Rsatov, you are now considered my best "go to expert" on Seahorses. I have raised several broods also and my family room looks like your room....extension cords and tanks all over the place to house the various ages of seahorses and brine shrimp of various sizes. My question is, what type of filtration do you have on the newborn tanks? Also what was the name of that food you feed the newborns? Thanks
@csac70 The fry tanks I used were simple overflow tanks with a sump full of live rock. Fry are not very tolerant of nitrate so having separate fry tanks allows large water changes between broods. Fry were fed new;y hatched brine shrimp. Brine shrimp cysts must be decapsulated and harvested within a couple of hours of hatching. Once harvested they can be kept alive in the fridge for 4 or 5 days.
@wonderwoman978 You are partially correct. the female deposits her eggs into the males pouch where they stay until he spews them out. The female does not die. Thats spiders i think :-)
Great question! Even I have never considered it. When he is done he fills his pouch with water repeatedly and expells itr, I always just assumed it was to keep it clean but it coulod very well be to ensure they are all out. I would also guess that he could feel them moving around. Maybe not though.
@ts65614 from the birth tank? The tank they are born in has a regular pump and water flow that the adults need, the babies are very weak swimmers and would not survive for very long. The tank they are put in is highly controlled for water flow and uses an overflow system rather than a direct pump.
Very simple. They have to immediately be removed from the tank they are born in, this is done with a turkey baster. Counting is done as they are expelled from the turkey baster.
so please after the 30 min of them being at the top you say what did you do with them, did they saty in that tank? did you transfer them to a different one? what did you feed them? i have had 3 batches so far........... but i have tigertail seahorses
actually they stay at the top because of a so called air bladder which controllers their depth levels in a tank or ocean. if they stay at the top too long they develope air bubbles in their neck you can see and they become "floaters" who wont eat and die.....
did u no that female seahorses look like a male but the male is the one who gets prego and gives birth imagine if humans were like that tat would be ha ha halarious
wow it's weird, the baby seahorses here are so tiny and he pushes so much off them out with each push, while at the video of seahorse birthing of buschtall, the seahorse has to squeeze the babies out one by one because their so big. (and not so many)
anyway, it looks really cute, all those little babies ^^
wow.. that's allot of babies.. do all of them survive? I hear seahorses are very hard to take care of.. is it true? I want to help these delicate species of fish their endangered..
Thats amazing!:) How do you lay eggs and tell the difference between the male and female. In the next set can i buy a male and female from you plz!!!???
Males have the pouch that they carry the young in and females don't. The female deposits the eggs into the males pouch where he fertilises them and when they are grown, out they come. Sorry but I am no longer breeding as is mentioned in many previous comments.
I stopped beeding some time ago but I sold every one to a pet store wholesale company. This species (h.kuda) lives for 5 years. The famale deposits her eggs into the males pouch where he fertalizes them, carry's them for 2 weeks and out they pop.
what are you gunnah do with all them sea horses lol and how long do they live for and do u have to get a girl and a boy because some fishes can have babys with out mating ?
They all go to the top, I beleive to have the ocean currents disperse them to as wide an area as possible. They stay up there for a couple of hours. These ones eat baby brine shrimp, in the widl they eat anything live that is small enough to fit in their mouth.
They are incredible animals. From being the only species that the male carries the young to being the most docile critters in the sea. I have to agree with you :-)
And how did you come up with that assesment? In reality, 70% survived to 3" in length and found new homes . . . happier and healthier than any wild caught seahorse and better adapted to aquarium life than the usual captive bred that are available in stores.
After he gives birth he looks around at some of them with this look as if he's saying "Why don't any of you look like me, I thought at least 100 of you would"!
wow and by the way this is a MALE seahorse giving birth,,, because in seahorse land what the chicks do is put her eggs in his pouch [the hole shooting out the kids] and he fertilizes them while he i pregnant for about 3 weeks the he goes in exhausting labor for about 3 days then he get pregnant again, because that's what dude seahorses do to get attention and girls... funny right
see what happens is that the female puts the eggs or w.e in the males pouch so he carries them around untill they hatch...he doesnt make them he just lets them grow inside and then as u can see lets them out like he just nuted lol
we'll give you 80% as all you missed was the fertilization . . . suprisingly enough, although not scientific, roughly the same amount of people know the males carry the young as beleive seahorses area mythical creature. It's true!
If there is at least one male and one female you can likely count on babies eventually. One problem with using the same tank is the fry require very low water flow as they are weak swimmers while the parents need more water flow. Feeding could be another problem as well as maintaining acceptable water quality as you cannot remove the waste from a norrmal setup. Not to say it can't be done but it would pose some obstacles.
hey rsatov, i'm setting up my 5gt long tank as marine and i was thinking maybe i was gonna just have about 6 seahorses, don't worry i've done my hwk on them ;)
But i was wondering, if they DID give birth, which i guess my chances are slim, can i not just devide the tank into two halves and put babies in one, adults in the other?? :/
You can't tell until the males begin to develop their brood pouch, somewhere around 12 weeks. If you look carefully at the area immediately below the belly, where the tail begins, you can see a V shape that will become the pouch. Males have a pouch, femaels don't.
I counted them as they must be removed from the birth tank immediately upon birth. Later broods exceeded 500 and counting was a real bummer but I did it. Although selling them did add to my income, the reality is the cost to set up and maintain them was close to the revenue generated. Not being close to the ocean for water/food means it all has to be bought.
Sorry if you sold them for $30 a piece that's $5220 if there were actually 184 if that's not a random number. Don't feel bad if it is random I love making up random numbers.
The babys are fed newly hatched (less than 2 hours) san fanscisco strain brine shrimp. The Brine shrimp "eggs" are chemically treated with bleach to remove the shell so the baby seahorses don't acidentally eat a shell and choke on it. The San fransico strain is the smallest specie of brine shrimp.
One theory is, to allow them to be disbursed over a wider area by the ocean currents. Others are they have no control of their air sac immediately at birth and most marine critters are attracted to light and it is brightest at the top. They stay up there for a couple of hours.
And to tell the truth I couldn't stop laughing when I was voicing the dad, you should try it too!
The Daddy Seahorse: Okay, you can do this, Henry...You can do this..OOHH!..ah..there's one..and now.wha...WHAT THE!?..-explodes them out-..UUUAAAAAAAAUUGGGRRRRRGGGGHHH!!! UAAAH! UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! URRAAAHHHHHHH!!!!...Ugh! UAHHHHHH!...UaH! AH!....Ooo...oh...I guess this is what it feels like to be Mel Gibson and his 7 kids...only there weren't 886 of them...ohh...
is there a good site explaining how to raise the fry? I'm going to be changing my 24 gallon JBJ tank over to a seahorse tank once my 90 gallon is cycled and I move the fish over
i was just playin becuase it looked like it would be hard to count. either way that is awesome you were able to do that. im a huge fan of sea horses but im not ready to get a species only tank. do you think i could sustain them in a 29 gallon refugium with no other fishes
As long as you don't have any mean and uglies down there, i don't see why not. They like bright light to maintain color and love macroalgae to hitch on.
that's incredible, do you keep all of them, or are they sold, how do you get them out so quick, how big is the offspring tank, is there no filter in the offspring tank?
I no longer am breeding due to health reasons but to answer your questions, I sold every single one to one wholesaler that in turn sold them to all the stores in Ontario and eastern Canada. Take a look at my video "The Seahorse Ranch" it shows most of the setup. The fry tank had a sump that had a bunch of live rock in it - that was the filter, more or less.
With a lot of hard work. Appropriate water quality, appropriate live food and immediate removal from the birth tank to a more controllable environment. Success rate around 70% compared to less than 1% in the wild. Take that mother nature!
That is exactly what happens as these little guys are very weak swimmers. Some species hitch (hang on with their tails) very soon after birth which would help but h.kuda don't hitch until 2 weeks old. The only way to avoid grinding them up in the pump is to remove them immediately and put them in a setup that eliminates that risk.
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO he was bustin them out like nothin'....it looked GROSS @ first cause it was soooooooooooo many LMAOOOOO....wish men could give birth in real life!!!!
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"wish men could give birth in real life!!!!" I wish women would stop fucking complaining about giving birth. Yeah, I wish my fucking job was 9 months of being a big fat emotionally challenge bitch, then squeezing a big turd out, followed by a year of nagging the partner to do shit around the house while I watch my soap operas.
I counted them and sold them for less than I hoped :-) I sold to my local fish store for about $25 each which in turn sold them for $50. In total I raised and sold about 3000
Less the $10k I put into equipment and the 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for about a year. What sounds like a lot of money turned out to be around minimum wage. But it was a lot of fun watching them grow and playing with them all the time.
No, they are seahorses, h.kuda to be exact. Seahorses and pipefish are members of the Syngnathidae family. Pipefish swim horizontally like normal fish while seahorses swim vertically.
Wouldn't that... idk... be extremely painful to have almost 200 babies shooting out of you!?
redspottyleopards 7 months ago
How long till they are big enough to reintroduce to the main tank
MrShaun1578 8 months ago
I THOUGH THAT WAS BELLY BUTTON LINT HOLY CRAP! xP
TinaSoup 8 months ago
Rsatov, you are now considered my best "go to expert" on Seahorses. I have raised several broods also and my family room looks like your room....extension cords and tanks all over the place to house the various ages of seahorses and brine shrimp of various sizes. My question is, what type of filtration do you have on the newborn tanks? Also what was the name of that food you feed the newborns? Thanks
Nancie
csac70 10 months ago
@csac70 The fry tanks I used were simple overflow tanks with a sump full of live rock. Fry are not very tolerant of nitrate so having separate fry tanks allows large water changes between broods. Fry were fed new;y hatched brine shrimp. Brine shrimp cysts must be decapsulated and harvested within a couple of hours of hatching. Once harvested they can be kept alive in the fridge for 4 or 5 days.
rsatov 10 months ago
0:23 he shoots one out and then it gets sucked back in XD
wonderwoman978 11 months ago 4
that's actually the male. the female gives the eggs to the male and then dies.
wonderwoman978 11 months ago
@wonderwoman978 You are partially correct. the female deposits her eggs into the males pouch where they stay until he spews them out. The female does not die. Thats spiders i think :-)
rsatov 11 months ago
How many of them live?
danielabella94 1 year ago
I WANT ONE TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honeybear1001 1 year ago
They look like the spirits of dead pikmin rising to the top.
theworm788 1 year ago 5
JIZZED
IN
MY
TANK
rwarrawr 1 year ago 6
LOL on 0:07
libertyesco 1 year ago
wow how does he know when there all out??
ipodtouchfan100 1 year ago
Great question! Even I have never considered it. When he is done he fills his pouch with water repeatedly and expells itr, I always just assumed it was to keep it clean but it coulod very well be to ensure they are all out. I would also guess that he could feel them moving around. Maybe not though.
rsatov 1 year ago
@rsatov how come they have to be removed?
ts65614 1 year ago
@ts65614 from the birth tank? The tank they are born in has a regular pump and water flow that the adults need, the babies are very weak swimmers and would not survive for very long. The tank they are put in is highly controlled for water flow and uses an overflow system rather than a direct pump.
rsatov 1 year ago
I WANT ONEEE!
GazaThug777 1 year ago
RAPID FIRE
JamieEllescas 1 year ago
just spits them suckers out
Uchihamaster455 1 year ago
I kept saying "OOOH!OOOh!OOOh!" A whole bunch of babies bursting out of that seahorse. I bet its over 50 baby seahorse.
prettytp1991 1 year ago
It looks like his stomach is sneezing! LOL
immareptilefreak 1 year ago
how the fuck could you count all of them!!!?
philipkweli 1 year ago 4
Very simple. They have to immediately be removed from the tank they are born in, this is done with a turkey baster. Counting is done as they are expelled from the turkey baster.
rsatov 1 year ago
@rsatov how come they have to be removed?
ts65614 1 year ago
looks like sperm! ha.
camcam198 1 year ago 3
...Whoa.. That was like fireworks.
ACLoveer 1 year ago
rofl watch his mouth, and also its liek he's sneezing through his body... XD i love sea horses there so cute
FemRiku 1 year ago
Aw :)
NatalieGlendenning 1 year ago
so please after the 30 min of them being at the top you say what did you do with them, did they saty in that tank? did you transfer them to a different one? what did you feed them? i have had 3 batches so far........... but i have tigertail seahorses
iQu3sTioNzi 1 year ago
actually they stay at the top because of a so called air bladder which controllers their depth levels in a tank or ocean. if they stay at the top too long they develope air bubbles in their neck you can see and they become "floaters" who wont eat and die.....
iQu3sTioNzi 1 year ago
aww this is kwl
BOOMitsKRIS 1 year ago
bless you? o_o
fawlookar 1 year ago
one of those babies have gotta be saying "FIRST!" lol awesome vid!!
derynhaze 1 year ago
They're like Dandelions!! So cute!~nice.
Josheen100 2 years ago
did u no that female seahorses look like a male but the male is the one who gets prego and gives birth imagine if humans were like that tat would be ha ha halarious
TheTwilightgirl16 2 years ago
why do they go to the surface? i thought that was a bad thing O_o
elementwind91 2 years ago
They stay up there for 1/2 hour or so. My understanding is that it helps spread them around in the wild. Different species have differing habbits.
rsatov 2 years ago
wow it's weird, the baby seahorses here are so tiny and he pushes so much off them out with each push, while at the video of seahorse birthing of buschtall, the seahorse has to squeeze the babies out one by one because their so big. (and not so many)
anyway, it looks really cute, all those little babies ^^
o0sunshinebee0o 2 years ago
wow.. that's allot of babies.. do all of them survive? I hear seahorses are very hard to take care of.. is it true? I want to help these delicate species of fish their endangered..
coolcheetah102kk 2 years ago
Thats amazing!:) How do you lay eggs and tell the difference between the male and female. In the next set can i buy a male and female from you plz!!!???
mariaandcandy 2 years ago
Males have the pouch that they carry the young in and females don't. The female deposits the eggs into the males pouch where he fertilises them and when they are grown, out they come. Sorry but I am no longer breeding as is mentioned in many previous comments.
rsatov 2 years ago
Seahorses know a pregnant girls pain.
ScaredLaughs 2 years ago 5
Yes but to be fair they're not pushing out something the size of a watermelon :P
Letmehaveausername1 2 years ago
@Letmehaveausername1 might feel like one to them though. lol
elementwind91 2 years ago
What if the baby seahorse grow if no space how??
WishingBabyX 2 years ago
0_o
mudkip96 2 years ago 2
can we say "Knocked Up" lol nice videos!
stupidstickmen84 2 years ago
Yeah! :-) . . . oops, did I say that?
rsatov 2 years ago
What keeps him from eating his babies? Their so little...
Maromi13 2 years ago
Once they are born, the parents don't care for them at all but they don't eat them either.
rsatov 2 years ago
Only a male could give birth like that.
xMas7eR 2 years ago 23
I stopped beeding some time ago but I sold every one to a pet store wholesale company. This species (h.kuda) lives for 5 years. The famale deposits her eggs into the males pouch where he fertalizes them, carry's them for 2 weeks and out they pop.
rsatov 2 years ago
wow...u sure know a lot of stuff abut them..lol..but thats good though
nancym101 2 years ago
what are you gunnah do with all them sea horses lol and how long do they live for and do u have to get a girl and a boy because some fishes can have babys with out mating ?
RYZERE2K7 2 years ago
Now, thats what you call a baby machine. Where did you get your seahorse?
Deseonfire 2 years ago
From my LFS (local fish store) of course :) Any fish store that sells salt water stuff should have them.
rsatov 2 years ago
its looks fake!
xx
meghun
meghunbabes 2 years ago
why are thay going to the top? their so small ....what do they eat?
UVZombie 2 years ago
They all go to the top, I beleive to have the ocean currents disperse them to as wide an area as possible. They stay up there for a couple of hours. These ones eat baby brine shrimp, in the widl they eat anything live that is small enough to fit in their mouth.
rsatov 2 years ago
this is so beautiful
APHIDS08 2 years ago
They are incredible animals. From being the only species that the male carries the young to being the most docile critters in the sea. I have to agree with you :-)
rsatov 2 years ago
And how did you come up with that assesment? In reality, 70% survived to 3" in length and found new homes . . . happier and healthier than any wild caught seahorse and better adapted to aquarium life than the usual captive bred that are available in stores.
rsatov 2 years ago
they all died except one :(
RyanRiceHarvey195 2 years ago
it was 184 babies? I counted 185.
astarienite 2 years ago
LOL they look like little sperm
AfterShadow 2 years ago
I was at the Shedd Aquaruim, and a Seahorse in the exhibit was giving birth.
shamu636 2 years ago
After he gives birth he looks around at some of them with this look as if he's saying "Why don't any of you look like me, I thought at least 100 of you would"!
honiotes1 2 years ago
daddy dadday daddy!
babylittlekelvin 2 years ago 2
That is totally disgusting!
khrystynaaa 2 years ago
wow and by the way this is a MALE seahorse giving birth,,, because in seahorse land what the chicks do is put her eggs in his pouch [the hole shooting out the kids] and he fertilizes them while he i pregnant for about 3 weeks the he goes in exhausting labor for about 3 days then he get pregnant again, because that's what dude seahorses do to get attention and girls... funny right
crnagoraforever 2 years ago
for 3 DAYS?! I'm soooo glad I'm not a seahorse!
xoxoDayDreamingxoxo 2 years ago
theres like a million. best way of giving birth by the looks of it though.
BOOSHBOYDOM 2 years ago
*cough* ah what was that...*cough* *cough* oh my god
what the fuck is going on!!! *cough* jezus christ
it's little clones of me!!@@!@@ *Cough* *cough*
*cough!!!* well that's pretty sweet atcually....
LET'S GO CREW!
LOL that's how she could have reacted ;) or maybe
she does O_o
arelius536 2 years ago 15
haha funny!!! but the male gives birth, not female! lol, just informing you! :D
familyguy711 2 years ago 2
oh weird....but uhmm... rsatov did you really like
count them all, cause that must have been a horror...
P.S. baby seahorses are AWESOME!
arelius536 2 years ago
@arelius536 HE! HE COULD HAVE REACTED-IT'S THE MALE!!!
wonderwoman978 9 months ago
THAT'S ALOT!!!!!
MarcT1995 2 years ago
wow they come out in groups...I like seahorses :)
MightyCharger17 2 years ago
Ok those are so amazing. I want one
rickstauc1 2 years ago
Although I no longer breed them, their survival rate was around 70% to maturity compared to less than 1% in the wild.
rsatov 2 years ago
how many of them will live? theres so many i couldnt imagine them all surviving
KUPHSER 2 years ago
Now that's absolutely beautiful. ♥
WhiteWave14 2 years ago
there all swimming away!
sillysillyllama123 2 years ago
this is so cuteee
HottieNicole622 2 years ago
bad news, seehorse babies... there ain't nothin up there.
kittensurprise 2 years ago
oh ty now ino hahaha silly me lol
chonnar911 2 years ago
wait the males have the babies OMG
chonnar911 3 years ago
see what happens is that the female puts the eggs or w.e in the males pouch so he carries them around untill they hatch...he doesnt make them he just lets them grow inside and then as u can see lets them out like he just nuted lol
magnezone876 3 years ago 2
The female deposits her eggs and then the male fertilizes them on the way in, then he carries them til they pop out.
rsatov 2 years ago
oo lol well my theory was 10% correct lol about the putting them in the pouch
magnezone876 2 years ago
we'll give you 80% as all you missed was the fertilization . . . suprisingly enough, although not scientific, roughly the same amount of people know the males carry the young as beleive seahorses area mythical creature. It's true!
rsatov 2 years ago
crazy i wish i could get one but they dont live very long
magnezone876 2 years ago
You just lost another 20% :) This particular species has a lifespan of about 5 years.
rsatov 2 years ago
you fucking serious.......wow
well thanks for the info lol
magnezone876 2 years ago
This is the best Youtube comment thread I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing that video, and answering everybody's questions.
brianisinyou 3 years ago 2
If there is at least one male and one female you can likely count on babies eventually. One problem with using the same tank is the fry require very low water flow as they are weak swimmers while the parents need more water flow. Feeding could be another problem as well as maintaining acceptable water quality as you cannot remove the waste from a norrmal setup. Not to say it can't be done but it would pose some obstacles.
rsatov 3 years ago
ohh now i see why ;)
charzarg 3 years ago
hey rsatov, i'm setting up my 5gt long tank as marine and i was thinking maybe i was gonna just have about 6 seahorses, don't worry i've done my hwk on them ;)
But i was wondering, if they DID give birth, which i guess my chances are slim, can i not just devide the tank into two halves and put babies in one, adults in the other?? :/
thanks for any help :D
charzarg 3 years ago
WOW thats a lot of babies :D
swills96 3 years ago
You can't tell until the males begin to develop their brood pouch, somewhere around 12 weeks. If you look carefully at the area immediately below the belly, where the tail begins, you can see a V shape that will become the pouch. Males have a pouch, femaels don't.
rsatov 3 years ago
I counted them as they must be removed from the birth tank immediately upon birth. Later broods exceeded 500 and counting was a real bummer but I did it. Although selling them did add to my income, the reality is the cost to set up and maintain them was close to the revenue generated. Not being close to the ocean for water/food means it all has to be bought.
rsatov 3 years ago
How do u find out which baby seahorse is a girl and which ones a boy?
SweetCheeks818 3 years ago
Wow, there comes in about $1000 into your income if you sell them.
Biocube14 3 years ago
Sorry if you sold them for $30 a piece that's $5220 if there were actually 184 if that's not a random number. Don't feel bad if it is random I love making up random numbers.
Biocube14 3 years ago
what do yu feed the baby seahorses?
boihaggos1 3 years ago
The babys are fed newly hatched (less than 2 hours) san fanscisco strain brine shrimp. The Brine shrimp "eggs" are chemically treated with bleach to remove the shell so the baby seahorses don't acidentally eat a shell and choke on it. The San fransico strain is the smallest specie of brine shrimp.
rsatov 3 years ago
crazy sexy cool
TaraZamara 3 years ago
Question: Why do all the fries swim up to the top of the tank?
thematt778 3 years ago
One theory is, to allow them to be disbursed over a wider area by the ocean currents. Others are they have no control of their air sac immediately at birth and most marine critters are attracted to light and it is brightest at the top. They stay up there for a couple of hours.
rsatov 3 years ago
lluvia d caballitos d mar :D
belixita 3 years ago
It's very beautiful.
And to tell the truth I couldn't stop laughing when I was voicing the dad, you should try it too!
The Daddy Seahorse: Okay, you can do this, Henry...You can do this..OOHH!..ah..there's one..and now.wha...WHAT THE!?..-explodes them out-..UUUAAAAAAAAUUGGGRRRRRGGGGHHH!!! UAAAH! UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! URRAAAHHHHHHH!!!!...Ugh! UAHHHHHH!...UaH! AH!....Ooo...oh...I guess this is what it feels like to be Mel Gibson and his 7 kids...only there weren't 886 of them...ohh...
DarkToboki 3 years ago
Hehe, your right! it is kinda fun . . .
rsatov 3 years ago
a lot of cute babies
starbabe58 3 years ago
is there a good site explaining how to raise the fry? I'm going to be changing my 24 gallon JBJ tank over to a seahorse tank once my 90 gallon is cycled and I move the fish over
dgeddings 3 years ago
Oh my fucking shit
sasusaku187 3 years ago
As many people know it's the male as beleive seahorses are a myth. Funny.
rsatov 3 years ago
HOLY FUCK
Taurianbelles 3 years ago 2
Most people say "Oh my god" but that works too :-)
rsatov 3 years ago
idk y but that looks SOOOOOO painful and nasty to me...but I cant look away lol its amazing...
Goodfella520 3 years ago
holy shit
pQcs 3 years ago
i was just playin becuase it looked like it would be hard to count. either way that is awesome you were able to do that. im a huge fan of sea horses but im not ready to get a species only tank. do you think i could sustain them in a 29 gallon refugium with no other fishes
datsun510wanted 3 years ago
As long as you don't have any mean and uglies down there, i don't see why not. They like bright light to maintain color and love macroalgae to hitch on.
rsatov 3 years ago
i actually counted 209
datsun510wanted 3 years ago
You'll have to count again as they were counted as they were removed from the birth tank immediately after the vid was shot.
rsatov 3 years ago
do they all survive? i dont have a clue about sea life but i kno that some animals that lay a batch of babies and only a few survive.
chrisjenkins3 3 years ago
lol its sneezes them out ahchoo!
Kalashniikovv 3 years ago
The male seahorse is firing the babies to the pretator...
flowerable 3 years ago
lmao, thats weird. and male seahorses, are the ones that give birth
raymolicious0x 3 years ago
that is WILD!
luvskaos 3 years ago
omg its sneezing babies!!
psycholllsmiley 3 years ago
that's incredible, do you keep all of them, or are they sold, how do you get them out so quick, how big is the offspring tank, is there no filter in the offspring tank?
charzarg 3 years ago
I no longer am breeding due to health reasons but to answer your questions, I sold every single one to one wholesaler that in turn sold them to all the stores in Ontario and eastern Canada. Take a look at my video "The Seahorse Ranch" it shows most of the setup. The fry tank had a sump that had a bunch of live rock in it - that was the filter, more or less.
rsatov 3 years ago
hehe. I've seen all of your video's, it's a shame you aren't breeding any more, I bet you helped this species conservation status a lot!!!
:)
charzarg 3 years ago
actually this is a male seahorse... female seahorses transfers their egg to the males pouch wherein it fertilizes... then kaboom one blow...
prinzdeath00X 3 years ago
DAMN!! that was a crazy, its just started to shoot out wow lol
besides the filter death, how do they survive?
pacboy24 3 years ago
With a lot of hard work. Appropriate water quality, appropriate live food and immediate removal from the birth tank to a more controllable environment. Success rate around 70% compared to less than 1% in the wild. Take that mother nature!
rsatov 3 years ago
whoaaa 184! soo many! did you have to count them one by one?
ixivietqtixi 3 years ago
It is the only way . . . as they are removed they are counted.
rsatov 3 years ago
That is exactly what happens as these little guys are very weak swimmers. Some species hitch (hang on with their tails) very soon after birth which would help but h.kuda don't hitch until 2 weeks old. The only way to avoid grinding them up in the pump is to remove them immediately and put them in a setup that eliminates that risk.
rsatov 3 years ago
woa!
sexyhmong26 3 years ago
Whoa! One hard push and 20 come out
whateverapolo 3 years ago
that was kinda cute!
Flyleafrocs33333 3 years ago
dont worry seahorse
all u have to do is push
hooper2345 3 years ago
that was pretty cute!
zzALIASzz 3 years ago
OMFG !!!!!!!!!! THA WAS AWESOME!!!!
RuneScapeSalva 3 years ago
that is crazy amazing.
placidictim 3 years ago
i though it was homo sapien
XSCETCH4 3 years ago
sneezing babies lol it does look like it thoguh :S
psycholllsmiley 3 years ago
hahah... he's just sneezing out the babies. =S
girltarist 3 years ago
Is it really named 'kuda' seahorse? because in Malay 'kuda' actually means 'horse'.
jedaqia 3 years ago
the species is h.kuda (hippocampus kuda)Google will find you a ton of information on all 32 species of seahorses if you are interested.
rsatov 3 years ago
awesome
jkl1234567890 3 years ago
ew again, that looks so disgusting...makes my skin crawl
momodani7 4 years ago
ew again, that looks so disgusting...makes my skin crawl
momodani7 4 years ago
it almost looks animated
momodani7 4 years ago
yeah thats what i thought
narutorocks315 4 years ago
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO he was bustin them out like nothin'....it looked GROSS @ first cause it was soooooooooooo many LMAOOOOO....wish men could give birth in real life!!!!
momodani7 4 years ago 4
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"wish men could give birth in real life!!!!" I wish women would stop fucking complaining about giving birth. Yeah, I wish my fucking job was 9 months of being a big fat emotionally challenge bitch, then squeezing a big turd out, followed by a year of nagging the partner to do shit around the house while I watch my soap operas.
jamesgn20 4 years ago
Wow, your mom went through all of that for a "homo erectus" like you? God bless her heart! :)
momodani7 4 years ago
Atleast I am a "homo erectus" you monkey.
jamesgn20 3 years ago
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so lame....(yawn)
momodani7 3 years ago
did you know that all unborn babys are really a form of parasite.
psychoface665 3 years ago
im kidding of corse.
psychoface665 3 years ago
this is soooo cool!!!
Dancerfromheaven1993 4 years ago
wow
little dots for 25 dollars o.0
they should be 25 cents ...
xxxnoway 4 years ago
well, after the 26 weeks of care it takes to get those little dots to a point htat the average person can care for them, they are cheap at $25
rsatov 4 years ago
this was amazing :)
cheesehats12 4 years ago
this was so beautiful, thank you so much!
sarahissoawesome 4 years ago
how do you know how many he gave birth to???? and how much did you sell them for???????
kari2605 4 years ago
I counted them and sold them for less than I hoped :-) I sold to my local fish store for about $25 each which in turn sold them for $50. In total I raised and sold about 3000
rsatov 4 years ago
wo so you made 60 thousand :O
donghyunwon610 4 years ago
Less the $10k I put into equipment and the 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for about a year. What sounds like a lot of money turned out to be around minimum wage. But it was a lot of fun watching them grow and playing with them all the time.
rsatov 4 years ago
are they gulf pipefish?
aprilspence4evr 4 years ago
No, they are seahorses, h.kuda to be exact. Seahorses and pipefish are members of the Syngnathidae family. Pipefish swim horizontally like normal fish while seahorses swim vertically.
rsatov 4 years ago