Seahorses.....

[Michael Lawford]

Anypone here keep seahorses or ever tried to keep them?

How are they doing?

~m

[George Patterson]

Michael Lawford wrote:
> Anypone here keep seahorses or ever tried to keep them?

I tried to keep them many years ago.

They do not swim well, so you need to keep the water fairly still.
Unfortunately, other things in the tank usually require that water be
circulating. That's one problem you'll have to solve.

They need branchy stuff to hang on to. Dead coral is too rough for this - it
will work, but they don't like it. They usually hang onto things like kelp in
the wild. Some people anchor tree twigs in the tank to handle this.

In a non-reef tank, they are very hard to feed. Sometimes you can get one to
take live brine shrimp, but they really prefer smaller stuff. Mandarin Gobies
have the same sort of eating habits - if you can keep a Mandarin healthy, you
probably won't have problems feeding seahorses. A reef tank is more likely to
provide food for them.

George Patterson
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[Marc Levenson]

I've had one for about 1.5 months or more now.
http://www.melevsreef.com/pico.html

Marc


Michael Lawford wrote:
> Anypone here keep seahorses or ever tried to keep them?
>
> How are they doing?
>
> ~m
>
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[RicSeyler]

I had some of those zoos (pic file named zoo6.jpg)
Be careful putting them into your main tank, they literally
grow like weeds covering everything, even faster than green stars do.
They are some of the prettiest, but MAN to those things grow.....

Marc Levenson wrote:

> I've had one for about 1.5 months or more now.
> http://www.melevsreef.com/pico.html
>
> Marc
>
>
> Michael Lawford wrote:
>
>> Anypone here keep seahorses or ever tried to keep them?
>>
>> How are they doing?
>>
>> ~m
>>
>

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[Marc Levenson]

I could live with tons of those. There bright green centers are vivid.
The camera doesn't do them justice and I've tried taking that picture
a number of times.

Marc


RicSeyler wrote:
> I had some of those zoos (pic file named zoo6.jpg)
> Be careful putting them into your main tank, they literally
> grow like weeds covering everything, even faster than green stars do.
> They are some of the prettiest, but MAN to those things grow.....
>
> Marc Levenson wrote:
>
>> I've had one for about 1.5 months or more now.
>> http://www.melevsreef.com/pico.html
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>> Michael Lawford wrote:
>>
>>> Anypone here keep seahorses or ever tried to keep them?
>>>
>>> How are they doing?
>>>
>>> ~m
>>>
>>
>

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