rykna
Active Member
I was re-landscaping my 29 gallon this evening and removed some LS. I removed one inch of LS;leaving the LS 3 inches deep. The two Nassarius snails didn't like my adjustments, however, they did enjoy the mysis buffet that I feed to them, while they were waiting in a small container for me to finish the tank.
During this process, I started thinking about our current health problems. Especially when I found 2 dead Nassarius snails in the LS. My reef sand bed(SB) was 4 inches deep. I have generally kept my seahorse SB at 2 inches. My reef SB was always clean, sparkling, and full of life. My seahorses' SB have not. The pod population is usually eaten to extinction with in the first 2 months. Which brings on another attack of red slime.
My reef tank was over flowing with pods. My blue mandrine goby was so fat, he rarely swam anywhere...and he didn't have to. He basically had room service for meal time, and simply munched on the most choice pods that paraded by his mouth. I also saw some of my pepper mint shrimp loose part of their dinner to an army of pods.
Seahorses live in shallow reef like areas swimming with an abundance of pods. So if my 3 inch deep SB is completely stripped of pods. That's going to make a huge negative impact on my water quality, not to mention the health of my seahorses. I haven't been very impressed with snails or crabs. Most of the time they end up eating each other, hence why I feed my 2 Nassarius snails in a dish.So how deep should a SB be in a seahorse tank, and how does one keep in well groomed without a large population of pods?
During this process, I started thinking about our current health problems. Especially when I found 2 dead Nassarius snails in the LS. My reef sand bed(SB) was 4 inches deep. I have generally kept my seahorse SB at 2 inches. My reef SB was always clean, sparkling, and full of life. My seahorses' SB have not. The pod population is usually eaten to extinction with in the first 2 months. Which brings on another attack of red slime.
My reef tank was over flowing with pods. My blue mandrine goby was so fat, he rarely swam anywhere...and he didn't have to. He basically had room service for meal time, and simply munched on the most choice pods that paraded by his mouth. I also saw some of my pepper mint shrimp loose part of their dinner to an army of pods.
Seahorses live in shallow reef like areas swimming with an abundance of pods. So if my 3 inch deep SB is completely stripped of pods. That's going to make a huge negative impact on my water quality, not to mention the health of my seahorses. I haven't been very impressed with snails or crabs. Most of the time they end up eating each other, hence why I feed my 2 Nassarius snails in a dish.So how deep should a SB be in a seahorse tank, and how does one keep in well groomed without a large population of pods?
