sea horse tank

[Salty Dog]

Hi people,

well my wife picked up 3 sea horses from the swap and I have them in my frag tank, The lights come on at 9pm so I feed at like 11pm and Im getting tired. I was thinking of setting up a little Nano tank just for the horses, but I really dont know anything about them. Bio cube,nano, and cad light nano. Are they all pretty much the same?

 

[FaviaFreak]

elos

 

[Salty Dog]

dude 2k ?

 

[Killarsox]

34g Solana

 

[jcohen9999]

Hi people,

well my wife picked up 3 sea horses from the swap and I have them in my frag tank, The lights come on at 9pm so I feed at like 11pm and Im getting tired. I was thinking of setting up a little Nano tank just for the horses, but I really dont know anything about them. Bio cube,nano, and cad light nano. Are they all pretty much the same?

LOL. I got two of those also and I have the same problem (I was up at 5 this am siphoning off brine shrimp that just hatched)

I have mine in the frag tank too with a mess of macro and they seem to be doing ok picking at pods all day with me adding brine shrimp every other day. However, like you, I am thinking I need a small tank for them on the same cycle as my DT.

Not sure what that looks like yet.

Jeff

 

[qy7400]

The problem with the all in one cubes or reef tanks is they run hot for sea horses, temps should stay low 70's. I'd say a 35 hex or 30 tall would be a better pick, plenty of macro and sea grass for them to hitch to.

Feeding should be 2 times or more per day and preferably mysis not brine as brine has almost no nutritional value.

 

[prattreef]

Any of the stock nanos will be fine. You don't want intense lighting and you don't want a lot of flow. BTW, any of the Sea Horses that were picked up at the swap from the MR table should already be eating frozen mysis--at least the smaller Hikari type. No need to hatch your own, I'd be shocked if they ate Artemia nauplii at all.

 

[Salty Dog]

yes They eat no problem, just want to get them in there own little house

 

[Imbarrie]

I like the solana with the open top design for cooling and you can light it with an LED.

My experience with the Aquapod AIO is all the heat cant escape through the loud fans. Not sure about the others but seahorses will need a steady low temp.

 

[andylee]

Those are too big to live on brine shrimp alone. Enriched frozen mysis!

 

[FaviaFreak]

I tried Bill but any nano will do

make sure to give them some spots to latch onto

 

[andylee]

How about one of those tall half moons. Relatively affordable, nice look.

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[Salty Dog]

I tried Bill but any nano will do

make sure to give them some spots to latch onto

really nice Kev , just cant do that high cost

 

[jcohen9999]

I believe these are dwarfs, although they may just be young normals, but in either case a 34 may be too big for a while

 

[Salty Dog]

what about this?


http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum...-nanocube-remora-nano-skimmer-light-tree.html

 

[Imbarrie]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1999426

Not to kill the sale but I would not recommend a MH on a seahorse tank.

 

[prattreef]

jcohen--did you get your sea horses from the MR table at the swap? If so, they are not dwarfs. They are Southern erectus ( H. erectus) bred by Todd Gardner at the LI Aquarium and are way past the stage where they should be fed baby brine shrimp.

 

[andylee]

I'm surprised they bother with baby brine. They are the ones that were on the raffle table, right?

 

[Salty Dog]

is there an led I could use that would fit in the hood?

 

[jcohen9999]

Whoa I had no idea. What should I be feeding them? (btw I got the really small ones that were in the tank) I did ask at the table but no one could tell me much about them.

Any advice will be welcome.