Dawrf Seahorses

[Anemone12]

I fount a website that will sale you a pair of dawrf seahorses and the male is pregnant. Does anybody know anything about them.

 

[rayjay]

Dwarfs actually will do better in herds.
They need live food as in enriched bbs with treats of copepods being nice to add.
I'd recommend at least ten dwarfs in a 5g tank.
What else do you want to know about them?

 

[Anemone12]

Well I know that they eat bbs and that they need low water flow and should be in a tank bye them selves.

 

[rayjay]

A lot of people end up dropping the dwarf hobby because it becomes a big PITA continually hatching and enriching the bbs.
Before the hatching, you need to either sterilize the cysts, or, decap them. This helps to eliminate the scourge of dwarf tanks, hydroids.
After hatching you grow the bbs out for a day until they develop their digestive system and begin to feed, and then enrich them for two 12 hour stages with new water and enrichment for each 12 hour stage.
Because dwarfs don't normally hunt their food down like their larger cousins do, the density of bbs in the tank has to be high so that they can stay hitched and snick the bbs as they pass by.
Leftover bbs have to be removed before the next feeding as they loose their enrichment quickly.
Low water flow isn't a problem as I just use open ended air line tubes in the dwarf tanks.
Some people also like to add mysid shrimp to dwarf tanks for the dwarfs to feed on the mysid nauuplii.

 

[Clownfish558]

Which are the better sea horses

 

[rayjay]

It's not a case of what's the better seahorse, as it is a case of what is available and what do you like the looks of yourself.
I guess I could say, the better seahorses are the ones that are true captive bred in ocean water that has been properly treated and filtered for pathogens, or in water mixed from a commercial salt like Instant Ocean.
Tank raised are not as good and have more problems because they are raised in water NOT properly treated and filtered for pathogens.
Minimum tank size for standard seahorses currently available in North America is 29g for the first pair and 15g extra for each additional pair.
Some of the larger seahorses like ingens, need even larger tanks.