Poll Question for Research

[samiamisme]

Hi all. I am curious to know what type of tank set ups do you have for your seahorses? For example, sump, refugium, over the tank filter, undergravel filter, protein skimmer, combination (please specify), etc...

This would be a great help to my research project for my master's program.

I appreciate anyone willing to post or message me this information. I begin the physical project this May so I'm in the gathering intel if you will, until then.

Thanks again!

 

[rayjay]

Well, most of my seahorse tanks are bare bottom with hitches and aeration, overflow to sumps about 1/2 the size of the display tank, and rock in the sumps.
Each tank has a Hagen 802 power head with quick filter attachment that I clean out every other day. The bare bottom tanks have the extra food and detritus siphoned off once a day. The sump pump and power head are shut down for 3/4 hour for feeding and a small mini power head helps to keep a lot of the food in motion until eaten.
The dwarf systems have no sumps, just aeration with a little live rock and hitching. Left over brine shrimp are filtered off each night and new enriched live nauplii added in the morning.

 

[Bluemon]

i have a dwarf, so you might not count me but wtv.

i hate sterile tanks and love the look of a natural tank.

5.5 gallon with 1 inch of really fine sand, dry rocks, corals (they hate the low temp) a hob filter (aquaclear 20), caulerpa and gracilaria

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

I have mine in a 29g biocube but it's a display fuge style. Not sure how you want to categorize that. Hope this helps!

 

[novahobbies]

37 gallon column tank
TOM Aquatics Rapids Pro Filter (Call it a hybridized canister filter) w/ ATO attachment
-2 layers filter floss
-Phosgard
-Purigen
-Chemi-Pure carbon
-Bioballs
-Glass Rings

Tunze Nano skimmer
150W Phoenix 12000K MH
(Old) Ice Probe chiller mounted in an Aquaclear filter with sponge only
(New) 1/13th HP chiller
2 Koralia-1 powerheads

Life: 3 female, one male H. erectus horses.
1 male, 1 female Green Mandarin (frozen-weaned)
Nassarius Snails, Atlantic Grazers, 3 Orange Turbos, multiple hermits
Corals: Acans, zoas, rics, xenia/sinularia, pagoda cup, chalices, photsynthetic and NP gorgonia, GSP

Hope that helps....

 

[novahobbies]

:headwally: Double post!

 

[samiamisme]

Thank you everyone. This helps me a great deal. I appreciate your input.

 

[Molehs]

Missed this before, but my seahorse system is listed in my sig:

 

[pledosophy]

If you are getting a masters for this information I have lost all respect for academia. If you wish to actually contribute to the hobby using seahorses I have several other topics for you to explore that actually mean something.

The 8th grade biology students I work with do more then this. If you are talking masters, you need to put in something that is actually beneficial.