Ok, I do have ghost/glass shrimp on hand, some are less than a 1/2 inch. I gutload these with cyclop-eeze before feeding my seahorses. I also have some hawaian red volcano shrimp live, that I feed my horses which came from ocean rider(seahorse farm). I have removed most of the snails from the tank but there are a few bumblebee's and astreas left. Any chance it will eat them? I could also get tiny blue leg and halloween crabs at my local reef shop that are less than a 1/2 inch in size for a buck a piece if it won't eat any of the other stuff I mentioned. Feeding this baby is going to be somewhat different than feeding an adult, everything is gonna have to be tiny!
I'm so excited! I am a bit worried though. I read a post about a baby octo that arrived dead in a bag of inked water. I sure hope this is the exception and not the norm. Fed Ex doesn't arrive in my neighborhood until mid afternoon, so my stomach will stay "knotted up" until then. I guess the good thing is that you don't have to worry as much about them getting cold in shipping since they're sub-tropical. My last mail order was a couple captive bred tropical seahorses shipped from Hawaii. They were 2 days in transit and while there were 2 heat packs in with them, they were still really cold when they got here. They did survive though, and are happy, healthy and growing like weeds now!
I've got a few more questions about habitat and intellectual stimulation, but I'll start a new post about that. Thanks so much for your advice.
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