Acquired a seahorse

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fscmocsaj

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I just acquired a dwarf seahorse from an associate and I was wondering if It would be okay in an Aqueon 8G tank.
I was also wondering if it would eat the copepods and amphipods that live in that tank.
Would it be able to live by itself? or would I have to get another one?
It is about 1" I will post a pic of it when I get home.

Thanks
 
I don't have dwarf seahorses, but I would think that an 8 gallon would be quite big. For a while, the LFS was selling dwarf seahorse tanks that they made out of those small aqueon evolve tanks - 2 gallon-ish. They would remove the overflow partition (those little guys will certainly get sucked into the overflow), and use a sponge filter. The pumps on the evolve tanks are way overpowered for seahorses, even for betta fish for that matter.
I would think your little guy may get lonely. If you are interested in getting a few buddies for him, I recommend Seahorsesource.com. Abbie and Dan are great.
 
Its actually more like 6 gallons. The rest is taken up by the back compartment with the pump and filtration.
 
The dwarf seahorse is doing great he is eating lots of enriched brine shrimp and he loves the nano whip I have in there. I will post a pic when I get home. I think I'm going to get 1 more so he isn't by himself. I mean he does have 4 snail buddies.
 
You could have far more than one more buddy in there for him - even a dozen or so. In the wild they hitch on macroalgae, you might want to put some seagrasses, or other non-caulerpa species in there with them.
 
Really? I can have that many? what about a fish?

I have a 4" shaving brush in there as well that he hitch's on
 
caulerpa can go 'sexual' on you, it's a bit of a disaster if it happens.
but lucky you, you're in florida and you have 2 great companies that sell/ship macro, if not more. I had ~50+ H. zosterae in a 10g at one point, and they did great. If you have to hatch brine anyway, you might as well get a ton of them.
If yours is captive bred, I'd get more of them. If it's not, I'd get wild ones. PM me if you'd like a few sources for them. Great tank mates for them are pearly jawfish, or any small gobies. For cuc, stick with snails and perhaps a porcelain crab, or any of the local periclimenes species (tails spot and pederson) or sexy shrimp- anything else with claws that are big enough can be a bazard. though I had some very small cleaner shrimp in with mine, that would breed all the time, adding a great live additional food source. I'd also get a couple of photosynthetic gorgonians... lucky you, they're very affordable in Florida.
you can also add ricordia, but don't make the mistake I did of adding caribbean zoos - they need way more flow.
You really need to make sure the seahorse(s) will be protected from the intake to the powerhead/hob filter.
 
teemee, what companies are you referring to? I assume one is Gulf Coast Ecosystems, what's the other?
 
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