seahorses and mushrooms?
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pledosophy
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Mushrooms are fine but that tank is not going to work for most seahorses. It's to small and without mods those biocubes run to hot.
Sorry.
Sorry.
I have a pair of H Reidi in a 9 gallon, although this tank is 14 inches high.
Don't get me wrong, I perform two water changes each week, a 10% and 50% EVERY WEEK to keep things stable. It also helps to have no substrate.
If their fatness and 100+ babies are any indication of their health, I'd say they are just fine.
Oh, I must not forget about the computer controlled temperature device that activates the chiller to keep the tank 73F. And oops, I scrub the LR, replace the Phosguard 2 times each week, replace the fiber-fill, and enrich the food and... well...
Now that I think about it, all I have from the original nano tank is the glass tank ONLY. Lights, filters, pump, feeder, controller, chiller, fan, are all assembled by me. I think I have 14 plugs for this tank on that one GFCI outlet. I even made my own stand so I can see them when I am sitting on the sofa. I suppose they are the substitute for my TV.
Don't get me wrong, I perform two water changes each week, a 10% and 50% EVERY WEEK to keep things stable. It also helps to have no substrate.
If their fatness and 100+ babies are any indication of their health, I'd say they are just fine.
Oh, I must not forget about the computer controlled temperature device that activates the chiller to keep the tank 73F. And oops, I scrub the LR, replace the Phosguard 2 times each week, replace the fiber-fill, and enrich the food and... well...
Now that I think about it, all I have from the original nano tank is the glass tank ONLY. Lights, filters, pump, feeder, controller, chiller, fan, are all assembled by me. I think I have 14 plugs for this tank on that one GFCI outlet. I even made my own stand so I can see them when I am sitting on the sofa. I suppose they are the substitute for my TV.
ann83
New member
While I don't want to argue your success, I do want to warn new readers of this forum against following your lead. Regardless of the stability of the tank itself, I would not recommend that anyone keep H. reidi in a 9 gallon tank.
H. reidi can reach 8"-9" in length/height, and after a sandbed and the gap at the surface of the water, a 14" tall tank is really only 12", giving the reidi very little vertical swimming room. And I'm guessing that the length and width of the tank are about 12", which gives them next to zero horizontal swimming room.
I doubt that you could even get your seahorses to grow to their full size in a tank that size, and you would likely end up with seahorses with stunted growth; similar to keeping a tang or trigger in a 30 gallon tank.
Also, for any future readers of this thread, breeding is actually not a good indication of seahorse happiness/health. If you have a male and female seahorse, they will do their best to breed, regardless of tank size or environmental factors, most of the time. If they can physically get the eggs into the pouch, you should have fry every two weeks.
My H. reidi would be miserable in a 9 gallon tank; they have always used every inch of of the 37, and are about to get a 65 for a single pair of them. I'm not even sure one would fit in a 9; the 10 gallon QT, even without sand or rock, looks too small.
H. reidi can reach 8"-9" in length/height, and after a sandbed and the gap at the surface of the water, a 14" tall tank is really only 12", giving the reidi very little vertical swimming room. And I'm guessing that the length and width of the tank are about 12", which gives them next to zero horizontal swimming room.
I doubt that you could even get your seahorses to grow to their full size in a tank that size, and you would likely end up with seahorses with stunted growth; similar to keeping a tang or trigger in a 30 gallon tank.
Also, for any future readers of this thread, breeding is actually not a good indication of seahorse happiness/health. If you have a male and female seahorse, they will do their best to breed, regardless of tank size or environmental factors, most of the time. If they can physically get the eggs into the pouch, you should have fry every two weeks.
My H. reidi would be miserable in a 9 gallon tank; they have always used every inch of of the 37, and are about to get a 65 for a single pair of them. I'm not even sure one would fit in a 9; the 10 gallon QT, even without sand or rock, looks too small.
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