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@@MegaMaddydog I’m fascinated by lighthouses. It looks like this one is a public operated lighthouse, which was taken over by the US Coast Guard in 1939. So it looks like it is still in use.

@@bloodandviolence8156 this video might give a an idea of your potential for success czcams.com/video/ovqK9RcInJQ/video.htmlsi=b_dvh4k4dl9rqozv

@@user-cr3db2uv4y thank you!

@@MegaMaddydog I will probably start off trading them with a local fish store. Not sure about selling. I guess I’ll see how it goes.

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Thanks, Bonnie! That's what is what I am going for. I'm working to improve my narration on these types of videos as they are new for me. I hope will get better.

@@MegaMaddydog it was amazing to watch.

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Pets indeed are great models for loving relationships.

Thank you Bonnie. It's good to connect with others who can relate to the experience.

Wow. A dream about a toad! What a coincidence.

@@cassy8834 so kind! Thank you for sharing that. I may give it a try thanks to your suggestion! I guess I will see what happens.

@@cassy8834 yes! I don’t know any other animal on earth where the male gives birth to the young

Holy cow! That would’ve been a good recording. I would’ve loved to have seen that!

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@@VendettaAllspice they can if they live in a mostly cool climate or have a chiller installed on their aquariums. PBS are temperate water species and should not be kept in temperatures above 68*F

@@cowfishpro Thank You 🙏

Yep! Once the female ripenripens the eggs and delivers them into the male’s pouch. The male carries them until he gives birth.

@@lennylunden835 thanks for asking! You are absolutely correct. This video talks about the process with dwarf seahorses, but it is almost exactly the same for the larger seahorses. czcams.com/video/o85cbeKQmBI/video.htmlsi=nqC1e8ZzIakS9_Og

Here’s another related video. czcams.com/video/eMiXnZrp_d8/video.htmlsi=lOVOkQ_V8nvnkxGZ

@@MegaMaddydog thanks! How much longer before you are ready for yours?

@@cowfishpro well I have the Rodi unit set. I have decide on a good tank and if I want a sump or not. I really don’t want a sump With all That plumbing needed. I thought a couple of hang on ba is could take care of 75 gallon tank

@@MegaMaddydog if you go for HOB filters, I highly recommend 2 fluval aquaclear 100 filters along with a couple of power heads with capacity of 500-750gph. You would need to rinse out the foam, or if you opt instead to use a filter pad, at least one a week.

@@luxnatsoap I do not use an air stone. Here is a link to a more extended video that may answer your questions. Let me know if you need any other information. czcams.com/video/dpprARerMug/video.htmlsi=akWf8qZgl3pMTdBg

@@MegaMaddydog it really is amazing Bonnie. Maybe it’s just the way I was raised. But I have a hard time envisioning a situation where I would just completely walk away from my home or land.

@@cowfishpro I agree. Maybe these people had situations out of their control. Repairs that were very costly and maybe lost their jobs. I feel bad for people who have tried and still struggle with having a stable home to live in. Especially the children. 😔

@@MegaMaddydog thanks Bonnie! It was a great trip. I had never been to New Mexico before so I enjoyed the experience.

@@davidblack7184 thanks for your thoughts. In my humble opinion, I don’t really think it makes that much of a difference being in tapwater for just a few minutes. I am curious though, do you keep our old water refrigerated so that you can thaw shrimp? It is important that very cold Water is used for defrosting purposes.

@@MegaMaddydog yes! They really are growing and turning into beautiful colors. It’s amazing. They are a really nice distraction after just losing my dog recently.

@@PotooBurd you are so kind! Thank you.

@@PotooBurd thank you! It’s unbelievable how hard it can be. Very heartbreaking.

@@MegaMaddydog glad to hear it! Thanks for the inspiration.

@@PotooBurd those are great ideas. I’m curious if you actually do this. I used to do it with copepods but then the whole culture was destroyed because it got too hot outside. Where I live now we’ve been having record heat waves so that wouldn’t work for me right now. I am curious if you do do this, how are you able to collect what you need.

@@cowfishpro When raising fry I float a deli cup (with tiny holes made with a pin) and add my daphnia, only the tiny daphnia and moina can get out ( the natural flow will slowly disperse them) I don’t see how this wouldn’t work with amphipods and copepods. (Maybe poke larger holes for the scuds?) The adults continue to feed and reproduce. To keep the deli cup from sinking you can secure it with fishing line through one of the holes and tape the string to the outside of the tank. To collect and separate adults from smaller scuds I use a standard fish net with a brine shrimp net / reusable stainless coffee filter. Then I turkey baster them and feed. Bummer about the heat at your area. I keep 5 gallon buckets of daphnia magna, moina, and scuds. I have 2 larger cultures outside one in a shady place and one with limited sunlight. For food- I’ve had the best luck with giving them 1 (organic) piece of veggie at a time, (green beans, broccoli, carrots) they benefit greatly from green water. to make green water with no culture ,I take the mulm from my sponge filter and crush up organic boiled broccoli, or green beans and put it a covered (I cut a clear food delivery bag and bull dog clip it to the rim) place the 5 gallon bucket in a place that gets partial sun. Mix daily or every other day (i keep a stick near them to stir it up) the benefit of green water is that it’s harder to over feed… The majority of my losses came from over feeding, and over population. Once I had to restart everything from just a few scuds in my main tank- it took a month to recover the cultures back to a harvestable level. As for supplies I get my substrate from hardware stores, they are sold in big 25-50lbs bags at a good price. Sand, gravel, lava rock, river stones. Just rinse them thoroughly and they are good to go. I also get the 5 gallon buckets from the hardware store.

@@PotooBurd sounds interesting and very doable. I’m trying to keep things pretty simple right now because I anticipate in my future I will have baby horses that I will attempt to raise. So that will require more time and space. I’m experimenting right now with keeping those mesh bath scrubbing pads in my sump. A lot of the scuds seem to end up in my sump. So I thought why not just let them collect and reproduce in the bath, scrubbing pads, and then shake them out when I’m ready to add some back into the main tank. I may do a video on it. But I think you’re right, I tried setting up a culture in a 20 gallon long and I think it got either overfed or overpopulated because it wasn’t able to continue.

@@cowfishpro sounds neat! I hope it can turn into an infinite seahorse snack cycle 🙌

@@MegaMaddydog they are both so pretty but I think I’m partial to the white.

@@LabraliaAllen how fun!

@@MegaMaddydog when my last one passed on, I needed to simplify some things in my life because I was working on my doctorate back then. Part of that process was converting the tank back to freshwater, and I kept fancy goldfish in there for a long time. They were very easy to maintain compared to a saltwater tank. Over the years I did have problems with toxins with cowfish. In fact, I learned more about cowfish than I could find information on, so Iused to write aquarium magazine articles about them. If I ever go back to them, I may do videos and talk about the toxins. Hard experiences, but I learned so much.

@@MegaMaddydog thank you! I’ve watched it over a few times now. And cried just about every time. I picked up his remains today and cried so hard. I made my husband cry too.

@@MegaMaddydog I don’t do anything special. I collect the seeds from the current years pumpkin. Let them dry naturally. After they’ve been cleaned up as much as possible. And then I grab a dozen or so and store them in an envelope. I keep them in a cool dry place and replant them the following year. I’ll probably do a video on it this year since you asked. Other people may want to know as well. Those pumpkins are super huge right now so I will have to do an update video pretty soon.

@@cowfishpro thank you. I would love a video

@@MegaMaddydog anything live added to the tank is a potential risk. This includes macro algae, peppermint shrimp, ghost shrimp, cleaner shrimp, copepods, amphipods, live sand, or live rock. It is a matter of weighing the risk against the longevity of the Seahorses. Usually, if you can order from reliable sources that tend to have clean, cured or cultured offerings, that is best. But it is not always possible. Although it is not a complete answer, I do have some comfort that I have an ultraviolet sterilizer on my aquarium. The cleaner shrimp help with removing parasites from the Seahorses and keeping up sea horse health provides them an immune system that works against potential bacteria or parasites.

Yes. I love them. So delicious. It seems right around 5 years is the mark when the vines starting reaching high levels of productivity.

Thanks for your enthusiasm. There really wasn't a lot to see in that tiny cemetery, but it was fun to be there.

It did not. I'm not sure if it is worth doing a follow up video. I was disappointed that it didn't make it through even one winter because it is so hardy.