Everything I keep reading about seahorses doesn't seem to apply.
Ours are in a 20 gallon tank as opposed to something larger that is recommended. We have a small plastic box in the tank because frozen brine shrimp are easier to clean from the box than the gravel. Now the sea horses just hang out in the box.
Seahorses like a salinity of 1.020. Ours are at 1.025 and are happy. Seahorses like cooler water. Ours seem to get grumpy when the water is below 77 degrees.
Avoid stinging corals like hammer corals because they can harm seahorses. We had to put the hammer in the seahorse tank for a couple of days due to an issue with the reef tank. We put up a grate around the coral to protect the seahorses. The seahorses figured out a way to remove the grate and killed the coral by wrapping their tails around the branches and dragging the thing across the gravel.
Avoid putting potentially aggressive fish in a seahorse tank. Our seahorses are starting to bully the dottyback and the royal gramma.
At this point, I could probably put the seahorses in a nano reef tank with torches and a lionfish and be worried about the torches and lionfish... I'm not actually going to do that, but still...
Ours are in a 20 gallon tank as opposed to something larger that is recommended. We have a small plastic box in the tank because frozen brine shrimp are easier to clean from the box than the gravel. Now the sea horses just hang out in the box.
Seahorses like a salinity of 1.020. Ours are at 1.025 and are happy. Seahorses like cooler water. Ours seem to get grumpy when the water is below 77 degrees.
Avoid stinging corals like hammer corals because they can harm seahorses. We had to put the hammer in the seahorse tank for a couple of days due to an issue with the reef tank. We put up a grate around the coral to protect the seahorses. The seahorses figured out a way to remove the grate and killed the coral by wrapping their tails around the branches and dragging the thing across the gravel.
Avoid putting potentially aggressive fish in a seahorse tank. Our seahorses are starting to bully the dottyback and the royal gramma.
At this point, I could probably put the seahorses in a nano reef tank with torches and a lionfish and be worried about the torches and lionfish... I'm not actually going to do that, but still...
