My gorgouse black kuda male seahorse is pregnant i got it at the pet shop and it was pregnant when i got it and hes realy fat in the pouch and the people at the pet shop thinks you looks preganant and so do i so what are the signs of when it is going too have its babies?
And what should i do with the babbies? Do i REALY HAVE to take them fromthier parents?
2007-11-30 15:31:01 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
No, you don't have to take the fry from the father - he doesn't provide any care, but he won't eat them either. But the babies stand a better chance of survival if you have a tank where they can get the conditions they need to grow, rather than leaving them in a tank set up for adults.
The baby seahorses have a larval stage where they just float in the water. They need to have lots of microscopic food to eat, and they tend to get pullinto filters and overflows, so very few (if any) tend to survive. You'll have a better chance of keeping them alive if you have a tank with a sponge filter ot undergravel filter to make very gentle water movement, and feed copepods, baby brine shrimp and rotifers (according to the size of the fry). The link below has several articles related to raising seahorse fry:
http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles.shtml
2007-11-30 16:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋