Just curious who has a seahorse tank on here. I had one years ago with a male and female, They mated once and had babies. I was able to raise 90% of them to a nice size before I was able to sell and give them away. I know a few people on here have them, but who else has them that never mentions them? Beerfish did you have any luck with yours?
Who has a Seahorse tank????
- Thread starter jaa1456
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- poughquag, ny
i've been keeping them for around 3 year's now, domboski as well he has been at it alot longer then me though
I have one as well
Btw, jaa what kind of fish is that you got in your avatar? I like it a lot
Hey Rick have you ever tried breeding them in the time you had them?
Btw, jaa what kind of fish is that you got in your avatar? I like it a lot
Hey Rick have you ever tried breeding them in the time you had them?
- Location
- long island
I know the member george has had them for about 5 years I think. You can ask him and he has live video of the tank
- Location
- Rockland County NY
I think it's a blue potter's angel.
- Location
- poughquag, ny
reef,my male that passd 6 months ago was regularly dropping babies, i never got them past 2 week but also never really put the effort into trying to raise them, the male's i have now constantly harrass's my female and is trying, after a clutch or 2 from them i might give it a real go at trying to raise some of them.
I seperated them into a 5 gallon tank by themselves to raise them. At the time I was also cultivating a lot of different foods, Which i'm not doing now. What kind of seahorses do you have? I caught my pair in the Raritan Bay. And yes it is a Blue Morph Potters angel.
I have 6 hippocampus erectus seahorses in a 20G tank with a two pieces of LR and a mud bottom. In the tank I also have a lot of gorgonians, a few green rics, a small candy cane, 5 little gobies I caught at orchard beach, some grass shrimp i got at the swap from DOTR, some caulerpa and magroves. They've gotten very used to a frozen mysis diet
60 gal cube.
i have a happy pair, for about a year now. erectus.
have some purple gorgs, want other colors too (pm me guys).
rics, lots of zoas, tiny acan frag, etc. corals. blah blah.
have some gobies, few shrimp, pistol/goby pair, mandarin, bangaii, firefish.
calulerpa and cheato in the sump with tons of pods etc.
They try regularly but had the babies for about a week, no luck with them.
thanx
-Joe
i have a happy pair, for about a year now. erectus.
have some purple gorgs, want other colors too (pm me guys).
rics, lots of zoas, tiny acan frag, etc. corals. blah blah.
have some gobies, few shrimp, pistol/goby pair, mandarin, bangaii, firefish.
calulerpa and cheato in the sump with tons of pods etc.
They try regularly but had the babies for about a week, no luck with them.
thanx
-Joe
- Location
- Long Island
Well, not quite that long... just a little over a year. But it was keeping two seahorses that I caught that got me totally and incurably hooked on saltwater aquaria, to the extent that I have been getting rid of all my freshwater tanks, fish and plants (almost done now!).
My two original local caught H. erectus lasted a year. Then I bought (mail order from Live Aquaria) four H. kelloggi -- they were tiny, but did eat well... they lasted a few months and then all succumbed to a skin disease. My collecting trips this Fall yielded no Seahorses (but plenty of Pipefish, four of who are still doing great). So, next, I bought four H. kuda (or so I was told) from a MR vendor -- these supposed "tank raised" ponies wouldn't touch frozen Mysis -- the only thing they would eat was live adult brine shrimp, but despite my supplying them with plenty, all four of them died within two weeks!
Next I got a pair of ORA bred horses -- LFS said they were H. erectus, but they are definitely not -- Todd Gardner of Atlantis Marine World told me they were either H.reidi, or H. kuda. At any rate they are GREAT! I've had them about two months now and seen them do their mating dance twice. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor equipment to even attempt to save and raise the young, but it's definitely a future project.
As Anthony mentioned, I have a live cam on my tank 24/7. My problem is that these posts here on MR are "Googlable" -- which means once I post the password for my web cam, it won't be long before the whole world has it and can look into my living room!!! So here's the deal... I will allow you guys to look in on my tank for one week, then, sorry, but I'll have to change the password.
http://grippocam.viewnetcam.com:5000/
User name: seahorse
Password: jaasthread
click on "Single" -- Enjoy!
Sorry this was so long! I get carried away when talking ponies! They are magical creatures.
George
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- Location
- Union Square, NY
Asianer raises them as well.
Cool, I'm gonna have to check this out. Didn't know anyone on here had a web cam on their tank. Thanks
Deep Dive Coral
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- Location
- Seaford, Long Island
Tried to log in using my droid. Got in but couldn'tsee the video. Will check it out after work.
- Location
- Long Island
Thanks. "Jungle-y" is what my FW tanks used to look like, so that's where I'm coming from. I like the no-plants reef tank look that everyone does, too, but I think for the horses, vegetation is in order.
My wife and I are off to the LIRA holiday party at AMW, so, talk to you later.
George
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- Location
- Montclair, NJ
I got one like Rick mentioned. Mine is a 150 gallon. I have 6 Northern Erectus, Two Southern Erectus and a few Reidis and two Kelloggi.
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