I have had my seahorse tank set up for around 5 months now and I am for the first time going to leave it for 7-10 days with no one to really watch after it for me.
Tank is 40 gallons, 1 seahorse, 1 pipefish, 1 large hermit crab, 7 or 8 tiny blue leg hermits, and a mandarin goby so it is a pretty light stock load.
The seahorse ONLY eats live grass shrimp, the pipefish and goby eat frozen mysis shrimp. The tank was seeded with tigger pods a good month or so before the goby was introduced so I am assuming/hoping that there are still some of those. I always see the goby swimming around the rocks and eating at it so I think im still good on that front. My real concern is with leaving the seahorse for this time period. I hand feed it shrimp but he is also pretty good at catching them on his own in the tank when they escape from my net.
If I feed him a few shrimp before I leave and add 10 or so shrimp to the tank for him to catch during the week should he be ok?
I also have a 165g freshwater tank with assorted south americans but I know they can all go a week w/o eating.
Tank is 40 gallons, 1 seahorse, 1 pipefish, 1 large hermit crab, 7 or 8 tiny blue leg hermits, and a mandarin goby so it is a pretty light stock load.
The seahorse ONLY eats live grass shrimp, the pipefish and goby eat frozen mysis shrimp. The tank was seeded with tigger pods a good month or so before the goby was introduced so I am assuming/hoping that there are still some of those. I always see the goby swimming around the rocks and eating at it so I think im still good on that front. My real concern is with leaving the seahorse for this time period. I hand feed it shrimp but he is also pretty good at catching them on his own in the tank when they escape from my net.
If I feed him a few shrimp before I leave and add 10 or so shrimp to the tank for him to catch during the week should he be ok?
I also have a 165g freshwater tank with assorted south americans but I know they can all go a week w/o eating.
