6 gallon eclipse Seahorse tank

[diener311]

I am starting up an extra tank(6 gallon eclipse system)I had sitting around in my basement as a seahorse species tank. I know its small, but I figured it would be easier to feed them. I grow my own live brine shrimp so I think I should be set as far as food. I do have a question regarding possible tankmates. Right now, the only fish in the tank is a mandarinfish. It readily eats any food I put in, pellets, frozen and live brine shrimp. I am interested in long nosed filefish. Would they be compatible? And maybe a spotted boxfish? Any other tankmates besides pipefish? Thanks.

 

[denisec]

I am a newbie and have a 20 gal cycling right now for seahorse. What I keep reading and being told is that they must be alone as they eat so slow that fish would eat all of the food before they did.

 

[corky]

I don't know of any other tank mates other that pipe fish. also a 6 gal. is very small for seahorses(usually minimum is around 20 gal). lastly, seahorses taken from the wild generally do not last long in an aquarium.

 

[chopper320]

I'm assuming that you mean dwarf seahorses? If not, that tank is definetly too small. I think from what I've read that you could do a successful dwarf tank w/ that size. I don't even know if pipefish would be recommended though in that size tank. I think you would be best to keep it dedicated to dwarfs. Please research this quite a bit before you jump into it though b/c I know that seahorses can be tough to keep.

 

[fishgod]

A 6g would hold 2 dwarfs but no more! Pipefish aren't reccomended to be kept with seahorses either because the feed slightly faster and are better swimmers. Also brine shrimp are acceptable as a food source, but not as the sole food source, a better food would be mysis soaked in selcon or zoecon.