Right, but so are a good deal of the fish we keep in reefs.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7561163#post7561163 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by greenighs
Seahorses aren't really reef creatures. They are found more often on the bay side of reefs, in tidal flats, seagrass beds.
I have never seen a staghorn thats remotely close to sharp enough to puncture a seahorse/ Agree with stinging animals though. No bubble corals, frogspawns, etc.They shouldn't be kept with any stinging animals, or anything really pointy (seriously, I know in the wild there are pointy things in the water, but in a tank, between the powerheads and lack of maneurvering room, a couring male could get his pouch ruptured easily on a staghorn).
Soft corals like toadstools and finger leathers, non-stinging gorgonians, that's about as far as I'd go with horses.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7588304#post7588304 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RichConley
Right, but so are a good deal of the fish we keep in reefs. I have never seen a staghorn thats remotely close to sharp enough to puncture a seahorse/
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7588370#post7588370 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FishGrrl
The problem with SPS corals is the environment you need to keep them in is VASTLY different than what you need to keep seahorses. The water movement is way too much for seahorses, as well as the heat requirements.
Not only that, I would be afraid seahorses would irritate an sps to death by constantly hitching on it. ESPECIALLY if they were hitching because they were being blown around.
I too can't imaging an sps damaging a seahorse, they're much too fragile and those that aren't tend to be blunt. But they still shouldn't be kept together, because one or the other's requirements won't be met.