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I mounted a mussel shell to a mag float, then hang it on the back wall. Keeps the bristle worms out. I thaw the mysis in a cup of tank water and squirt the mysis into the shell. When I go to bed I take the mysis out of the shell and feed the corals I grow in the sump. JME

the hermits grow up, then become a problem IME. HTH

rics and seahorses are fine. Rics are one of the safest corals to mix with seahorses.

Goldenmanx, I would love to hear more about your system and how long it's been running. Your tank is quite beautiful. I would be open to all the information you care to share. Mixing species has been controversial, I'm not here to udge, just to learn.

Glad to see so many people found it helpful. It was written for medium and large seahorses and not intended to be a guide for dwarf seahorses. The list is also not meant to say how the different seahorse compatible fish will do when interacting with each other or corals. IME Paly's are not a...

Care to define "good parameters"? I might have a different idea then you.

yes. The wider the overflow the better IME so they don't go over, extending the teeth in the overflow above the waer line is a good idea with seahorses too, but especially with pipefish.

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Suzy, can you PM me the link on the utah reefs site? I found one article by Todd on the topic but it was 6 years old and much of the info is out of date. Would love to read the new stuff. Todd's a really nice guy, I have always like him. If you don't ahve the article I can always email him, I...

he could pull of dwarf seahorses He could pull off dwarfs. There would be some obstacles to get the feeding density up to par. Some mods to the return pump would need to be made. You could go easy and just trim the impeller with scissors but it will cut the life span of the pump. I ran a MJ1200...

Originally Posted by Suzy Todd Gardner wrote a wonderful paper about seahorse fry nutrition. He stated that fry raised in their newborn stages on copepods and foodstuffs like they receive in the ocean will have stronger immune systems than those raised on artemia. Is it puiblished? I'd love...

Not will grow as in will definetly be larger then any WC you have ever seen, but have the ability to grow to the same size and yes larger then WC's with proper care. I'll elaborate further just for the sake of discussion. When you go into your LFS or order an aquacultured seahorse online from...

Thanks and no worries.

For more info on modding a nano tank for seahorses this is a good thread IMO. http://forum.seahorse.org/index.php?showtopic=34647

Originally Posted by Suzy Scott Michael gave a talk at our local reef club a few months ago. He was talking about nano tanks and said that seahorses were great for them. And now, with only cb seahorses available, I think you could have a pair in a 12 gallon. CB are smaller than their WC...