seahorses

[Monicagsx]

I have an established 125g reef tank. It is 6 feet long and holds many different types of coral and one small, shy angel. I am looking to introduce seahorses into this tank and I need some advice on where to find the best. Thanks, Monica

[Illuminati]

Check out www.sharkeys.com. They usually have them for sale and they look awesome (I saw them in person last time I was there, they are bigger than you think). I don't see them on their site now but send them an e-mail and ask. They are in Lake Villa.

Another option may be to contact this member "yahutch"

I see her in the Chicago forum and she knows her seahorse stuff. She's in Wonder Lake, IL

I think she has sold seahorses to people before but I'm not sure.

Her Hobby Experience: 5yrs fresh , 3yrs reef
Current Tanks: 135 gal sps/clam tank , 65 gal hex softy/seahorse tank (reidi ) , 75 gal softy/seahorse tank ( erectus ), 35hex seahorse juvie growout, 29g pipefish juvie growout , and sumps ,and refuges , and culture stations , oh my !
Interests: reefkeeping , gardening , and big dogs

[Illuminati]

I was wrong, Sharkeys has them under the inverts section, I was looking under fish. I tossed the idea of a horse tank but I don't think I want that right now.

I'd contact yahutch and pick her brain.

[keeperofthesea]

I followed the link to sharkeys and it was a helicopter store. have a working link?

[Illuminati]

Whoops, it should be www.sharkeysreef.com

Sorry about that.

[jeramiej]

unable to load the Sharkey's Reef catalog.

error of "CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers."

[Monicagsx]

Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction. I did try to open sharkysreef.com but it won't open. And the other link........... too bad I bought my new helicopter last week :)
My quest continues, Monica

[Illuminati]

I was on sharkys website earlier this morning, it must be down right now.

With the new Chopper you can go just about anywhere to pick up your seahorses :)

[Monicagsx]

Nice one!!

[Illuminati]

I knew I wasn't crazy.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=823090&highlight=for+sale

[Monicagsx]

Thanks again

[Fishfirst]

You can find quality tank bred seahorses of many species at www.seahorsesource.com Dan is excellent. I personally would get all sexed seahorses... as chances are, if you don't and you plan on stocking a 125 gallon with them... you are going to get hundreds of babies. Get females, or all males, preferably tropical species like reidi or kuda or erectus because its a reef tank... keep temps under 76 and you should be fine.

[Monicagsx]

Thank you very much