sea horse in reef tank

lomar

lomar

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I got a great deal on a sea horse. I put him in my 75 gallon reef. The most agressive thing is a coral banded shrimp. I wanted opions on it. I know most of the time they are put in species only tanks. I have a peice of drift wood for him to hang on to. Of course he ignores it and hangs onto the rocks and shells. I have no stinging corrals. I have mushrooms polyps zoos and a sun corral. I have a sailfin tang a firefish and a small six line wrass and an engineer goby. Other than the cb shrimp I dont think anything will mess with him. The store said to feed him brine and myos shrimp.
 
zanoshanox

zanoshanox

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He wont last long, and you probably have some fish that will. If I were you I would set up a little 10 gallon hex or something. I have a feeling that CB shrimp will get him eventually..
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dc2mlbsm

dc2mlbsm

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yup what he said i have had a cb shrimp in the past and ill tell you they will get anything that passes in front of them
 
lomar

lomar

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He is the one I was worried about. I was hoping he will make it. I think they gave me the wrong price. He is yellow. H e is very large sea horse for $20. I never saw them so cheap so I thought I would try. The cb is mean thats for sure.
 
lomar

lomar

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Every one I have seen was half his size and cost $80 thats why I got him. He was the largest I have seen at a store and so cheap. I thought I would try.
 
zanoshanox

zanoshanox

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At the pet store I work at we sell the 3" tall black pones for 24 bucks...I'm nto sure what they're called. A steal though if you ask me. i say go out and get him a 10 galon hezagonal tank and throw some sand and some tonga branch in there, and he'll be AY OKAY!
 
maroonytun

maroonytun

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Sweet deal, I have been looking for yellow seahorses and can't find any. If you buy a another tank, a species tank, I strongly suggest using rock, sand and water from your 75 gallon.
 
yupi1982

yupi1982

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the deal with seahorses is that the only eat GHOST SHRIMP and going every single day to the LFS to get GHOST SRIMP is just a pain in the neck.........not worth the hassle IMO
 
poniegirl

poniegirl

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A while back it was not legal to sell wild seahorses. Too bad that changed.
I think wild ones are not so common any more.
I do think a good rule of thumb is to ask to see them eat some mysis, before you buy them.
 
maroonytun

maroonytun

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Actually wild collected seahorses are illegal form what Shedd Aquarium told me.Pipefish are the sameway.I had a chance to buy a banded pipefish from a lfs, asked to see if it was eating, they fed him live brine, he didn't touch it, always ask.
 
alyssia

alyssia

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Originally Posted by yupi1982
the deal with seahorses is that the only eat GHOST SHRIMP and going every single day to the LFS to get GHOST SRIMP is just a pain in the neck.........not worth the hassle IMO


That's not correct. I have captive bred seahorses that came to me eating frozen mysis and have been eating it for the past 7 months.
lomar, I would get that horse out of there ASAP! Not only is that shrimp a threat, but SH's are slow and cannot compete with the fish for food. I would also feed it mysis and not brine, brine has no nutritional value unless you gut load it.
 
lomar

lomar

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What should I feed the brine to gut load them? The seahorse and evewryone else in the tank went spastic over the brine.
 
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