My new seahorses, can you ID them?

mandymae said:
You can keep them up to 77 degrees however chance of sickness and death will be higher with the higher temps. Many have experienced this so they are passing their knowledge on to you, not trying to come down on you.

Also, there is a "training program" you can take on keeping seahorses, to give you extra knowledge, through OR and they say no higher than 75 degrees.
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Where is this 'training program'? I'm considering buying two seahorses and I'd like to check it out.
 
1 week update- both seahorses are doing very well, eating frozen mysis shrimp and very active. Temp is at 74-75 (still playing with heater thermostat, not very accurate). Currently I have no skimmer on the tank and I am relying on water changes and macro algae for nitrate removal. Is this safe or should I add a skimmer?
 
Also, tank mates are a firefish, clown goby, peppermint shrimp, about 10 blue leg hermits, red macro algae, xenia coral, a single green/red mushroom and some gsp on a live rock.
 
I agree, skimmers are a definite must. Also, as a breeder, I've never kept my seahorses over 72*F, and usually keep them at 68*. I don't even keep heaters in the tank. All the coral and other various CUC members adjust to the lower temperatures with ease, and it greatly reduces the risk of bacteria infections. Well worth it in my opinion.

How big are these horses? Judging from the pictures, if they're in a 20 gallon tank, they can't be more than 2-3"?? That's pretty young for the Asian pen raised horses they're selling in the LFS in the states. Feeding 3 times a day would be helpful, and if you can get live adult brine, try gut loading it with the "Dan's Feed" from www.seahorsesource.com and offering it several times a week. Great stuff.
 
They are about 2 inches when fully stretched out. I am not sure its a 20g, its a hex tank around that size though. I am lowering the temp slowly, about 1 degree a week. I am building a DIY HOB skimmer- I like the idea of the bridal veil, I will build that into the design. I am feeding 2 times a day with frozen hikari mysis, PE Mysis on order. will check dan's food also.
Dan
 
instead of feeding times a day, how about # of mysis a day. Feeding them once for me means putting in about 30-40 mysis, which they consume probably half of over 20-30 minutes. So I would say they each eat about 20 mysis a day. is this enough?
 
Unless you have a lot of pod population that can't be decimated by the seahorses and allow them to graze throughout the day, then multiple feedings are better for the seahorses IMO.
Seahorses don't have a stomach and in the wild feed throughout the day.
Going by numbers of shrimp won't work well IMO because seahorses are quite varied in their food uptake based on their size and their activity levels.
 
here are some update pics of them. they are doing quite well, have grown a bit and occasionally latch onto one another for some acrobatics as you can see!

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temp is @ 74 now, feeding hikari mysis 2-3 times a day.
 
Sorry for the late response, I also recommend the remora HOB filter. I have 8 of them running on tanks right now. I like them because you don't have to adjust them. The first couple of weeks (breakin period) they will put microbubbles in the tanks but after that, they settle down. I also like tehm because their collection cups are easy to empty and you don't have to turn the skimmer off to do it. I use them on all my fry tanks too. They are easy to bleach and clean ....

Your horses really are pretty and they look happy :) feeding 2 to 3 times a day is a good routine to have.
 
Update again. they are now about 2.5 inches, and are becoming more active and aggressive about eating (chase down the frozen shrimp as they swirl around rather than waiting for them to settle). 27 days so far, looking good. other tank inhabitants (in 20g hex) are a clown goby, peppermint shrimp and a firefish, along with mini brittle stars, blue leg hermits and bristleworms.
 
DanEnglish said:
Update again. they are now about 2.5 inches, and are becoming more active and aggressive about eating (chase down the frozen shrimp as they swirl around rather than waiting for them to settle). 27 days so far, looking good. other tank inhabitants (in 20g hex) are a clown goby, peppermint shrimp and a firefish, along with mini brittle stars, blue leg hermits and bristleworms.[/QUOTE]

seriously, no lie, i looked in my tank about an hour ago, was going to feed my two SH"s. i saw one looked weird, kinda like it was in a web trying to escape. anway, i stuck my arm in the tank and a mini brittle star, no joke, a MINI STAR FISH, had caught my SH and the poor thing couldn't get out of it's legs. this star fish's main body is probably the size 3 pencil dots. it was scary to think something that small could catch my SH.

i had a ton of bristleworms in my SH tank as well. didn't think much of them as they ate all the leftover food. i saw a rather fat one sting the hell out of one of my SH's, so i then elected to eradicate all the ones i saw.
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4 month update, the seahorses are about 3 inches now and alive and well. they eat quite a bit of mysis. i did adda skimmer. how big will these guys get?
 
They are great! They are much more active than when I first got them. I think they are both females. I am hesitant to add a male or any other seahorse because of parasites, etc. Although these were not treated for parasites and were fine...
 
Man after reading all of this I am thinking twice about getting Seahores. I wanted to put them in my 42hex tank but with that many feeding times and parasites, bacteria and all that is making me think twice onit..
 
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