Seahorse care is very tough. I never had luck with them. They need cold water so you need to add chiller + protein skimmer. Also when I bought my first one, my lfs told me that there is no need to feed them. He totally fooled me and after 2 weeks it starved. One thing is that make sure that yours accept frozen food. Ask your seller to feed frozen food in your presence as my sellers always make me fool. Give them plenty of algae and pods to eat. They have a good diet.
Any ideas for a CUC? I was thinking 3 snails and a couple blue legged hermit crabs
Wow! This scene is forcing me to buy a pair!Hi, I’m breeding seahorses and to be honest they are very simple to keep.
The difficult is find an healthy and well trained in eating frozen food .
I get them from tmc in the past few years and they wasn’t any good, I got mine from a different importer and I paid them a lot, but they were very good and after few months I managed to get them breeding.
I would avoid to put live rock, I would prefer using dry rock, (no nasty creatures) then add copepods, anfipod and some phytoplankton and let it run.
the filtration is very important, they need to be feed 3 to 8 times a day, so a good filtration is the best for keeping them healthy.
after the first month you can start add some macro algae for reducing no3 po4 and give them a natural habitat
Corals get very stressed by the horses when they get big .
Water temperature is proportionate to the feeding, higher is the temperature and faster is the metabolism so need more feeding if you keep tropical temperature.
cuc anything from ermit crab, snail ecc I would avoid sea urchin (mespillia) and crabs .
Hi, I’m breeding seahorses and to be honest they are very simple to keep.
The difficult is find an healthy and well trained in eating frozen food .
I get them from tmc in the past few years and they wasn’t any good, I got mine from a different importer and I paid them a lot, but they were very good and after few months I managed to get them breeding.
I would avoid to put live rock, I would prefer using dry rock, (no nasty creatures) then add copepods, anfipod and some phytoplankton and let it run.
the filtration is very important, they need to be feed 3 to 8 times a day, so a good filtration is the best for keeping them healthy.
after the first month you can start add some macro algae for reducing no3 po4 and give them a natural habitat
Corals get very stressed by the horses when they get big .
Water temperature is proportionate to the feeding, higher is the temperature and faster is the metabolism so need more feeding if you keep tropical temperature.
cuc anything from ermit crab, snail ecc I would avoid sea urchin (mespillia) and crabs .
Hello I was going to add about 3-4 hermit crabs. 3 nassarius snails and 2 turbo snails. Then eventually I will add seahorses! Any thoughts on this CUC?
Is that as said or do you mean dwarf seahorse tank. AS dwarf seahorses are harder to keep than the full size ones. Dwarfs need LIVE food.
Peppermint is the best choice.
Would you add a starfish eventually? Any types in preference?
Maybe a sand sifting starfish…
How long would you wait to add seahorses? And how r bristle starfishs viewed as?
