seahorse

[dreminon]

anyone have any experience keeping any? have an idea to take my 75 gal and put egg crate for lighting down center to separate tank in half but still let water flow through. and on side with return and intake have return pointed at angle put one small power head probably one I'm hopefully going to win on the side. keep clowns and a BTA on that side and on other side keep a pair of seahorses. that way they do not get to much flow plus have enough for the BTA

[cdeboard]

Dont seahorses need a colder temp?

[cdeboard]

If not, a bud on another forum built a viewable hole in his stand for his fuge. That would be cool as the seahorse section

[dreminon]

yeah they need to be kept at like 74deg

[dreminon]

probally end up either doing seahorse or clowns not both. dont know how clowns would take lower temps

[dreminon]

man tell you one thing its hard to find very much on seahorse tanks. all can really find is like it at 74 no coral with sweepers, don't like bright light, don't like a lot of flow, and have a bunch of stuff for them to hang on to, umm and buy from reputable sites.

[cdeboard]

Yeah. Decent size tank. Hob skimmer. Lots algae. Im not a fan but all women are. Not sure why

[mcox33]

Aug 2, 2009 21:42:57 GMT -5 dreminon said:

man tell you one thing its hard to find very much on seahorse tanks. all can really find is like it at 74 no coral with sweepers, don't like bright light, don't like a lot of flow, and have a bunch of stuff for them to hang on to, umm and buy from reputable sites.

I kept a pair of seahorses for quiet awhile, in a 20 tall, emperor 400 HOB filter and a jebo hang in tank skimmer.

The only problem I had was keeping food, brine shrimp are hard to get, shipping sucks, summer is to hot winter to cold. New born guppies will also work for food. But even guppies can only have babies so fast and they eat alot. Oh yeah it had a 65 watt pc and a 1 watt moonlight on the tank.

just make sure you can raise brine shrimp to adulthood before trying seahorses. That is a requirement for keeping them alive in my experience.

[ADMIN]

Actually if you buy tank raised SHs they do fine on mysis shrimp. As for live brine it's hard to find ( for now ), but that's another story.

[dreminon]

most of the decent places I have found that sell them already have them eating frozen mysis. so live food is not much of a problem.

[boggs32]

seahorse.com is a good place to get info on seahorses. Theres a forum I used over there while I had my tank up and running. I had true percs in with mine and all was well. Best of luck to anyone doing seahorses. They are difficult. If you get them older than a year old you will have better luck but everything must stay the same, and if you add anything (corals, fish, etc) make sure you quarentine them for a while first.

[ADMIN]

If you want to try them, my advice is go with ORA tank raised, they do great. I don't suggest keeping them with other fish as they are slow eaters and will not compete for food with others. If your up to the challenge try keeping them with some pipe fish but make sure the tank is set up just for these creatures only. Do this and you should have no problems. I have had several customers who I have helped with horse systems it just comes down to learning what the animals need and giving them nothing more.

[dreminon]

yeah thats what I have found out. so far looks like all really need for it would be
1. Tank min of 29 gal have a 75
2. sump tank have 20 Long ill make into one
3. small protin skimmer
4. return pump
5. macro algea
6. and things for horses to hitch to
7. live rock and sand
8. little lights just what is needed for macro algea
and maybe a chiller if fan wont bring temp down to 75

[ADMIN]

You wont need a chiller, as for lights standard out puts will do fine.
Skimmer sump will be needed for anything over 29 g. With a 29 G you can just use a good HOB filter, it's old school but without coral you should not have as much waste and threats of aleopathic reactions to worry about. Plus you will be doing water changes every week or so to keep them happy, so no need for a skimmer in a smaller tank either, of course they help but in a 29 G technically with that much macro algae, frequent water changes, and no fish it should be a clean tank.

[dreminon]

ill be doing it in the 75 if I decided to get them. but it wont take to much more than what I have now so I might

[ADMIN]

With a 75 you have a good chance of them breeding as well, it would be a great tank if you can find some rare sea grasses it would look amazing.

[dreminon]

but with the sea grass id need upgraded lighting. or so I have read

[L0S3R]

Go with PCs or somehting cheap. You wouldnt need ALOT nor anything special.

It would be interesting seeing a seahorse tank build. Theres 1 on you know where. The guy has a awesome camera. He has pics of the eggs zoomed in all the way up to the juveniles. They took off in his tank. I would love to see something like that locally.

[dreminon]

thought I read that seagrass needed more but macro didnt need that much. ill have to look into it

[dreminon]

found all kinds of places for macros but where can I buy seagrass?

[dreminon]

think ill just go with macros got a bunch of cool looking red and green ones just grow like four or five diffrent ones

[ADMIN2]

I believe you can use halimedia instead of seagrass. I think the seagrass is used as a place to anchor. If you need some halimedia let me know.

[dreminon]

ok cool