Seahorses

[Awesomeeagle]

Can seahorses co-exist with anemone? Pls help.

[Billy]

I have never owned seahorses, but after seeing a fabulous seahorse
exibit at the Newport Aquarium in Oregon, I did some research. Most
of the resources I found seemed to recommend very little in the tank
other than the seahorses. One or two authors kept corals, but only
gorgonian and similar. Some of them kept fish, but only dedicated
herbivores, and very mellow ones at that.
I would have to assume that the horses would eventually blunder
into the anemone, and be consumed.

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"Awesomeeagle" > wrote in message
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> Can seahorses co-exist with anemone? Pls help.
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[Don Geddis]

"Awesomeeagle" > wrote on Fri, 27 May 2005:
> Can seahorses co-exist with anemone?

Not really. Seahorses do best in a species-specific tank. Among other things,
most reef animals/corals/fish seen in the aquarium hobby are generally used to
surging tide (high current) conditions, whereas seahorses are poor swimmers
and require very gentle current.

For the case of anemones in particular, they typically view seahorses as
delicious hard candy. Most fish can swim away from an anemone's tentacles,
but seahorses are such weak swimmers that when they get caught, they get stuck
and reeled in for a meal.

So no, seahorses can't coexist for long in a tank that also has an anemone.

-- Don
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