What can a sea-horse room with?

Yea... I just started doing the Sea Horse Research thing and found this out... I wish I could do a SeaHorse tank but but really don't have room for another 30 Gallon or bigger... I guess I'll hold off on doing the Nano for now as that was the only reason I would have done another tank...

Onward I go with the 30 Gallon Mixed Reef...

Thanks guys!!!

Stidd
 
I've been thinking of converting my 58 reef to a s.h. tank... it has plenty of gorgonians, ricordeas and nice branches.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7929072#post7929072 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by zuzecawi
I've been thinking of converting my 58 reef to a s.h. tank... it has plenty of gorgonians, ricordeas and nice branches.

My yellow gorgonian is the favorite hitching post of my SH's.
 
I have 2 seahorses in a 32 with a clown gobie, mandarin fish, leather corals, gorgonians, cleaner and blood red shrimp and a red-headed gobie. There are assorted snails and some small crabs- Very peaceful, everyone eats.... I have a separate 10 gallon refugium that I culture pods in, just some chaeto and 3X a week dosing with DT's Phytoplankton, which I also dose the SH tank.

I tried pipefish unsuccesfully but I think I will add another pair of horsed when the time is right.
 
I just moved and broke down my 80 gallon reef, and put everything into a 135 reef!!, but with the 80 emtpy, I was looking to a possible seahorse tank. How many could I put in there?
 
Well the general rule of thum is one pair for every 10 gallons of water. so that would mean 16 pairs... Obviously you are not going to start out with 16 pairs. I would suggest maybee 4 pairs or 8 seahorses to start with, get used to them maybee even consider setting up a smaller fry tank and try and breed them. Then when you feel youre ready, get some more
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7905465#post7905465 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CeaHorseMaShell
I considered a mandarin once myself. The only problem is that they don't eat frozen food, or at least I've never heard of one that did. I was afraid the seahorses would wipe out the pod population and starve the mandarin. If you decide to try one I would recommend seeding the tank with amhipods about once a month or just whenever you don't see any at night. You can buy them at ocean rider among other places. Good Luck.

As for jawfish, that may be the norm, but mine came out to eat.
My mandarin thinks its a seahorse, swims around with them and jumps in the feeding bowl for some frozen mysis. Didnt take him long to start copying them. But he only started eating the shrimp when I put a feeding bowl in.
 
i recently moved and had a little mishap experiment happen during my sleep one night.
all my fish have very...odd..personalitys.
anyways, during my move, i had to move 1 fishtank at a time (i have 2)
and during this process, my seahorses which were in a seahorse only tank,
had to share a tank with a panther grouper, yellow tang, aust sailfin tang, lionfhish,
chocolate starfish, and heaps of coral, seperated by a glass divider.

well, when i put the divider in, i checked (or so i thought) that it was sealing
the 2 sides of the tank off very well because i didnt want my ponies over
with the other fish...especially the lionfish.

when i awoke the next morning my lil cuties had managed to bypass the
divider and all 4 were on the other side of the tank, hitched to a
green goniopora, and guarded by the lionfish.

it turned out to be a very neat watch. i had a net ready to catch any
fish that came too close to the ponies, but the end result was the
horses playing happily in the coral and the lionfish making sure no other
fish came close to them. (none of the actually tried other than to take a
look at their new mates)

even when one of the horses would swim off from the coral to check out
the rest of it, the lionfish would swim beside or in front of the horse as
kind of a body guard. it was amazing!

yet, they ended up seperated again, but my green goniopora now has a home
in my seahorse only tank :)
 
Yeh, I just have a clear bowl like this:

feedingtime.jpg


I put it near a plant so they can hitch but often they just curl their tails around the lip of the bowl.

Yesterday I fed my seahorses by hand, I do this sometimes because I like the fact theyre not scared of me, and the mandarin came and ate out of my hand too... to the point I had to scare her off so the seahorses could get more... she was hard to scare though she is definitly not shy either which is a good thing I guess.
 
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