possoble 20 gallon seahorse tank

[kingsord0]

What seahorses or pipfish would be good for this tank. i am a beginer so if they are easy to moderit to take care of that would be great. if you guys could give me some sugetitons that would be great.

 

[Brock Fluharty]

On www.seahorseorg, use the search feature, an it should tell you several species of horses that can be kept in a 20. A 20 high is a good size for a few good species to begin with.

 

[JennyL]

Charlie,
You don't list anything in your profile. Do you have any salt water experience? If this is your first tank you will need to do quite a lot of research and get familiar with the basics.

 

[kingsord0]

I have a 29 gallon fowlr tank with as sf eel a blue damsle and a falcos hawkfish. and i will check seahorse.com thanks

 

[pledosophy]

Brock suggested seahorse.org, another forum specifically for seahorses. Seahorse.com is a vendor of seahorse. YOu can check them out to. Also look at seahorsesource.com and dracomarine.com

Is the 20g standard or is it a tall tank?

 

[JennyL]

Another excellant source for information and help is www.syngnathid.org

 

[pledosophy]

I think this site has a pretty descent seahorse forum too

 

[kingsord0]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8231599#post8231599 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pledosophy Is the 20g standard or is it a tall tank?

It's a standerd. thanks for all of the links.

 

[Brock Fluharty]

A 20 gallon standard, IMO, will not be enough to suffice a seahorse for courtship, and just room. Minimum for really any species (except dwarfs), IMO, is 30, but that's just me.

 

[kingsord0]

Would dwarfs be a good choice? if so could you guys give me some info on them? Thanks

 

[Fredfish]

Dwarf horses require live food and because of this are harder to keep long term.

A 20g would be too big for dwarves.

Fred

 

[kingsord0]

I have hatched live brine shrimp before so i could handle the feading. Would that tank size be ok if i had a lot of rock so it would make it so there is less water.

 

[Brock Fluharty]

No, Live rock will contain things that will kill your dwarfs, and a 20 gallon would need over 500 dwarfs to keep food concentrations right, and not have bbs fouling the water.

 

[pledosophy]

Com'on now Brock, your not being very creative. You could divide the 20g into a 10g display 10g gravity refugium, alter flow. Let the fuge produce snacks and keep up with the daily feedings. Fuge area could also stabalize water paraemeters.

Might be advanced but possible.

 

[kingsord0]

So do you guys think if i divide the tank into two parts it would be ok.

 

[Fredfish]

Yup. Its basically like setting up a small tank and a refugium except its all in one tank.

If you do this, you want to pump water from the refugium area into the seahorse area and let it passively flow back to the refugium. Use a fine mesh screen in the 150 -200 micron size to cover the area where the water flows back to the refugium so you keep your food in with the seahorses.

If you check around your local area you may be able to find someone who has free swimming copepods in their system that you can use to seed yours. Your refugium will then produce some supplemental food for your horses.

I think it would make a cool setup. Let us know if you decide to go this route.

Fred