Sea horse keepers?

MonoSebaelover

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Apr 20, 2001
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Just checking to see if anyone else on this board keeps sea ponies. I currently have a brillian yellow Reidi Female and a gorgeous black male with tons of white spots (not ich the little glowing dots in his color) all over in a 20H. He is so pretty. I am hoping they breed and will produce cool little babies. Anyway just checking to see if there are any other sea horse keepers on board.
 
They are not as difficult to feed depending on how you acquire them. I was actually lucky enough to be in my LFS during feeding when their seahorses were eating frozen brine shrimp. I ended up buying a male and female. I still however, feed them live brine shrimp most of the time. I would ask your LFS to feed them in front of you if you plan on buying them.

Awestralian, if you plan on keeping seahorses in a tropical heated tank I would avoid your local ones. The ones around NSW are coldwater species and often die in a heated tank. The tropical ones we get come from Bali.
 
My seahorse tank is just a 20G with an undergravel filter run by a small Aquaclear powerhead (Of my 9 tanks this is the only one I use UGF). I know UGF filters are usually non-favoured, but if you only feed the correct amount, the seahorses don't produce enough wastes to ever burden a UGF. The owner of my LFS keeps a colony of seahorses at home using UGF. I do however use a leftover eheim spraybar on the powerhead to reduce the blast of current.

Other than that I just have a fine crushed coral substrate, and I use a plastic coral to provide them with a hitching post. I also use a Seachem Ammonia Alert to give me any warning if a spike should occur.
 
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