quick questions..

saltyshoe_nano

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well, I am thinking of setting up a seahorse/pipefish tank and was wondering if you can keep the fallowing with them

#1. gorgonians/seafans
#2. featherdusters
#3. ricordias
#4. clove polyps
#5. sponges
#6. nutibranchs
#7. pepermint shrimps
#8. cleaner shrimps
 
The constant hitching of seahorses can bother gorgonia's, but many keep them without major issues.

Cleaner shrimp are not advisable IME as they can stress out the seahorses.

I have not had good luck with nudibranch's for the same reason as most keepers, filter intakes.

The rest our mui bueno.
 
Be careful with the shrimp so that they don't out compete them for food.I had a cleaner shrimp once and it was always cleaning my ponies and they bwere really annoyed. I would skip the cleaner.
 
alright the cleaners off the list....the nutibranches would be the lettuce ones...I love um and have had good luck so far...*knock on wood!!!* they cant hurt the seahorses tho right?
 
I have a mandarin goby, algae blenny, and a scooter blenny in my tank with 2 southern erectus seahorses. I have 3 copepod tanks set up to feed the display tank daily since all these will eat the copepods. I have added 400+ dollars worth of various species of pods and feed the copepod tanks with a variety of foods including algae paste. It's taken me months to get ready for all these cool fish and they are living together quite peacefully so far a long with 2 peppermint shrimp. I have just a little bit of live rock and a lot of live macroalgae. I hardly ever see the shrimps and all the fish hunt copepods all day. I also add baby brine shrimp and of course the horses are on frozen mysis. I've seen the scooter blenny act really interested in the frozen mysis. I think he's going to begin eating that and I've even seen the mandarin follow the mysis and act interested. I think they may learn to eat the frozen from each other. I'll add the frozen cycopleeze from time to time and change my water as often as needed since I'm stocked a little heavy.

Suzi
 
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