Can I turn my reef tank into a Seahorse tank

[Reefbound1]

Hello everyone, Its been a while since my last post and I have a question. As the title states I want to have a seahorse and pipefish tank. Now I have a reef with acroporas,leathers,digitata's,gsp,and galaxia's and lots of flow coming from two seio 1100's one korilla 4 and the return pump from my sump which is about 800 to 900 gallons an hour. This tank is almost 4 years old and has an enormous pod population as well as other inhaitants such as an Yellow belly hippo,Mandarin (eats ocean nutrition pellets),A flame angel and a Royal gramma.What would have to be done to accomplish this beside the fact that the galaxia would have to go? And, is there just to much flow? Thanks for the replies and if you have any other questions please ask... Thanks.

 

[james3370]

from what i've been told, seahorses don't do well w/ fish cause they are very slow & therfore have no chance at eating compared to the other fish

 

[HappySkittles]

agree with the fish issue
and alot of flow isnt the best for seahorse

 

[pennylynn2]

Hello
It's my opinion that the only way to sucessfully keep horses in a reef is to build the reef around the needs of the horses not the other way around.It can be done if you research seahorse care and choose your reef contents,temp,flow,cuc,tankmates,etc...accordingly.
JMO Becky:rollface:

 

[Paul B]

from what i've been told, seahorses don't do well w/ fish cause they are very slow & therfore have no chance at eating compared to the other fish

Ditto

 

[nanafish]

And definetly NO korallias....

 

[Diveshaman]

It doesn't sound like you would have much luck given your situation. I agree with penny first you must know the seahorse and then build environment around them for best results. I have a dragon pipefish in my reef tank along with a mandarine for over 5 yrs and together they do just great. Given your situation I would look at maybe adding a single pipefish if you are so inclined. JMO