[Roccus]

a lot of good answers here for you... sorry for your loss.. when he was at the LFS.. did you ever observe him eat...a lot of things can be at play here..

Like the others have said flow is miss understood... ..mine love to surf... they go into the return and ride the current from end to end... then go back and do it again over and over.. when when they get tired they hitch onto their favorite gorgonian and take a nap away from the flow... they train quickly too.. as soon as I shut down the pumps they assemble in front of the door waiting for breakfast...lunch ...or dinner. Like the others, I think the fish are a bad idea in the same tank... sea horses are slow deliberate eaters... competing with fish will make their job of getting enough nutrition difficult...