Local Seahorse info

[Johnny Spesis]

Caught a local Seahorse yesterday scalloping. I setup my Aux. tank with cold bay water, 47 degrees, but how to acclimate from 47 to 76 degrees? With all the other stuff I caught, I would like to keep some of these locals. I've had a Long Island Spearing swimming with my damsels since the summer, so I know it can be done. But such a temperature difference, anyone have any experience with this???
I'm using no heat now, and don't want to use a chiller. Everything I added to my main this summer are still swimming, hermits, horseshoe crabs, clams, spearing, but bringing the temperature up so much has me worried. Any Help Here??????

 

[homegrowncichlid]

I've caught sea horses in the fall 60-65F water and they went right into my tank, feeding easily on frozen mysis. Kept them for months before there was pods population bloom, at which point they wouldn't eat anything frozen afterwards. Seeding the pods into that tank was a mistake.

For goldfish, they can acclimate from cold to warm water easily, but they don't do well going from warm to cold. I've read a few articles about how pond fish need a few weeks to go from summer to fall to winter conditions, but I didn't notice anyone talking about problems with going the other way around.

So just to be on the safe side, lets say we bring the water up from 45 to 55, then to 65, which is close enough to the target zone, since we know they can hop from 65 ocean to indoor in a few hours already.

So lets say you take a week max to go up every 10 degrees, you'd need to keep them in your garage or unheated basement for a week before your living room, though if they were goldfish they could do it relatively.

 

[Johnny Spesis]

Thanks

Yes, it's been a week, and I haven't added any heat. Fish room is in cold basement and temp isn't an issue, but now everyone is eating but the sea horse. I can't believe pipefish could eat so much.
Thanks again.

 

[Clown guru]

Would be nice if you provide a few pics..thanks for sharing!