novahobbies
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Sean, FYI, your sig line is hilarious. ;-)
Seahorse tank plumbed into reef tank?
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xcorallusx
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If you were adding this to the a large system I think it might be beneficial, you could have the chiller hooked up to the seahorse tank and have the seahorse tank feed the display tank very slow and this would provide cooling and food for the sps.
jck16
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Adding a seahorse tank to a large reef tank? Even possible is questionable. Beneficial? Unlikely. A seahorse tank will add heat from the lights so that alone isn't the best idea if you're looking to help cool the main tank. Add food? That's what a refugium is for, but if you add seahorses into your refugium they'll eat all the food. So, what would adding a seahorse tank do? Well, seeing how messily they eat and how often you have to feed them, plumbing your toilet or sink garbage disposal into your system might be just as "beneficial" as plumbing a seahorse tank in.
kevin_austin
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I did this with my first reef tank (around 11 years ago). I had a 40 breeder (reef) and 20 high (?) with seahorses.
Both tanks shared a sump acting as a deep sand bed and refugium. I ran it skimmerless (skimmer just stopped skimming after a while) and def the deep sand bed aggressively (lots of various critters in there).
Perfect water parameters, great coral growth, and seahorses were happy.
My fondest memory of the setup was waking up in the middle of the night one night and noticing the sea horses going *crazy*. It seems that the peppermint shrimp in either the reef or seahorse tank had released there babies. It was an amazing site watching the seahorses go after them in the moonlight that I had set up for the tanks.
Of course, this was Austin, TX and besides AC, the tanks shared a chiller. That system was amazingly stable and low maintenance.
Both tanks shared a sump acting as a deep sand bed and refugium. I ran it skimmerless (skimmer just stopped skimming after a while) and def the deep sand bed aggressively (lots of various critters in there).
Perfect water parameters, great coral growth, and seahorses were happy.
My fondest memory of the setup was waking up in the middle of the night one night and noticing the sea horses going *crazy*. It seems that the peppermint shrimp in either the reef or seahorse tank had released there babies. It was an amazing site watching the seahorses go after them in the moonlight that I had set up for the tanks.
Of course, this was Austin, TX and besides AC, the tanks shared a chiller. That system was amazingly stable and low maintenance.
