NEW dwarf seahorses!!

[monalisa]

Originally Posted by Bronco300
thats a beautiful gorg lisa!!! mine was fine with my tank, but then started going downhill because my lighting wasnt enough--maybe frag it and have two?
You mean two for the sh tank...or one for the sh tank and one for the reef?
What do you mean your's went downhill? Is that because of the lack of flow, light, or otherwise? If I see a problem with it being in my sh tank, I can just keep it where it is...it didn't even display the polyps in the store, from what I was told...took half an hour in my tank and BOOM!! There they were...
Thanks!!
Lisa :happyfish

 

[bronco300]

cool, from the lack of light i think...
for future info: if anyone ever keeps these guys and need to do baby brine shrimp...ALWAYS be careful of your bulbs---i was taking water to the hatchery and took it over the lamp, and there are little holes for the vents and BOOM, light bulb gone...lesson learned

 

[autofreak44]

i was reading on seahorse.org, and it said sh owners should decapsulate their brine. do you do this? if so, how do you do it?
also, do sea horses require any special lighting? :thinking:
thanks

 

[bronco300]

i buy my eggs that are already decapped. much easier...and no seahorses do not require special lighting

 

[autofreak44]

btw im probably gonna play 20 questions with you, hope you dont mind

 

[bronco300]

haha, thats fine

 

[autofreak44]

question #1 lol...
how long do you have to boil rock to make shure its safe for horses?

 

[bronco300]

i did mine 5 to 7 minutes

 

[autofreak44]

for a 5 gallon, what kind of filter would you suggest
???

 

[bronco300]

any small filter will work as long as you make sure you COVER THE INTAKE...i think the azoo palm filters people love...i just used a normal HOB filter, and as you can see i covered it to make sure the babies and adults can not get stuck to the intake...failed a couple times with a smaller one

 

[autofreak44]

i know some critters require a moon lighting cycle to reproduce, do these guys?

 

[bronco300]

not that i am aware of...havent heard that they need it at least

 

[autofreak44]

how much was your batch of horses?

 

[bronco300]

i got a groupd of 12 WILD CAUGHT for 53 or so, i think the group cost is now up to 63...then i spent like 17 or something for overnight shipping

 

[autofreak44]

ive always wondered how you can ship a sea horse, or any fish for that matter, how do they ship them?

 

[bronco300]

they came in two small bags that had probably 3-4 cups of water in each, then 6 seahorses with a little item to hitch onto...then i a box packed tight and heat pack...by the time i got mine home from work i had about 7 extra babies or so

 

[autofreak44]

what do you keep your salinity at in the tank? ***)

 

[bronco300]

i'll have to check again but i believe its around 1.022...trying to remember, its somewhere around there--i'll have to check tomorrow to make sure

 

[autofreak44]

what type of lighting do you have on your tank right now?

 

[bronco300]

right now i have 40w 50/50 bulb...made by corallife i believe it is--yep, here is a pic