Seahorse foods and temperatures.

[mr.r8rfan]

I was wondering if anybody could tell me what temperature seahorses should be kept and what they should be fed. I seen some at my lfs, they were dark in color almost black and aprox 3" or 4" long. I am trying to figure out where I can figure out the species on this site and living conditions.

Thanks,

 

[seas_inside]

Since seahorses are temperate, tropical, etc..., there is no set temperature for all of them. They can usually (depending on the species) be fred frozen mysis, ghost shrimp.... If you could get a picture of it (specifically the head/tail), that would help identify it.

 

[NanoLurker]

seahorse.org has a pretty good gallery you can check there. there's a lot of small "black seahorses" around the LFS here - you can look at their gallery under kuda, erectus, and possibly kellogi and see if they match up to what you've seen. usually the coronet is the key indicator but there seems to be a lot of apparent hybrids coming out lately.

as for temperature, i keep my h. comes and h. erectus around 72. both species are considered tropical but lower temperatures are recommended, i keep mine slightly below even the org's recommended range.

 

[pledosophy]

74F or below for tropicals

65F or below for temperates

Frozen mysis is the best food. Since they are CB and tht size I'm betting there either maricultured tank raised or captive bred aquacultured, either should take to frozen mysis readily.

 

[sloshesv]

I keep my kudas at 72-74 degrees, and they love me for it.

 

[Fredfish]

... but there seems to be a lot of apparent hybrids coming out lately.

While it may be that there are hybrids coming in, it is more likely due to the high level of variability of physical features like corronet, number of body and tail rings, the size of various features of the head...

Somewhere on projectseahorse.org is a chart of the range in size/numbers of various features used in identification.

It is not nearly as easy as one would think to reliably identify seahorses.

Fred