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Old 03-09-2003, 08:01 PM
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Hi. YGPM.
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Old 03-15-2003, 12:47 AM
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Bump up to the top.

Has anyone found a place that sells captive bred seahorses?
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Old 03-15-2003, 04:58 AM
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I found one place in Hawaii, but they won't ship to Canada... I used to have a post office box in Blaine and get my shippments delivered there and just drive across the boarder with them. I have been thinking of doing it again and getting half a dozen dwarf seahorses but I am out of tanks and space right now....
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Old 03-15-2003, 06:21 AM
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Some time ago, I went to visit a local sea horse importer (of captive breds).

Hers all came in from Australia and were 90+% success on shipping. We spent some time there, and bought the book, and I have been looking for it ever since this thread started.....

We just decided they were not really that interesting as a total tank focus. I can see now, however, they don't have to be.
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Old 03-15-2003, 07:09 PM
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Someone emailed me about this importer, so I dug up her webpage:

http://www.aquaparadice.com/
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Old 03-16-2003, 05:31 AM
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Thanks Emily I emailed her and got a reply.
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Old 03-16-2003, 05:36 AM
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hippocampi are available regularly at a few albertan LFS', so they are obviously available somehow fairly easily.
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Old 03-30-2003, 03:55 AM
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Today I got two black kudas, they were wild caught unfortunately but, they are eating in my refugium. I tried to feed them frozen brine shrimp and frozen plankton but they didn't show any interest in it, as the pods came out to feed on the frozen food the seahorses perked right up and started chowing down.

I have a massive pod population so I think they will have enough food until they figure out how to eat frozen stuff.

In the mean time I am setting up my brine shrimp hatchery again, just incase they eat the pods faster than they can reproduce.
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Old 03-30-2003, 12:57 PM
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hippocampi are available regularly at a few albertan LFS', so they are obviously available somehow fairly easily.
AI in Edmonton had a few different species of sea horses when I was there yesterday. Saltwater Fantasies sometimes has them too.
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Old 03-30-2003, 03:31 PM
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Emily gave me a contact in Alberta, she imports Seahorses from austrailia and then sells them in Canada. The bad thing is she is very expensive,$50 each for them. If it were easier to cross the border right now I would just order them from a breeder in Hawaii and have them shipped to a PO box in blaine and then carry them accross the border myself. I can get real nice Pygmys from a breeder in Hawaii for a song, for $50US I could get a breeding pair with their offspring.

Shipping would probably be expensive though.
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