Do Brazilian Reidi Seahorse change color?

[chrisbenavides]

I was looking at the liveaquaria site: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=286 and noticed that it said that these horses were black, yet I saw them at the DracoMarine site and there they were yellow and orange.

My question is, can the ones at liveaquaria change from black to say yellow or orange, OR is this their fixed color?

THANKS!
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[mano]

Yes, seahorses can change color for many reason... to match their surroundings, for mating and moods, in times of stress, possibly and for some other reasons we probably don't even know about.

 

[Beckmola24]

Everything mano said.... Seahorses control their own pigment, so they do change colors due to the reasons stated.

 

[chrisbenavides]

So to be clear here, do these horses that are being sold at liveaquaria (the Brazilian Reidi) which are sold as black and markets as black on the website - will probably change color???

Also, I am pondering between buying these "black" Reidi from liveaquaria or buying H. Kuda seahorses from seahorsesource.com. Where am I better buying from???

Which seahorses are more beautiful and active and also easier to keep???

 

[RicksReefs]

seahorsesource horses are all captive bred, disease free, and don't have to have live food to survive (SHS actually frowns on using live for their horses). wild brazilians have to be quarantined, treated, and need live food to survive until they can (maybe) be weaned to frozen.

 

[chrisbenavides]

I guess most have said to go with a breeder than a distributor.

Now besides where I can get them, WHICH seahorse is easier (hardier) to keep? Which is more active?

 

[RicksReefs]

well, i can only vouch for seahorsesource. I buy the kuda's and I've never had a problem with them eating or thriving. half the time, the male throws ponies within a week or two of them coming in.

 

[Swanwillow]

I have kuda-and I must say they are whatever color they want... kuda and reidi are very closely related. Mine are usually black, but when they are dancing with eachother, they turn a gold color.

anywhos: any of the normal three: kuda, reidi, or erectus will be easyier to keep, as long as they are captive bred and accepting frozen when ya get them!!!

 

[chrisbenavides]

bump

want more opinions...BUT since everybody here really would go with seahorsesource.com, I am most likely going to do that as well.

Also, what about the Dwarf Seahorses? Can a few be kept with the Kuda pair? Are they easy to keep or harder? Do they feed off of frozen?

 

[Swanwillow]

no-they need tanks without live rock... it has to be literally killed if you use LR... they also need to be kept in smaller tanks, for easier feeding. ie: a ten gallon tank, about 30 horses... or more!!! they must have brine shrimp, and usually do not eat frozen: brine hatched out daily. much harder to keep!!!

dwarf seahorses are more-or-less HARD: every other day water changes, only a sponge or azoo palm filter on the tank, lots and lots of hatching of baby brine shrimp: daily, enough each feeding for each horse. The amount of food must be pretty high, because they sit and wait for thier food to come by, they are ambush predators. the only real way to get rid of excess nutrients is to do water changes, and using macro algae that is hydroid free: hydroids will kill the poor little fellas.

 

[chrisbenavides]

I guess their goes that idea

so what else could I keep with the pair of H. Kudas?

nothing?

I will be keeping some Torch Corals and and maybe Pulsing Xenias, but what other live stock???

 

[Swanwillow]

http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/tankmates.shtml

 

[chrisbenavides]

Well thank God I read that tankmates information, because the coral that I wanted to but most of in the that tank was indeed the Torch Coral, which is on the no-no list.

 

[REEFUR]

good info