TV being converted into 30g seahorse tank

[tim the toolman]

Originally Posted by rayjay

Tim, while enrichment of the brine shrimp is an excellent move, medicine uptake of the brine is just gut loading meds, not enrichment.
The protocol for protozoans would require a 3 drug, 9 week treatment as found on seahorse.org. Even after this treatment, success in mixing the different sygnathids is not guaranteed to be without losses.
As for enrichment, it's always a good idea, but Dans Feed from seahorsesource.com is the best you can buy for syngnathidae.
Also, it stores longer than the selco/selcon emulsions and has a higher DHA profile than even DHA Selcon has.

Thank you for the info. I was looking at just doing a very standard protozoan med in the form of metroplex. I guess based on this info it will not be enough. So is this also to say that the protozoan will always be present regardless of how long they live in captivity. And yes I did mean gut loading the brine by simply adding the meds in with the brine shrimp feed. I have researched many sites since deciding to go this route and have found quite a number of cases where seahorses and pipes have been kept healthily together. Also it seems that the cases of disease usually occured from the horses carrying the disease, which is why I am going with true captive breds. I should also mention that the LFS I purchased the pipes from did say they were captive bred but they were unable to verify if it was aquarium breeding or ocean captivity breeding.