Pics of my new tank and horses

[edshern]

First, Let me thank everyone on all the Seahorse Boards. Without you all, I have no doubt I could not and would not have put this tank together. I know I loved looking at everyones pictures, so here are mine. Hope you like them. THANK YOU ALL!
The Tank is a 92 gallon allglass Corner Tank. The tank actually began 5 years ago as a reef tank that I decided (for a number of reasons) to convert to Seahorses.
I decided to take out the sump and use cannister filters instead. That way I could treat the water if necessary.
The next few pictures kinda show the evolution of the tank:

And finally, this is today:

I decided to go with an all female, multi species tank. So I got my first 6 horses one week ago.
I got 2 H. Kuda from DanU at Seahorse Source. (I would like to put a plug in for DanU. He really cares about his animals and didn't mind helping when I had questions. He even called me to make sure the horses arrived safely. Thanks Dan) 2 H. Erectus (with appendages) and 2 H. Reidi, both from Draco.

That's it for now. I hope to get about 6 more horses in a month or two. More pics then.

 

[Fishfreak218]

WOWOWOWO!!! that is one of the best SH tanks i have ever seen.. and those Seahorses have AWESOME coloration!!! So are all those plants fake? (besides the Caulerpa Prolifera and the shaving brush plant??) the tank looks really good

 

[edshern]

Thanks,
Some are real and some fake. I thought if I combined real and fake plants I could get the best of both worlds.

 

[skewch]

Nice tank and horses! I have the same yellow/pink fake coral tree in my horse tank, hubby hates it but my 4 reidi's love it LOL. It has to stay for now until our gorgonian grows taller or we get more. I have halimeda also in my tank.

Have fun with your horses. I love mine, only been here a couple weeks and they're doing great

 

[Wink]

Beautiful! Both the tank and the horses. Congrats!

 

[Swanwillow]

I LOVE the two little yellow ones- which ones ARE they? the erectus?

anyway, I wish my tank looked that nice.

 

[hmott]

nice looking tank, how are you doing for feeding them? We are debating moving to a larger tank or selling off some of our baby reidi. I'd like to keep them all but I'm afraid something larger (54 bow maybe) would be hard to feed them all in, without way overfeeding the tank. Looks like most are reidi, but do I spy one yellow erectus (7th picture bottom seahorse? and 6th in the background)

 

[edshern]

The two smallest horses are Erectus. (you were right about both)
the 2 biggest are the Reidi
and the medium horses are the Kuda
I just started using a home made feeding tray 2 days ago.
Here's a pic of dinner time

 

[hmott]

how long have you had them together? Are they all cb? You know I'm sure all the talk of mixing species, so I'm curious how long you've had this success.

 

[edshern]

Well, you really can't call it a success yet. This tank was only stocked last Friday. Yes, They are all cb from seahorse sourse and draco (via Dr. Mac)

 

[hmott]

ohhhh.. did you risk it with knowledge or did you find out later you may have a problem?

 

[edshern]

I definitely made an informed decision. Had lengthy conversations with almost all the large "legitimate" breeders. Read a ton of posts on all the boards, and am or have taken any reasonable precaution that has been suggested to me. For instance it has been recently suggested that I remove the Tang and lower tank temperature. I am going to do both these things.