Was it Beth that told you they were eating finely chopped frozen food?
I got dwarfs from Beth at Seahorse Corral in Florida and they wouldn't eat enough frozen anything to survive. They would pick at some occasionally but they certainly couldn't sustain themselves long term.
A good life span for dwarfs is 1 1/2 to 2 years.
If you check on seahorse.org, I think you won't find anyone who has been able to get the dwarfs to sustain themselves on frozen foods of any kind, shaved or not.
I've always had to use enriched (with Dan's Feed from seahorsesource.com) brine nauplii.
I believe Yvette is feeding hers enriched brine nauplii and possibly some of the copepods she is culturing.
This is from the seahorsecorral website.
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Our dwarves will pick at frozen cyclops but to ensure really good health they require a feed of live baby brine shrimp daily
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IMO, they should have at least TWO daily feedings of live enriched baby brine shrimp. Remember too that you have to grow the shrimp out for a day after hatching until they develop a full digestive tract. Up to then they cannot feed and thus cannot be enriched.