Seahorse Science Fair Questions

[slipknot]

Hi everybody,I have a favor to ask: My 9 year old daughter is putting together a project about her two seahorses for her school's science fair. She would like to ask you all a few questions, then plans to graph the results for her presentation.



1: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?

2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?

3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?

4: What breed of seahorses do you own?

5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?

6: How many seahorses do you have?

7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?

8: How big is your seahorse tank?

Thanks for your help, Bye, Bye!
:bum:

 

[slipknot]

Here's what I have:

1. pep shrimp, snails, hermits,xenia,mushrooms, zoas.
2:Captive Breed
3.Frozen mysis/twice/day
4.H Erectus
5.no
6.2
7.4 and a half months
8. 25 gallon

 

[reverendmaynard]

1) Peppermint Shrimp, Flame Hawkfish, snails, mushrooms, zoas, leathers.
2) Captive Bred
3) Frozen Mysis, twice daily
4) H. Erectus
5) Yes. Arrived pregnant, don't know how many, haven't had any since.
6) 4
7) 5 months
8) 29 gallon

 

[ReefNutPA]

1: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?
Nassarius snails, spaghetti worms. No other fish/swimming tankmates.

2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?
Both - but in different tanks.

3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?
PE mysis and Hikari mysis. Twice daily.

4: What breed of seahorses do you own?
Kuda, Northern Erectus, Southern Erectus, dwarf

5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?
Many times. Kuda and Erectus up to 100 or so at a time. Dwarfs usually 10 to 15 at a time.

6: How many seahorses do you have?
3 Kuda, 7 Northern Erectus, 4 Southern Erectus, 30+ dwarfs

7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?
Since 2001

8: How big is your seahorse tank?
20 gal Kuda, 46 bowfront Northern Erectus, 29 gal Southern Erectus, 10 gal dwarf

 

[ann83]

1: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?
one yellow clown goby, nassarius snails, astrea snails, stomatella snails, microbrittle stars, feather dusters, kenya trees, a variety of small tube worms

2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?
captive bred

3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?
PE Mysis, 2-3 times per day

4: What breed of seahorses do you own?
Reidi

5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?
No

6: How many seahorses do you have?
Two

7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?
Five months

8: How big is your seahorse tank?
37 gallon

depending on how many responses she is looking for, she may also want to post on www.seahorse.org and www.syngnathid.org, and just ask that people only answer on one web site.

 

[Duddly01]

Re: Seahorse Science Fair Questions

1: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?
peppermint shrimp, spotted mandarin, black & white ocellaris clown.

2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?
Captive bred.

3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?
twice a day, pe mysis.

4: What breed of seahorses do you own?
H. Erectus

5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?
No. Though he is trying. Displaying, etc. Will likely be soon.

6: How many seahorses do you have?
two

7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?
2 months.

8: How big is your seahorse tank?
24DX nanocube.

 

[Nano-Nag]

1: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?
Green Mandarin Goby, nassarius snails, 2 scarlet reef hermits.

2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?
Tank raised (for graphing purposes list in wild caught).

3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?
Twice a day, Hikari mysis.

4: What breed of seahorses do you own?
H. Reidi.

5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?
One arrived pregnant, and I did not count the number of babies.

6: How many seahorses do you have?
Two.

7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?
Sixteen months.

8: How big is your seahorse tank?
44 gallons.

Good luck on your school project!

Shay

 

[fishymann]

Peppermint shrimp, nassarius snails, astrea snails, scarlet reef hermit crabs (4), firefish, red scooter blenny

captive breed

Hikari mysis 2 times a day

H. Erectus

no

2

1 month (about)

37 gallons

 

[scapes]

1: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?
red emerald mythrax crab, shrooms, pagoda cup, snails

2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?
cb
3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?
frozen mysis every nite

4: What breed of seahorses do you own?
2 finger size erectus, black

5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?
no, they are same sex, still too young, think they are both males

6: How many seahorses do you have?
2

7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?
april 06

8: How big is your seahorse tank?
35g hex

 

[pledosophy]

1: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?
Fish: twin spot goby, firefish, clown goby, yellow watchman goby, orange diamond spot boby, manderin goby, yasha goby, lawn mower blenny, six line wrasse, yellow tail damsel, blue damsel, and clown fish (nemo)

Inverts, peppermint shrimp several species of snails (stomella, astrea, turbo, cerith, naussarius. ) scarlet reef hermits, sea hare

Corals: several species of leathers, several species of zoanathids, many many mushrooms many colors of them (including ricordia's and yuma's), gorgonia's (yellow, red, blueberry), pulsing xenia's, neospongodes (purple and yellow), candy canes, kenya trees, sponges

Algaes: prolifera, chaetomorpha, green grape caulphera, red grape caulphera, halmedia, mangrooves

I've kept some other stuff that did not work out very well that I left off the list.

2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?

Have kept both

3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?

WC's got fed 8 live fresh water ghost shrimp per horse, once daily
CB's got fed PE mysis twice daily.

4: What breed of seahorses do you own?
Have owned reidi, erectus, and barbouri, have also worked with comes and kuda

5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?
Ya, many many times, Reidi broods were over 500 a pop, many times way more

6: How many seahorses do you have?
Most at a time was 4.

7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?
Since Jan of 01.

8: How big is your seahorse tank?
I have kept 15g, 18g, 25g, 29g, 44g, 65g, and 75g seahorse tanks

HTH

If she has any other questions or needs help let us know, glad to help out a kido looking into seahorses. Did you say she had her own. I had to wait until I moved out geesh. Lucky kid.

 

[r2odie]

: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?
royal gramma, 2 clowns, coral banded shrimp, assort. snails & blue leg crabs
2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?
captive
3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?
frozen mysis, once a day
4: What breed of seahorses do you own?
H. Erectus
5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?
no, all girls
6: How many seahorses do you have?
2
7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?
8 months
8: How big is your seahorse tank?
37 gallons

 

[slipknot]

Last Chance!!!!

The science fair is next week so we will be putting together the data this weekend. Any last entries??????

Thanks again to those who took the time to help....

 

[jaugermeister]

how established should a tank be before you try seahorses?

 

[jaugermeister]

I might want to connect a small tank to my reef system to see if I can keep them alive and well... BTW I have a 15 gallon custom nano, with a 20 gallon sumo with 12X12x12 refuge section, it has been up and running for about 8 months now, great coraline algae growth and all corals growing well. I have a pod population you wouldn't believe cause nothing (I think) eats them.

 

[pledosophy]

jauger, you'll have better luck finding answers if you start your own thread. This one is for something else

To answer, you should let the take at least complete the nitrogen cycle, minimum. IME it is best to let the tank mature for a few months after the nitrogen cycle is completed. I just like to have my tanks extra stable and the pod populations booming.

IMO it is best not to try to keep a seahorse tank attached to a reef tank for several reasons. One seahorses do utilize a lot of room IME. Standard recommendations for minimum tank size is a 29g tall, although IME bigger is better.

Turning your current refugium into a seahorse tank will no longer make your refugium a refugium. They will consume all of your pods in no time, limiting the usefulness of your refugium.

Seahorses are rather dirty animals. They will foul your water quaility of your reef.

Lastly the temperatures most reefs are kept at are not suitable for seahorses IME. Seahorses are often asymptomatic carriers for different bacteria strains, mainly strains of vibrio, and need lower temperatures to keep the bacteria from becoming to virtulent. At higher temperatures the bacteria actually alters it's make up producing different proteins. These abcteria are very aggressive and can often lead to illness especially if there is an intial stressor.

JMO

 

[csellers]

Hope I'm not too late:

1: What other creatures do you keep with your seahorses?
Hermit crabs, assorted snails, 2 blue neon gobies, dusky jawfish

2: Do you keep wild caught or captive breed seahorses?
Captive bred (Orafarm)

3: What do you feed your seahorses/how often?
frozen Mysis shrimp daily, Hikari or PE

4: What breed of seahorses do you own?
H. Reidi

5: Have your seahorses ever had babies/how many?
Once, about 75

6: How many seahorses do you have?
Five

7: How long have you been keeping seahorses?
3 years

8: How big is your seahorse tank?
65 gallon hex