Can you help ID please

[kidzatheart]

I currently have 3 seahorses. One male and 2 females. I have asked for id before and was told they are either redi or kudas. Then I was told to count the lines on the back fin. I find this impossible. I have even tried to take a pic of just that fin so i could blow up the pic to count but the pic always comes out blurry. I am wanting to try and get an id on these just in case they breed so i will know how to care for babies. The 2 females look exactly the same. Here is a pic of the male and female.

Male

Female

 

[MSAreef]

Looks like a Redi to me.

 

[CeaHorseMaShell]

same here

 

[BruceW]

Yes I would say reidi also. H. kuda are very closely related to reidi and although reidi fry tend to be smaller they are both pelagic so raising them would be the pretty similar. You will probably need rots for your reidi fry and then the San Francisco strain of baby brine shrimp.

Bruce

 

[Brock Fluharty]

Yeah, seems to me that kuda have a kind of "star" shaped coronet, while reidi is flatter, like a mohawk or something.

 

[kidzatheart]

Here is a little bit better pic of the female. For some reason the pictures of the seahorses never come out good.