Dwarf seahorses in a biocube

[sipos624]

I live off in the gulf and recently i have been netting and catching some dwarf seahorses. I used to have some in the past and i have been pretty sucessful with them , and i just wanted to get back into them again. My question is i want to get a 8 gallon bio cube and i am thinking the overflow would be to strong for the fry/ and or pods. If any1 ever modified a biocube succesfully to fit the dwarf seahorse needs i would be interested on some input. I am really leaning to closeing of the overflow, putting a sponge filter in and doing water changes every other week or something. Thanks,

-Mike

 

[cuda6872]

I just recently got a biocube14 (moving up from a nano6) for my daughters baby kuda. I think that the nano6 would be better for dwarfs because the bottem intake flow on the biocube is pretty strong. (stronger than the top intake) It would be too easy for a dwarf to get stuck to the intakes. Biggest problem with both tanks in my experience is surface skimming action. the nano6 was easy to fix this problem using the bottem of a "dailys margarita mix" bottle cut in half & trimmed down to cause a true overflow/suction from the surface of the water. (still pondering on how to fix the biocube on this problem) Both tanks are nice for the money spent. The biocube does have a better filter system but if you change a gallon of water a week both work great. Our nano6 has been running for almost 2 years & with pleanty of LR there has been only 1 problem, the pump went south about 18months into it. If you use a nano6 make sure you replace the ceramic media & bioballs with small LR peices. Hope this helps more than adding to the confusion factor. But if need be, I'll help as much as possible.

 

[cuda6872]

Nanocube 6 I forgot the cube. (blonde moment on my part)

 

[sipos624]

I recently just bought the 14 cube. I used all water from my 29g (waterchange), Live sand + half mineral mud ( hope that will help a planted tank), LR. It's clearing up right now. I think I solved the suction problem. I stuck a piece of hard sponge between that carbon thing and the overflow. I'll try to keep you posted on the updates.

 

[ann83]

Careful with the live rock and live sand in a dwarf seahorse tank. Typically people try to keep dwarf seahorse tanks sterile because the high volume of bbs that needs to be fed out encourages the growth of hydroids, which can kill your dwarf seahorses. There are ways to treat the tank to kill hydroids, but it also kills invertibrates, and more importantly it makes the tank, rock, sand and anything else in the tank lethal to invertibrates for several years at least.