Fishmaster13
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I have been considering purchasing a couple of seahorses lately. What I was originally hoping to do is plop them into my 90 gallon reef tank (1 year old). Then I did some research... It doesn't seem like the best idea. It looks like I might just have to get a separate species tank for them, but I'm asking if it would be possible to add them to my reef tank since I already have 3 tanks running and 6 other cages for various animals. In my reef tank I currently have snowflake clownfish, a firefish, a mandarin, and a blue striped pipefish. I had an impulse buy with the pipefish a couple of months ago but it's done great in the tank. I was considering getting a fairy wrasse but I would hold back if I were to add seahorses to the tank to prevent compitition. The clown is a little pesky but I'm not to worried about his competition. Then for the corals. This is the part that concerns me. I have tons of polyps and other nonaggressive to moderately/mostly nonaggressive corals. My concern is that while I don't have any anemones, I do have 2 frogspans and 2 hammer corals, all medium size. I have read mixed reviews, but the general outcome advises against it. If they aren't a huge problem, however, I would try my luck with the seahorses. I can lower the temperature gradually down from 78° to 76° easily and my flow is fine for them already. My CC is just snails and small hermits with a couple shrimp. I was leaning towards H. Reidi but if anyone has suggestions for different species that are possibly less likely to get stung it would be greatly appreciated. Sorry this was so long but I wanted to give the details. If you made it all the way down here congrats. Thanks for any help!
