Dawn's seahorse garden!

Chasmodes said:
Good luck with the tiny seahorse. Tell her that she must eat her meat, or she can't have any pudding!
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LOL, I will do that but what if she isn't a Pink Floyd fan?
Or worse maybe she is a fan and thinks I am in cahoots with the teachers!
 
Well I returned from visiting kids and grandkids and it was a great weekend. We had so much to do before leaving at 6:30 am Friday that I began to think of all the aquarium issue that I might come home to.

As it turned out everything was pretty good. The blenny tank and the seahorse tank were fine. Delilah was in the 10 gallon as she was not looking good last Wed and Thurs. I was not going ask my sister to treat her so I figured she would either make it or not. She is looking better and also eating better so I guess she decided to make it.

Also the dwarf seahorse was at a neighbors. I sent newly made salt water and enriched bbs to feed. I told her not to worry if it died. Actually the little gal looks fine so she must be eating her meat!

I have the hatcheries set back up and and all the tanks got water changes so now I can rest!
 
Give yourself some credit! You've kept a hitchhiker seahorse alive! Who else could do that?

It's funny, my tank always seems better off, when I come back from a trip.
 
Michael Hoaster said:
Give yourself some credit! You've kept a hitchhiker seahorse alive! Who else could do that?

It's funny, my tank always seems better off, when I come back from a trip.
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Yeah, maybe I am too critical of myself.

I think my 56 gallon will be better if I don't intervene too much. The blessings of a high nutrient tank.
 
These hatcheries were on my kitchen counter but since it appears that Jr is going to be here with us for awhile I needed to come up with a another location. I have them in the cabinet of the seahorse display, ha ha!



2018-11-29_10-15-56 by Dawn Gilson, on Flickr
 
I also made changes to both tanks. It started out as just choosing a more desirable hitching coral for the ponies and ended up in changeing the scape of both tanks. I am not sure how that happens but it does, LOL.
2018-11-29_04-59-13 by Dawn Gilson, on Flickr
 
2018-11-29_04-59-36 by Dawn Gilson, on Flickr
I did not love the changes I made in the pony tank but I did like what I did in the blenny tank. I decided the rock structure in the seahorse tank was collecting too much detritus with the large plate coral skeleton. I like that structure however and detritus is not as much of an issue in the blenny tank since its a high nutrient system. So I moved it there along with some caulerpa too. The blenny tank has more shelter for the fish, is more lush and overall. I like the new look.

2018-11-29_05-00-03 by Dawn Gilson, on Flickr

The seahorse tank looks pretty lack luster but the ponies like it better. Now they have room to flow surf plus they can hitch to their favorite coral, the corky finger.
 
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Michael Hoaster said:
Great pics! And vid! I like what you're doing with the scape too. Nice work, Dawn!
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Thanks Michael. I worried that the large rock structure from the seahorse tank would compete with the 2 level sand bed plateau but it didn't as much as I thought. I still may try to raise the coral rock I have there up higher to make the 2 elements different heights. I do not like the look of 2 mountains in a tank, LOL. Its only slightly better than the massive rock wall!
 
I can only look at something that bugs me about my tanks so long before my hands are inside them doing something about it. I got 2 flat pieces of live rock and put the coral rock structure on top of them, thus making the right side of the tank about 3" taller than the left side. Now I am happy, for now!

2018-12-01_07-30-09 by Dawn Gilson, on Flickr
 
Love it! Cool scape.

I know that feeling, looking in your tank, and knowing what you need to do, to get it just so. That's a big part of the fun of it! Artistic expression.

Good job posting pics!
 
Michael Hoaster said:
Love it! Cool scape.

I know that feeling, looking in your tank, and knowing what you need to do, to get it just so. That's a big part of the fun of it! Artistic expression.

Good job posting pics!
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I like that: "œartistic expression". That is a good thing.
 
Michael Hoaster said:
Love it! Cool scape.

I know that feeling, looking in your tank, and knowing what you need to do, to get it just so. That's a big part of the fun of it! Artistic expression.

Good job posting pics!
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Thanks Michael, and you're absolutely right...that is a big part of the fun of it. I graduated from the Art Institute of Pgh so artistic expression is very important to me. It is probably what drove me to push the boundaries in this tank when the seahorses were in it. I never really wanted 2 tanks but the way I need to keep seahorses healthy just does not satisfy me artistically. So now I am much more fulfilled and actually this 56 gallon blenny tank is pure fun and very little work.
 
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