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I've kept and bred seahorses for about 6 years. Although I don't recommend this, I kept a mandarin in a 12 gallon eclipse tank for 4 years. I had three tanks a 55, the 12 and a 40 gal. sump for my seahorse rearing tanks. My intention was to rotate him to each if my copepod, amphipod supply got low. I put him in the 12 gal. with a pair of seahorses. I believe that he learned to eat frozen mysis shrimp from the seahorses. I have trained many seahorses to eat frozen mysis shrimp. Sometimes, I would have some seahorses that were slow to switch from live brine to frozen mysis. I would put a couple of juvenile trained horses with the reluctant eaters and they would start eating the mysis. I also kept a mandarin in a 18 gal. tank with 4 seahorses with the same results. That one I saw eating live brine at the store so, i thought that i could keep it alive with enriched brine until it learned to eat frozen mysis. He lived for more than 3 years in that tank.
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