KimP
Wed, 7th Sep 2011, 11:12 PM
I've been keeping erectus seahorses for the past 4 years and have always struggled with the perfect feeding dish. I prefer to have a dish that the horses come to and that contains the mysis, rather than broadcast feeding. I'm also kind of lazy in the sense that I like to drop a frozen chunk of mysis in a tube and allow it to melt and sink into the dish. After all this time I finally had a custom acrylic seahorse dish made. I've been keeping my eyes open for one for the past 4 years on various sites and finally asked Jack from Mr. Cob's Wet Acrylic. I got it a week ago and I love it!! Jack does the best acrylic work I've seen. I have a rubble box from him as well. He's been very easy to work with and I'm very happy with the experience. I'm also having him make me one more that's just slightly wider and with a wrap around hitch. It'll be fun to see which the horses prefer :D
I wanted to also share some pictures of it. The bowl I had been using all along worked fine, except I had to unplug all pumps to use it or all the mysis would just blow out. Also, the seahorses couldn't really hold on to the sides of the bowl and they'd just slide into it and that would push the mysis out. This dish allows me to keep all the pumps on and the horses have a hitch, and I don't lose any mysis. I haven't decided yet exactly where I want to place it.
Mods, I couldn't decide if this was best placed here or in the seahorse forum, so please move if needed, thanks!
In the pics you can see how first I put the tube in the bowl, then put the chunk of frozen mysis in the tube to melt and sink. When all the mysis are in the bowl I can slowly pull the tube out and here come the seahorses to feast!
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I wanted to also share some pictures of it. The bowl I had been using all along worked fine, except I had to unplug all pumps to use it or all the mysis would just blow out. Also, the seahorses couldn't really hold on to the sides of the bowl and they'd just slide into it and that would push the mysis out. This dish allows me to keep all the pumps on and the horses have a hitch, and I don't lose any mysis. I haven't decided yet exactly where I want to place it.
Mods, I couldn't decide if this was best placed here or in the seahorse forum, so please move if needed, thanks!
In the pics you can see how first I put the tube in the bowl, then put the chunk of frozen mysis in the tube to melt and sink. When all the mysis are in the bowl I can slowly pull the tube out and here come the seahorses to feast!
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