In the planning phases for seahorses.

[racingtiger03]

And I'm a bit confused on the feeding and flow requirements. I am looking at doing a single pair of Reidi in a 29gallon tank. I've seen mixed things on flow from they need strong currents to be able to move around to weak currents so they don't have to fight against them because they are weak swimmers. Also what is the best to feed this particular species?

 

[teresaq]

captive bred horses including reidi need frozen mysis a couple times a day.
as for flow, thats just something you have to play with. They need widely dispersed flow, not a jet stream like some powerhead produce.
Things like spray bars across the back of the tank are good.
What kind of equipment are you planning.
T

 

[racingtiger03]

so far the plans are as follows, mostly transfers from my current 29 gallon so I can upgrade it

. Coralife super skimmer with rio 1100 pump, Glo T5HO single bulb or nova T5HO SLR (4bulb). Haven't decided which lights I want to go with yet, depends on if I buy a new 55 gallon, or a second 29 gallon. For powerheads I was thinking one canister to run a spray bar and carbon, a standard filter w/ media (or would the canister and skimmer be fine?). for powerheads I was thinking either two koralia #1's or two nano's depending on the requirements aimed from the back left corner to the center mid high front for turbulence, without the deflector that gaurds fish from swimming into it, as I doubt a seahorse could swim directly into a powerhead from what I've read, and that would help to disperse flow even more from what I've seen in my current tank.
What do you recommend based on my current plans/ideas? What needs to be changed?
Any specific kind of mysis? I have some of the larger stuff currently that I feed my RBTA. I guess that is where I get lost, I don't understand the differences between different kinds of mysis shrimp.

 

[bender77]

Be careful with the powerheads. Although korilla's are one of the safer ones for the horses they will still try to hitch to them and can get their tail chopped off by the propeller. It would be best to cover them with some type of fine screen or mesh. As the horses get bigger the nano seems a bit too small for the tail to fit IMO, but the 1 isn't. I have 1 of each in my horse tank and currently they are covered by nothing but algae, I may be sorry for this one day, but it's pretty tight. The horses rarely hitch to them and when they do it's too the algae, but if I see them hitching a lot to the korilla one I will unplug it to be safe.
I also have a maxijet 1200 on my chiller and the dr's have nice foam prefilter that fit on it.
I'm by no means a horse expert, I've only had mine for 4 months, but have learned a lot from forums and reading.

 

[teresaq]

for powerheads, I use maxijets with pvc pipe attached as spray bars. They work really well in dispursing the flow. The pipe in the back is attached to a powerhead on one end and my chiller on the other.