Seahorse tank

ecreef · 03/03/2006, 12:37 PM

So I think I want to set up a seahorse tank. Can some one poin me to a good link or book to read to learn more about this?

Pescados · 03/03/2006, 12:49 PM

Have fun with that... but they do have a seahorse forum here on Reef Central

ub32965 · 03/03/2006, 12:58 PM

seahorse.org

kpiazzisi · 03/03/2006, 01:43 PM

here is a link for seahorse care in captivity

http://www.seahorse.org/library/arti...ctsAndInfo.pdf

also
Seahorse.org

Hope the links help and good luck. I have heard seahorses are very hard to keep because they need to be fed constantly. I think you need to have quite some time to devote to the tank. I wish you well. Let us know how it works out.

Melissa

roguemonk · 03/03/2006, 01:45 PM

It's ambitious, and I hope to do it myself in a few months. The basics are: they are finicky eaters but if you can get tank raised that have been trained to eat frozen mysis you're going to have better luck. If not, they'll need copious supplies of live amphipods and mysis shrimp or something similar (I'm going to try to culture a population of Grass Shrimp (Palaemonetes vulgaris)). They will not be nourished by brine shrimp unless you fortify them with Selcon or the like. They can't be housed with long lists of competing fish because they are slow and sedate critters and vulnerable to abuse, but seahorse.org has some suggestions on some tank mates you can try.

Don't rely on me since I haven't done any of it yet, but those are a few thoughts I've compiled that might get you off and running. :-)

Brad

hawkfish21 · 03/03/2006, 02:56 PM

I've been keeping seahorses since last December. My male has had babies four times and is ready to give birth again. I am trying to raise them. Figure out which species you want and go from there.

murfman · 03/03/2006, 04:18 PM

I have had my pony tank up and running since last April. I used the seahorse/pipfish forum; http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/fo...?s=&forumid=35

for most of the information i need.

castorpollux · 03/03/2006, 04:22 PM

make sure you buy tank raised. ORA raised or www.seahorse.com in hawaii

or there is a guy in canada who breeds some of the rarer ones (zebra snouts and pot bellys) at www.seanic.ca, potbellys are temperate water and you will need a chiller though

03/03/2006, 12:37 PM	#1
ecreef Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 219	Seahorse tank So I think I want to set up a seahorse tank. Can some one poin me to a good link or book to read to learn more about this?

03/03/2006, 12:58 PM	#3
ub32965 Still Here Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Humboldt County Posts: 298	seahorse.org __________________ Michael The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke

03/03/2006, 01:45 PM	#5
roguemonk Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Longmont, Colorado Posts: 903	It's ambitious, and I hope to do it myself in a few months. The basics are: they are finicky eaters but if you can get tank raised that have been trained to eat frozen mysis you're going to have better luck. If not, they'll need copious supplies of live amphipods and mysis shrimp or something similar (I'm going to try to culture a population of Grass Shrimp (Palaemonetes vulgaris)). They will not be nourished by brine shrimp unless you fortify them with Selcon or the like. They can't be housed with long lists of competing fish because they are slow and sedate critters and vulnerable to abuse, but seahorse.org has some suggestions on some tank mates you can try. Don't rely on me since I haven't done any of it yet, but those are a few thoughts I've compiled that might get you off and running. :-) Brad __________________ "It is hard to save a nation in which a jar of pickles sells for more than an ox." M. Porcius Cato, Rome, 2nd Century BCE Current Tank Info: None

03/03/2006, 04:22 PM	#8
castorpollux Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 683	make sure you buy tank raised. ORA raised or www.seahorse.com in hawaii or there is a guy in canada who breeds some of the rarer ones (zebra snouts and pot bellys) at www.seanic.ca, potbellys are temperate water and you will need a chiller though __________________ One time in bangkok the world was my oyster... :) Current Tank Info: Currently none... but previously a 23g SPS Nano- 400w XM 20k, 2-32 w Sunpaq Dual Actinics, 2 maxijet 1200 (mod'd), magdrive 5 return, cpr backpak skimmer, refugium. 4g office pico 70w 14k hqi

03/03/2006, 12:49 PM	#2
Pescados Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: A town Posts: 485	Have fun with that... but they do have a seahorse forum here on Reef Central

03/03/2006, 01:43 PM	#4
kpiazzisi Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Smokey Hill/E470 Posts: 169	here is a link for seahorse care in captivity http://www.seahorse.org/library/arti...ctsAndInfo.pdf also Seahorse.org Hope the links help and good luck. I have heard seahorses are very hard to keep because they need to be fed constantly. I think you need to have quite some time to devote to the tank. I wish you well. Let us know how it works out. Melissa

03/03/2006, 02:56 PM	#6
hawkfish21 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thornton, Colorado Posts: 1,979	I've been keeping seahorses since last December. My male has had babies four times and is ready to give birth again. I am trying to raise them. Figure out which species you want and go from there.

03/03/2006, 04:18 PM	#7
murfman Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 4,677	I have had my pony tank up and running since last April. I used the seahorse/pipfish forum; http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/fo...?s=&forumid=35 for most of the information i need.