[Rick,
You are so right, they really are just so precious and special. I would have melted if that happened to me. I melt when they latch on my finger in my aquarium, I would be mush if they did it in the wild.
Marc,
GHASP! I love the pictures! Thank you!
I wanted to go to MACNA so bad but I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever make it. I never seem to have enough money. one day.....sigh
Amanda,
Well, the cyclop-eeze is bigger than baby brine and they will have to grow a little before they can eat it. Right now they are not acknowledging it as a food source. But....I'm not giving up :
: I WILL train them to eat it, it will just take some time. It is SO much more nutritious. Little jerks, EAT YOUR VITAMINS!!!! :laugh long:
Jody,
a 2.5 gal is great for dwarves. You have to watch the water quality closely tho, it can go bad fast! Sounds like you are on the right track. I have that book and it is my sh bible, and sh.org (check out syngnathid.org too) are wonderful places to learn. I have used dead rock and made it live. Works great! and that way you know it is completely safe. You can seed it with Coralline algae pegs from
www.ipsf.com (tho I've never done this, and I'm not sure how safe it is.....hydroids :rool eyes: )
I do have airlines in the tanks. I have a sponge filter in my 2.5 and open airlines in the bowl with the babies. Airlines are okay as long as you don't put an airstone on them. Just leave the tube open and the bubbles will be too big to get in the pouches (even in the big species) It is just the micro bubbles that you have to worry about. Powerheads are WAY too powerful for dwarves. They will blow all over the place. Just an airline or two or a sponge filter will work fine. That galaxy light is great. I had intentions of buying it at one point also. But I found a NO flourescent 12" light at petsmart that fit my 2.5 gal perfectly for $8 so I went with that instead, until I want to try corals.
As for FC as a source, I can not personally recommend him. I had a bad experience. He has a wonderful reputation but my experience was terrible. You can read about it here.
http://www.syngnathid.org/ubbthre....fpart=1
Aqualand is great. I had a good experience with them a couple of years ago and will order from them if I order again. Hopefully these babies will grow up and I won't need to.
Tony,
I feed my adults once a day and my babies 2-3 times a day. I am feeding live to the adults tho so it lives thru the day. I will have to feed 2x if I can ever get them on frozen. The babies need more cause it has to literally be swarming them so they can eat enough, they aren't coordinated enough to hunt well yet :nod: Some people feed 4-5 times or more and all I can say to that is....they must not have much to do during the day. My horses are fine, happy, with fat little guts. To sum up I'd say frozen=2x per day live=1x per day should be fine for adults.
HTH guys!
laura]