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jillian ayers

jillian ayers

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I am going to buy a 75 gallon tank from a guy for $75 and this would be hte first time I have ever kept salt-water fish. I plan on using the tank to breed seahorses, since I have bred and sold many fresh-water fish with success throughout the years. I have no idea what I need to put in the tank with the seahorses and don't know what gets along. Please help!
 
jake22

jake22

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I have been keeping sea horses with pretty good succes. A 75 gallon might actually be to big unless you plan on getting lots of sea horses. They will have trouble locating the food and hunting it.
Where would you be buying your sea horses from? If you buy them from oceanrider they will eat frozen mysis so the hunting thing wont be a problem.
I would suggest getting lots of live rock becuase it will provide food for your sea horses and your sea horse babies. In my sea horse tank i have a orange tree sponge that all the horses hitch to at night. I would recomend getting several sponges for your 75 gallon tank since some horses will only eat while there hitched and will actually starve if food does not come near were they are hitched. This almost hapened to me once until i started feeding live ghost shrimp from my hand to the sea horses mouth.
There are certain fish you can get along with your sea horses. I will list some for you.
Watchman gobies. False perc clownfish. Peppermint shrimp and cleaner shrimp. Pistol shrimp. Neon gobies. Any types of dart fish. Scooter bleny. And if you get lots of live rock you can get a mandarin gobie. Since you will be trying to breed your sea horses I would not get anything that can fit a babie seahorse in its mouth.
 
jillian ayers

jillian ayers

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Actually, I have another fish tank that is either 15 or 20 gallons- I'm not sure. WOuld that be better if I only wanted to keep 2 seahorses and breed them?
 
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