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Congratulations on doing the research and getting this far. It, like the reefing hobby, is very addictive though. I'm just setting up my sixth tank...
I just use ammonium chloride from a bottle I got the pharmacy to bring in for me. It lasts a lifetime.
At this point, the seahorse is still to small to sex. All look like females until fully developed which in the case of males can be over a year old...
Please remember also to get corals that will thrive in the temperature range of 68° to 74°F that is best suited for seahorses in an aquarium. With...
Good luck with your seahorse. While seahorses sometimes survive in reefing conditions, there are many many more that perish in the attempt to do so....
I've stopped using any phyto in my tanks and instead, am feeding gut loaded rotifers instead.
I've never heard of anything ORA grows and sells to not be expensive.
Dr. Craig Bingman's DIY formula for magnesium supplementation is to mix 10 volumes of magnesium chloride hexahydrate with 1 volume of Epsom salts....
Yes, you can feed decapped brine shrimp cysts to your tank. Personally I prefer to use live gut loaded rotifers. Best time to do so is after the...
Have a look at the close ups in this video and see how yours compare. YouTube - Growing Reef Amphipods
I'm going to cheat for now on. I usually have to take 25 to 50 pics just to get one usable one that doesn't hold a candle to what I see other people...
That's what I use. I put about a gallon of water in a salt pail and dump in about half a cup of hydrochloric acid (Muriatic). Just don't let it...
I just sold my 18" squamosa, but the weight would have precluded shipping it. With the smallest styrofoam container I could use, water, and clam, it...
They are mysid shrimp. Do a google search and see pictures of the various kinds. Most look like miniature cleaner shrimp, with colour variations from...
Change out 50% of the water, twice, one day after the other. Then cut down on the feeding. You may have the tank overloaded biologically speaking...
Here is one site that provides to the medicine trade. It's staggering that just one company sells minimum 10KG per order but can supply up to 500KG...
That's why there are so many offshore breeders now, as they make big money selling them for medicine. If it were just for the hobby industry they...
It doesn't say in the open water so it's not net pen, but probably what they claim tank raised as they are now normally raised in large cement tanks....
Matt the kuda was one of the most sold species for the trade and here, you can buy Asian bred kudas in Toronto for $30 to $50 each depending on which...
Sorry Matt, but that news is a way out of date as captive bred rearing has been going on for a lot of years. See seahorsesource.com,...
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