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SeahorseHatchery is a spawning and hatching system to breed portuguese seahorses. We are marine biologists.

Hippocampus hippocampus
Small seahorses
Copepods and nauplii

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What We Do.

SeahorseHatchery is a place for breeding, hatching and rearing through the early life stages of two seahorses species, originally from Sado Estuary,Portugal.We maintain a large population for the protection of genetic variability.

Multiply and Feed

Seahorses, Mysis and Copepods.

Seahorses broodstock are maintain indoor, mimetizing natural habitats. Small seahorses are reared in aquaria with controlled conditions. Food are mysis and copepods collected from natural lakes or reared indoor.

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Hippocampus hippocampus and Hippocampus guttullatus

Two species living together

Hippocampus hippocampus and Hippocampus guttullatus

We maintain seahorses in mesocosm, mimetizing natural habitat.

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Hippocampus hippocampus

7-months-old

Seahorses together.

Ususally, short-snout seahorse stay linked each other.

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Seahorse juveniles

2-months-old

Juvenile seahorses

Together, juvenile seahorses eats a "cloud" of copepods.

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Seahorses

3-days-old

juveniles

Near the water surface, seahorses capture small copepods and nauplii.

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Copepods

Acartia tonsa

Acartia tonsa

Acartia tonsa is one of the marine copepods preferred by seahorse juveniles.

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Mysisdaceae

Opossum shrimp is daily given to raised seahorses

Mysidaceae

Male and female individuals.

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Where to Find Us

Rua Padre Américo Faria nº1 B
2910-146, Setúbal,
Portugal

Email Us At

alfinetes@sapo.pt

Call Us At

(+351)962003530