Sea horse feeding

[Protoavis]

Australia is the seahorse breeding capital of the world so I would guess they are CB. They also have more species of syngnathids of any place as well.

Australia only has one seas horse farm these days and they don't breed subelongatus. There may be a few hobbiests who breed them but even then you will pretty much only ever see WC subelongatus in Australia and CB Kuda and Abdominalis (and even then that's only if you go through the farm, stores generally won't stuck them due to being cold water)

 

[BlueCat1949]

Australia only has one seas horse farm these days and they don't breed subelongatus. There may be a few hobbiests who breed them but even then you will pretty much only ever see WC subelongatus in Australia and CB Kuda and Abdominalis (and even then that's only if you go through the farm, stores generally won't stuck them due to being cold water)

Seahorse World in Tas has H.abdominalis, H.reidi, H. whitei, H. barbouri and H. kuda for sale. Is this the only seahorse farm left? I know SASeahorse is gone but there used to be a farm near Perth and several others.

Seahorses are not the hot item that they used to be a decade ago but I would think there would still be demand for them in both Australia and the US.

 

[rayjay]

To the best of my knowledge, Seahorse World is a part of parent company Seahorse Australia.
If you buy seahorses, you buy from Seahorse Australia.
If you want to go SEE seahorses and other sea life you go to Seahorse World.
Just trying to avoid any confusion if some are not aware of this.

 

[Protoavis]

To the best of my knowledge, Seahorse World is a part of parent company Seahorse Australia.
If you buy seahorses, you buy from Seahorse Australia.
If you want to go SEE seahorses and other sea life you go to Seahorse World.
Just trying to avoid any confusion if some are not aware of this.

So you're saying wc caught subelongatus that come from Perth and seem to be as common (if not more so) as cb kuda in lfs around Aus are comming from Tas? Seahorses world have other species but seeing anything other than wc subelongatus and cb kuda is something that has yet to happen for me in the last few years....the landscape of what is being sold has changed.

 

[rayjay]

Sorry, I didn't explain that well I guess.
I just meant that I believe that if you buy seahorses FROM the Seahorse Australia company, they will come from Seahorse Australia and not Seahorse World which the earlier post by BC mentioned.
I had NO intention of claiming ALL seahorses sold in Australia come from Seahorse Australia.

 

[Protoavis]

Ahhh, I may have written then when half asleep....I've worked 143hours in the last two weeks, I'm "spaced out" most of the day until work slows down :/

And yes. Seahorse Australia is the breeding/selling, Seahorse World is more onsite tour/education.

 

[mwilliams62]

Sea horse feeding

I know, I was shocked when I went to the store and saw the pair were looking at me. I even was in time for feeding.

I am pretty sure it is already mentioned somewhere in the thread but can you tell me what breed/species they are in the picture? Are there more pictures for these guys. I have been looking for pictures of seahorses so I can get a tattoo done. I have found many pictures but these guys are awesome looking.

 

[extendedmango]

I am pretty sure it is already mentioned somewhere in the thread but can you tell me what breed/species they are in the picture? Are there more pictures for these guys. I have been looking for pictures of seahorses so I can get a tattoo done. I have found many pictures but these guys are awesome looking.

Hippocampus Subelongtus I think