my girlfriend and I though each other were feeding the seahorses a few "extras" before the evening meal. However since we both denied doing this we were not sure what was happening.
After watching the tank for a while we noticed that the female seahorse always took an interest in the tank when the brine shrimp were in there, and one morning we spotted her duck under the tank and suck the brine shrimp out through the rills in the bottom of the tank.
This morning while enjoying the tank after feeding them some live brine shrimp, I noticed the citron coral goby shoot under the tank, stop suck out a brine shrimp, race back to the rock and spit out the still live shrimp. Then the bi-colour blenny would dart in and eat it.
I watched this for about 8-10 times before it dawned on me that I should try to get this on video, as most people don't believe me when I tell them what the seahorse has been doing.
Here is a link to the seahorse video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3h5R1W7P3k
I have also uploaded the video of the coral goby as well, but it is not as good as most of the feeding had almost finished and I am having trouble uploading it to youtube.
Has anyone else seen something like this?
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