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Dwarfs need live brine which is easy
I’d prob do 2 kuda or 2 erectus
I’d prob do 2 kuda or 2 erectus
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Will doWelcome to Reef2Reef!
You should start a Tank Thread so we can keep track of your build and watch it grow and change. You would also get a cool Tank Thread badge under your name!
trying to catch up on how this platform works hehe
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Wow so very helpful thank you for your response!Hi I have kept seahorses for 5+ years! Welcome to forum! I also share the love of seahorses lol.
The way I thought of it before I got seahorses was that there are two general categories of seahorses - dwarf seahorses and normal sized seahorses. Normal sized seahorses including Erectus, Reidi, etc.
Dwarf seahorses are small, breed, easily, and can be kept in a species only nano sized aquarium (like 5 gallons). They have special requirements and need to be fed live freshly hatched brine shrimp everyday (over the course of a day freshly hatched brine shrimp loses its nutritional value as it absorbs the yolk). Personally I really enjoy keeping them and they breed like crazy but the feeding is a lot of work and they’re so small you kind of have to look for them even though I did see mine swim around a lot. I also have to get them a sitter when I leave town and have to direct them on how to hatch brine shrimp and it’s a bit of a pain.
I think a pair of Erectus seahorses are a good option if you want a hardy larger species. The minimum tank size for a pair of larger seahorses is 30 gallons. Larger species can eat frozen shrimp and I’ve noticed they’re pretty active swimming about. They can also handle a little bit of higher flow.
I got all my seahorses from Alyssa’s seahorses. I also got seahorse safe corals and stuff from her website. My newest pair are so healthy, and began eating frozen mysis shrimp the same day I put them in the tank. Not all seahorses will accept frozen food, but hers (except dwarves) do. I really recommend buying from her and one time I asked her a question and she answered the same day.
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I love my seahorses they are so beautiful and fun to watch. Oh also some tips that helped me is:
- covered heater (seahorses do need lower temps though) in case they wrap their tail around it
- I put a piece of boat rope in my tank as a kind of natural lagoon looking hitch instead of the yellow chains people use but a lot of people use those! They also love hitching on macro algaes and the cord to my UV light lol.
- Dwarf seahorses I use a gentle sponge filter. My big seahorses I use a normal filter. I didn’t turn on high flow until after they got acclimated
- some people use a feeding station for the seahorses but I just pour in the shrimp near them and they go after it. For the dwarves I use a turkey bastar.
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