Sea Horse Questions

[Horsea]

I have done a lot of research about sea horses lately.I set up a 30 gallon biocube. I still have a few questions.The tank has been set up for a week now. I have noticed the water gets to 80 degrees. How can I lower it besides a chiller? Also when should I add the seahorses? Where should I buy them from? Ocean rider or seahorse source? Anyone have any reviews on them? Also should I use vibrance with their food or is there a better supplement? Also I was not looking to breed the ponys. What genders should I go with? Any other thoughts for a first time pony owner would be appreciated!

Thanks a lot! :spin3:

 

[WerezMiePie]

http://www.seahorse-nw.com/Oh Jeez... I'm setting up a 55 gallon also... Uhh All the advice I can give you is a link... Trust me this is the guy I got everything from... He lives near me. He uses some really advanced vocab... So make sure you understand what he is saying... And I've had live rock in my tank for like a month and a half... It takes a huge amount of time for your tank to mature... All I have added so far is a CUC and I am getting gorgonians and macro-algae Tuesday... I hope the link helps Good Luck... (Just from my perspective don't buy them online and if you get them from a LFS ask them to feed it frozen food first to see if they eat it)

 

[Horsea]

My local fish stores will order them from the same people i would order from online. And the articles he has are very helpful thanks!

 

[vlangel]

I have done a lot of research about sea horses lately.I set up a 30 gallon biocube. I still have a few questions.The tank has been set up for a week now. I have noticed the water gets to 80 degrees. How can I lower it besides a chiller? Also when should I add the seahorses? Where should I buy them from? Ocean rider or seahorse source? Anyone have any reviews on them? Also should I use vibrance with their food or is there a better supplement? Also I was not looking to breed the ponys. What genders should I go with? Any other thoughts for a first time pony owner would be appreciated!

Thanks a lot! :spin3:

I set up a 30 gallon seahorse tank in May 2014. I did not add seahorses until Oct 2nd because I was leaving the country for 9 days in September. I seeded the tank with pods while I waited. I ordered my seahorses from Ocean Rider, partly to honor an unspoken agreement for having taken their free online seahorse training course, ( which was excellant). I ordered 2 females so I would not have to deal with fry but I received a male and female. (Females have less health issues than males). They were and are very healthy, so healthy that they mated within 2 weeks of their arrival. Fry arrived 19 days later and I have been diligently raising them ever since and it's a boat load of work! I used Vibrance to enrich the frozen mysis but have since decided that most of it washes off. I now use my remaining Vibrance to enrich adult brine shrimp instead but I also have Dan's Feed to enrich live food. When I ordered it, Dan himself returned my call and when he found out I was new to seahorse keeping, he spent at least 40 minutes giving me advise on my new seahorses even though he knew I did not buy them from Seahorse Source. IMO that is a man who truly cares about seahorses so I will buy any other seahorses from them. A fan blowing across the surface of the tank or across the surface of the sump can lower the temperature a few degrees but I like knowing my chiller will kick on if needed. I hope this info helps.

 

[Horsea]

Thanks so much vlangel! I think I will order from seahorse source. I talked to them a day ago and they seem to be really nice people that want to help. And i will check into a chiller maybe...lol

 

[vlangel]

I already had a chiller but I know they are a big expense. Maybe you can reduce your photo phase to help reduce heat. We are actually getting AC in our house after living here almost 30 years without it, just because of the seahorses. Is that crazy or what? When it comes time to downsize we would have had to think about getting A C anyway, no one in our area would buy a house without it now.

 

[bundybear1981]

I set up a 100mm PC cooling fan on a tank I'm preparing for a seahorse tank. It's had the fan running 3 days blowing on the water and dropped by 6 degree Celsius (from 31 down to 25, here in Australia where its about 31 during the day at the moment)

Only downside is the evaporation is huge now too but will add a basic float type auto-topoff to compensate for this. I'm trying to avoid having to buy and run a 2nd chiller (have one on my reef tank already)

 

[Horsea]

I wonder if i raised the hood somehow if that would drop the temp. The lights are basically right on the water. They should have thought about that when they made it.

 

[vlangel]

I wonder if i raised the hood somehow if that would drop the temp. The lights are basically right on the water. They should have thought about that when they made it.

I think that could definitely help, and a fan blowing over the surface would blow the heat away too. You will get a lot of evaporation that way though.