--- Easiest food to breed? ---

[Tito]

For my seahorses, what would be the easiest food to breed and give them?

I am thinking blood worms, since you dont really have to feed them much and all they do (their purpose in life) is breeding...

Ghost shrimp- don't reproduce fast enough.

Brine shrimp- good except not super high nutrition, and you have to be unplugging the air and transferring them from container to container and removing the old egg shells etc etc etc.

Any other, maybe little fish, that might not need so much attention?

[recoiljpr]

As long as you gut load the Brine shrimp in selco/selcon, etc they will be nutritious. Overall, brine shrimp are one of the easiest to culture (IMO easier then rotifers). Depending on the size of the horsies you are feeding, you probably will want to feed them mostly napulii. I don't know about seahorses but for my reef tanks I never decapsulated them and I've never had a problem.

Here are some links that may give you ideas on culturing Artemia.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2008/3/breeder
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~davidr/discus/articles/artemia.html (http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/%7Edavidr/discus/articles/artemia.html)
http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/What-are-the-guidelines-for-culturing-brine-shrimp-c119.html

[Third Coast Tropical]

Brine shrimp....easiest for sure IMO....have cultured both artemia (brine shrimp) and rotifers for several years...by far, artemia are the easiest....just have to enrich them to make them more nutritious, somethiing with high lipid content, We use Algamac 2000 and 3000 where I work ......Just make sure to decant off all the unhatched cysts....

What kind of seahorses?

At work (UTMSI-FAML), we feed our seahorses as so

Dwarves - newly hatched artemia 2X a day, supplemented with other diet occassionally
Lined - Mysis and Artemia adults....from frozen cubes....2X a day.....

[Tito]

They are the regular mustangs so pretty good size. I was wondering though what might be the biggest live shrimp that they will eat?

A 1 month old brine? Or would it just be waaaay to big?