Pot Bellied Seahorses
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flower
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Originally Posted by Slice http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3466401
Beautiful Macros you have there, Flower.
Thanks, that Golf ecosystems have some nice macros, but everything is seasonal and it's best to grab it up when it's there.. I plan to put these in the Pot belly horses tank when it is finished cycling. For now I think the Kuda horse tank is cold enough to keep them happy.
Originally Posted by Slice http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3466401
Beautiful Macros you have there, Flower.
Thanks, that Golf ecosystems have some nice macros, but everything is seasonal and it's best to grab it up when it's there.. I plan to put these in the Pot belly horses tank when it is finished cycling. For now I think the Kuda horse tank is cold enough to keep them happy.
flower
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A little update:
I have everything soaking in fresh water...I finally removed the water, sand and rock from the refugium.
I plane to clean up the sump section sometime this weekend. I'm so slow, getting the tank just cleaned up and emptied is a chore (I'm so glad the kids were here this week for spring break)...I am not the young woman I once was. I can't believe there was a time I would break down this tank and get it set up again in a single day all by myself.
LOL...I wish I had the money...I would purchase a 110g. It would fit on my stand and give me another 5 inches in height for the horses. Then I remember I can hardly reach the bottom of the 90g and I spent my cash on a chiller.
I also need to consider what I will use as a food station and start looking around for something....Ideas are welcome, I don't want a run of the mill plastic tupperware, I want fancy, practical and large enough for pots.
I have everything soaking in fresh water...I finally removed the water, sand and rock from the refugium.
I plane to clean up the sump section sometime this weekend. I'm so slow, getting the tank just cleaned up and emptied is a chore (I'm so glad the kids were here this week for spring break)...I am not the young woman I once was. I can't believe there was a time I would break down this tank and get it set up again in a single day all by myself.
LOL...I wish I had the money...I would purchase a 110g. It would fit on my stand and give me another 5 inches in height for the horses. Then I remember I can hardly reach the bottom of the 90g and I spent my cash on a chiller.
I also need to consider what I will use as a food station and start looking around for something....Ideas are welcome, I don't want a run of the mill plastic tupperware, I want fancy, practical and large enough for pots.
novahobbies
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How about a clam shell???
flower
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Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3466930
How about a clam shell???
I can't find one big enough...2 inches is all I have seen around. I haven't been to Hobby Lobby to look, sometimes they have stuff like that. I have a glass shell shaped soap dish (never used) but I don't think it's large enough either, the inside area is no larger than the 2" shell.
I have been messing with the skimmer all day. I ordered a replacement pump from the manufacturer...although the pump looks idential this one came with an adaptor so it will fit the inside opening at the bottom of the skimmer cone, and it makes the gizmo fit but it offsets it by a full inch...so the other breather hose thingy section can't portrude out the window made for it so it won't attach right....GGGRRR.....I can put a piece of hose on it which will keep the pump outside of the cone instead of inside...If I just drop it down an inch, it will all go under the cone but the base can't sit flush as it should....I'm sure the modification with the pump outside will work, but I'm annoyed.
Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3466930
How about a clam shell???
I can't find one big enough...2 inches is all I have seen around. I haven't been to Hobby Lobby to look, sometimes they have stuff like that. I have a glass shell shaped soap dish (never used) but I don't think it's large enough either, the inside area is no larger than the 2" shell.
I have been messing with the skimmer all day. I ordered a replacement pump from the manufacturer...although the pump looks idential this one came with an adaptor so it will fit the inside opening at the bottom of the skimmer cone, and it makes the gizmo fit but it offsets it by a full inch...so the other breather hose thingy section can't portrude out the window made for it so it won't attach right....GGGRRR.....I can put a piece of hose on it which will keep the pump outside of the cone instead of inside...If I just drop it down an inch, it will all go under the cone but the base can't sit flush as it should....I'm sure the modification with the pump outside will work, but I'm annoyed.
novahobbies
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OK, if I remember this weekend I'll swing by one of the tourist trap shell places down here and see if I can find anything.
flower
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Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467003
OK, if I remember this weekend I'll swing by one of the tourist trap shell places down here and see if I can find anything.
Yay...try to remember!
Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467003
OK, if I remember this weekend I'll swing by one of the tourist trap shell places down here and see if I can find anything.
Yay...try to remember!
flower
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Update: Picture
....I decided to put my rock and in after I washed, rinsed, dried it, and rinsed it again and had in the tub for a bit to cure but didn't continue. The sand I only rinsed in fresh RO water and put it back into the tank, I figured the dead little bristle worms in it will be fine for getting the cycle started. I went with my old way because I can't cycle the tank without the rock and sand in it, it would be weeks before the rock cured then before I could even set up the tank. I'm not impatient waiting for a cycle but looking at a dirty empty tank in my living room during Passover just isn't going to work.. I haven't hooked up the sump yet and I'm still filling it with water. The tank was very cloudy, but cleared up pretty fast. I added some Biozyme.
LOL...The ammonia test this morning reads 6.0...so there must of been plenty of death in the sand.
As you can see in the picture.... I'm using a HOB filter for now, and there is no background on it yet...I got as much of the coraline from the sides and back that I could with a scraper...that stuff is like concrete. I think it looks pretty good. I will be adding macros to fill it in later and give them more hitches. I also plan to either replace the 2 Koralia PHs or cover them, they look like horses could get their tails caught or injured if they hitched to the front by the propeller. I also used the branched resin decor, and a big fake coral I already had. It gives it some hieght and hitches.
I am going to go with a blue background, folks at Seahorse.org say that the blue surrounding the horses makes them want to change to brighter colors....we shall see. I was thinking about adding a black silhouette of either a sea turtle, mermaid, shark or diver.... or a combo of two, to look like it is way in the background of a blue ocean.
For this effect...I wouldn't have mine so busy, nor so large...just one or maybe two. More of the effect of the two divers in the corner....comments?
....I decided to put my rock and in after I washed, rinsed, dried it, and rinsed it again and had in the tub for a bit to cure but didn't continue. The sand I only rinsed in fresh RO water and put it back into the tank, I figured the dead little bristle worms in it will be fine for getting the cycle started. I went with my old way because I can't cycle the tank without the rock and sand in it, it would be weeks before the rock cured then before I could even set up the tank. I'm not impatient waiting for a cycle but looking at a dirty empty tank in my living room during Passover just isn't going to work.. I haven't hooked up the sump yet and I'm still filling it with water. The tank was very cloudy, but cleared up pretty fast. I added some Biozyme.
LOL...The ammonia test this morning reads 6.0...so there must of been plenty of death in the sand.
As you can see in the picture.... I'm using a HOB filter for now, and there is no background on it yet...I got as much of the coraline from the sides and back that I could with a scraper...that stuff is like concrete. I think it looks pretty good. I will be adding macros to fill it in later and give them more hitches. I also plan to either replace the 2 Koralia PHs or cover them, they look like horses could get their tails caught or injured if they hitched to the front by the propeller. I also used the branched resin decor, and a big fake coral I already had. It gives it some hieght and hitches.
I am going to go with a blue background, folks at Seahorse.org say that the blue surrounding the horses makes them want to change to brighter colors....we shall see. I was thinking about adding a black silhouette of either a sea turtle, mermaid, shark or diver.... or a combo of two, to look like it is way in the background of a blue ocean.
For this effect...I wouldn't have mine so busy, nor so large...just one or maybe two. More of the effect of the two divers in the corner....comments?
mr. limpid
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Turtle's look better and I agree smaller, no on the divers. Mermaids hmmm, will you be the model for the silhouette? Since it is your post we can go there, and wont be hijacking Snake's post.
flower
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Originally Posted by Mr. Limpid http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467055
Turtle's look better and I agree smaller, no on the divers. Mermaids hmmm, will you be the model for the silhouette? Since it is your post we can go there, and wont be hijacking Snake's post.
LOL...poor Snake, I got going and just didn't realize...
Here are the different silhouettes I have. Any of these can be isolated and used, I can make them large or small and flip left to right and upside down....I kind of like the divers or the mermaids...
These
And the mermaids....
Any type of fish???
Sharks
LOL...and some octopus...sting rays, and others
Oh and the turtle
Originally Posted by Mr. Limpid http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467055
Turtle's look better and I agree smaller, no on the divers. Mermaids hmmm, will you be the model for the silhouette? Since it is your post we can go there, and wont be hijacking Snake's post.
LOL...poor Snake, I got going and just didn't realize...
Here are the different silhouettes I have. Any of these can be isolated and used, I can make them large or small and flip left to right and upside down....I kind of like the divers or the mermaids...
These
And the mermaids....
Any type of fish???
Sharks
LOL...and some octopus...sting rays, and others
Oh and the turtle
mr. limpid
Active Member
I would worry about Seth, he can handle it besides he has littler thing to worry about. That what this site is all about communicating and having fun. Any silhouette you pick out will look great, besides its your tank you'll be the one looking at it all the time. So if you like it that what matters. Same thing when people show the aqua scape of there tanks some times I like it and some times I don't. But it's not me who is looking at it all the time, so it doesn't really matter what I think.
flower
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Originally Posted by Mr. Limpid http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467068
I would worry about Seth, he can handle it besides he has littler thing to worry about. That what this site is all about communicating and having fun. Any silhouette you pick out will look great, besides its your tank you'll be the one looking at it all the time. So if you like it that what matters. Same thing when people show the aqua scape of there tanks some times I like it and some times I don't. But it's not me who is looking at it all the time, so it doesn't really matter what I think.
LOL...when someone asks for your opinion it does matter, the person....ME...is not so sure of how it would look so is asking for some input. I would like to get the feel of the deep sea behind the tank. I was even thinking of adding a fish net in front of the back ground to look like the critters in the tank were netted....then have the ocean behind it....LOL..I have plenty of time to putz around and decide while the tank cycles.
Originally Posted by Mr. Limpid http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467068
I would worry about Seth, he can handle it besides he has littler thing to worry about. That what this site is all about communicating and having fun. Any silhouette you pick out will look great, besides its your tank you'll be the one looking at it all the time. So if you like it that what matters. Same thing when people show the aqua scape of there tanks some times I like it and some times I don't. But it's not me who is looking at it all the time, so it doesn't really matter what I think.
LOL...when someone asks for your opinion it does matter, the person....ME...is not so sure of how it would look so is asking for some input. I would like to get the feel of the deep sea behind the tank. I was even thinking of adding a fish net in front of the back ground to look like the critters in the tank were netted....then have the ocean behind it....LOL..I have plenty of time to putz around and decide while the tank cycles.
novahobbies
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I don't know....that second mermaid is definitely "doin' it" for me......um, yeah. 
mr. limpid
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Originally Posted by Flower http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467071
LOL...when someone asks for your opinion it does matter, the person....ME...is not so sure of how it would look so is asking for some input. I would like to get the feel of the deep sea behind the tank. I was even thinking of adding a fish net in front of the back ground to look like the critters in the tank were netted....then have the ocean behind it....LOL..I have plenty of time to putz around and decide while the tank cycles.
Ok, I like the as natural to the look of the real ocean as I could get. So I wouldn't add divers or mermaids, I would add fish that lurk in the surroundings as the Seahorses. Like Pipe fish, ooh a silhouette of a Dragon Seahorse, know that a Seahorse I would like to keep. I was thinking, what eats seahorses, so i googled it. It says, crabs, tuna and penguins. Penguins aren't they in the polar caps and aren't tuna open water fish? That might be stressful for the little guys, I don't think a silhouette of a penguin would look good.
Originally Posted by Flower http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467071
LOL...when someone asks for your opinion it does matter, the person....ME...is not so sure of how it would look so is asking for some input. I would like to get the feel of the deep sea behind the tank. I was even thinking of adding a fish net in front of the back ground to look like the critters in the tank were netted....then have the ocean behind it....LOL..I have plenty of time to putz around and decide while the tank cycles.
Ok, I like the as natural to the look of the real ocean as I could get. So I wouldn't add divers or mermaids, I would add fish that lurk in the surroundings as the Seahorses. Like Pipe fish, ooh a silhouette of a Dragon Seahorse, know that a Seahorse I would like to keep. I was thinking, what eats seahorses, so i googled it. It says, crabs, tuna and penguins. Penguins aren't they in the polar caps and aren't tuna open water fish? That might be stressful for the little guys, I don't think a silhouette of a penguin would look good.
mr. limpid
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Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467075
I don't know....that second mermaid is definitely "doin' it" for me......um, yeah.
Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467075
I don't know....that second mermaid is definitely "doin' it" for me......um, yeah.
mr. limpid
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Flower, I just went to that site I didn't see any Pot Bellied for sale. But I did see Pintos, $950 each OMG, what makes so expensive they look like horses?
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saxman
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Ah...if you ask that particular breeder why the pintos so expensive, they will tell you 'it's because they carry the "pinto" gene'...and guess what? That's what they will say even if the SH you ordered doesn't have pinto markings. i know this for a fact, because I know someone who ordered them, and that's what they were told! IMHO, there are WAY better places to get your SH from...
As for your tank back, Flower, why not just make it black, which will give you a feeling of infinite depth? There's a squeegee-on product called "water colors" that works REALLY well. We've used it on a couple of setups without black backs.
As for your tank back, Flower, why not just make it black, which will give you a feeling of infinite depth? There's a squeegee-on product called "water colors" that works REALLY well. We've used it on a couple of setups without black backs.
flower
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Originally Posted by saxman http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467086
Ah...if you ask that particular breeder why the pintos so expensive, they will tell you 'it's because they carry the "pinto" gene'...and guess what? That's what they will say even if the SH you ordered doesn't have pinto markings. i know this for a fact, because I know someone who ordered them, and that's what they were told! IMHO, there are WAY better places to get your SH from...
As for your tank back, Flower, why not just make it black, which will give you a feeling of infinite depth? There's a squeegee-on product called "water colors" that works REALLY well. We've used it on a couple of setups without black backs.
My Kuda horse tank has a black background. My horses are surrounded with red and stay chocolate color...I love my horses but they sure would be pretty changing to red or orange. Folks on Seahorse.org told me that using a blue background would cause them to feel more like the ocean around them, and change to the colors in the tank for camouflage, which is why they change color in the wild. So I thought I would do that with the new horse tank and try it.
Pots don't have solid color, but their blotches do change.
Originally Posted by saxman http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467086
Ah...if you ask that particular breeder why the pintos so expensive, they will tell you 'it's because they carry the "pinto" gene'...and guess what? That's what they will say even if the SH you ordered doesn't have pinto markings. i know this for a fact, because I know someone who ordered them, and that's what they were told! IMHO, there are WAY better places to get your SH from...
As for your tank back, Flower, why not just make it black, which will give you a feeling of infinite depth? There's a squeegee-on product called "water colors" that works REALLY well. We've used it on a couple of setups without black backs.
My Kuda horse tank has a black background. My horses are surrounded with red and stay chocolate color...I love my horses but they sure would be pretty changing to red or orange. Folks on Seahorse.org told me that using a blue background would cause them to feel more like the ocean around them, and change to the colors in the tank for camouflage, which is why they change color in the wild. So I thought I would do that with the new horse tank and try it.
Pots don't have solid color, but their blotches do change.
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saxman
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You can try a blue background, but to be honest, we've never had any results one way or the other with colored hitches, etc (we experimented several years ago), altho that's not to say some folks haven't had positive results. I've had SH go from yellow to white and back to yellow when I added green macro to the setup. I've also had SH go from yellow to brown, to orange, to pink, and back to yellow with no changes in their tank at all.
Pots are pretty SH in general, regardless of their "lack of color". Their markings are really pretty, IMHO.
IMHO, I think peeps put way too much stock in what color their SH are...if they're healthy and eating well, the rest is gravy.
Pots are pretty SH in general, regardless of their "lack of color". Their markings are really pretty, IMHO.
IMHO, I think peeps put way too much stock in what color their SH are...if they're healthy and eating well, the rest is gravy.
flower
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Originally Posted by saxman http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467265
You can try a blue background, but to be honest, we've never had any results one way or the other with colored hitches, etc (we experimented several years ago), altho that's not to say some folks haven't had positive results. I've had SH go from yellow to white and back to yellow when I added green macro to the setup. I've also had SH go from yellow to brown, to orange, to pink, and back to yellow with no changes in their tank at all.
Pots are pretty SH in general, regardless of their "lack of color". Their markings are really pretty, IMHO.
IMHO, I think peeps put way too much stock in what color their SH are...if they're healthy and eating well, the rest is gravy.
LOL...I couldn't agree more. I love the markings on the Pot Bellies, and everything I have read about them...they are all personality. I put the blue on... so with a background at least I don't have to look at the tubes, hoses and wires. The Coraline on the back glass and sides I can't get off...I used a scraper and got the big crusty stuff, but the blotches are there to stay. Everything is on line and cycling...I will hook up my chiller when the cycle is finished. I found a fellow on Seahorse.org who raises pots and will have some ready in June when I'm ready to buy...so it's all coming together nicely.
I might spend the month of April gathering what I need to make the fry tank.
Originally Posted by saxman http:///t/391007/pot-bellied-seahorses/40#post_3467265
You can try a blue background, but to be honest, we've never had any results one way or the other with colored hitches, etc (we experimented several years ago), altho that's not to say some folks haven't had positive results. I've had SH go from yellow to white and back to yellow when I added green macro to the setup. I've also had SH go from yellow to brown, to orange, to pink, and back to yellow with no changes in their tank at all.
Pots are pretty SH in general, regardless of their "lack of color". Their markings are really pretty, IMHO.
IMHO, I think peeps put way too much stock in what color their SH are...if they're healthy and eating well, the rest is gravy.
LOL...I couldn't agree more. I love the markings on the Pot Bellies, and everything I have read about them...they are all personality. I put the blue on... so with a background at least I don't have to look at the tubes, hoses and wires. The Coraline on the back glass and sides I can't get off...I used a scraper and got the big crusty stuff, but the blotches are there to stay. Everything is on line and cycling...I will hook up my chiller when the cycle is finished. I found a fellow on Seahorse.org who raises pots and will have some ready in June when I'm ready to buy...so it's all coming together nicely.
I might spend the month of April gathering what I need to make the fry tank.