This is going to be my diary of "redeeming" myself in the relm of seahorses. I have not exactly been successful...
I have kept seahorses for about a year now, but none have lasted longer than 6 months. All of my seahorses, 7 in total, have been Either Ocean Rider Mustangs or Sunbursts (H. Erectus). I started after converting my 29 gallon reef tank into a seahorse tank. I started with a single pair of Mustangs. They were great for a while. They lived for six months, untill they stopped eating and died. I later found that the cause of their deaths was vibrio. After my male died, being the idiot that I was, I got 2 more horses. The female died shortly after. These other horses lived for another 3 months, then one died. I then had 2 females. At that point, I got a UV sterilzer, and upgraded my skimmer to an aqua C remora. I was having a big hair algea outbrake at the time as well, so I burned my live rock and re cycled it. After this, I reduced feeding myhorses for a week to just one feeding every other day to cut down on my hair algea. As you would guess, one horse died. I then got 2 more! These horses were extreamly healthy and hardy. And were thriving in my tank until recently when I had a power outage for two days when the temperature hit 118 degrees here. All three horses died.
After all this, I am not giving up! Im going to start over and do things right.
Here is my tank after the power outage and a week of neglect while I was on vacation
<img src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i235/imatallboy/before.png" border="0" alt="UCK!!">
I have kept seahorses for about a year now, but none have lasted longer than 6 months. All of my seahorses, 7 in total, have been Either Ocean Rider Mustangs or Sunbursts (H. Erectus). I started after converting my 29 gallon reef tank into a seahorse tank. I started with a single pair of Mustangs. They were great for a while. They lived for six months, untill they stopped eating and died. I later found that the cause of their deaths was vibrio. After my male died, being the idiot that I was, I got 2 more horses. The female died shortly after. These other horses lived for another 3 months, then one died. I then had 2 females. At that point, I got a UV sterilzer, and upgraded my skimmer to an aqua C remora. I was having a big hair algea outbrake at the time as well, so I burned my live rock and re cycled it. After this, I reduced feeding myhorses for a week to just one feeding every other day to cut down on my hair algea. As you would guess, one horse died. I then got 2 more! These horses were extreamly healthy and hardy. And were thriving in my tank until recently when I had a power outage for two days when the temperature hit 118 degrees here. All three horses died.
After all this, I am not giving up! Im going to start over and do things right.
Here is my tank after the power outage and a week of neglect while I was on vacation
<img src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i235/imatallboy/before.png" border="0" alt="UCK!!">
I will do what it takes as long as it dosnt cost a ton because my parents are getting really anoid at how much I have been spending lately XD.
