ok call me crazy but i was thinking of a new plan for my 60 gallon hex live stock. because my tank is so tall and not that much wide i was thinking of what fish will be perfect for the tank i have and the fish that came to my mind immediately was seahorses. i was reading upon them and i was thinking to keep a mandarin fish, blue spotted jawfish and a percula clownfish with it. i was looking at the yellow hippocampus reidi. i know i am going to be limited on the corals i can keep with seahorses. i know i am very limited on lps corals and i was thinking of only keeping candy canes and acans. and i am getting rid of all the rest of my lps corals. i know i am not limited on softies. one question i have is i have been reading mixed reviews about sps corals with seahorses. like they say they are fine with them because they don't sting but it is not good with seahorses because they require high flow and seahorses like medium to low flow. but i was reading as long as there is some spots that have medium flow so they can rest and hitch on something than it is fine to have sps corals. i was also reading in a tall tank like my hex tank that i could have all the sps corals at the top and mainly keep all the strong flow at the top of the tank. what do you guys think of this? does anybody have seahorses that can give me some pointers?
60 gallon hex reef tank stocking??
- Thread starter jenniferroman
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JMO, I would not do LPS (which the exception of Acans and Chalices, both of those can do fine in lower flow/lower light tanks) or SPS corals in a Seahorse tank. For the most part, both of those types of corals require more flow than seahorses care for. Also, I would not recommend a mandarin with seahorses unless you have a refugium equal to the size display tank you have just to be able to grow enough copepods to feed both seahorses and a mandarin. They need A LOT of pods, more than you could ever imagine. Just a mandarin fish can easily eat over 300 pods a day, and I bet a seahorse could match that. So to put that into perspective, a bottle of Tigger Pods has about 1000 pods in the bottle, and cost $30 per bottle, this would be enough food for 2 seahorses and 1 mandarin for 24 hours... so you either need to have a small fortune to buy the food or have a very large and very established refugium to support the food population for those fish. Something to think about.
