Our new SW Tank

Peterpiper · November 5th, 2007

Well the tank is up and running ( at last ). And we have some LR 9KG to start with, Hope I done the link ok

atmmachine816 · November 5th, 2007

Looks good, keep it up

COBettaCouple · November 5th, 2007

love it!

Jacko · November 5th, 2007

Really nice! FOWLR or is it gonna be a reef? What are your stocking plans with it?

Peterpiper · November 5th, 2007

Hi Jacko
still need another 35lb of LR.
This aquarium will be stocked with 8 seahorses, 1 or 2 mandarin goby and some peppermint shrimp.
Tank size 16"x24"x40"

Jacko · November 6th, 2007

Ah, a FOWLR, no corals? Very nice, what type of seahorse? I have only ever seen pygmies around here.

COBettaCouple · November 6th, 2007

sounds great! one day, i'd love to have a seahorse tank, but after i get in some SW experience first. we look forward to seeing yours when you get them.

agsansoo · November 6th, 2007

Very nice ! Looks like your off to a great start.

Peterpiper · November 6th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Jacko

Ah, a FOWLR, no corals? Very nice, what type of seahorse? I have only ever seen pygmies around here.

Will be mixing seahorses from the link

http://www.seahorsesanctuary.com.au/...to%20Album.htm

No wild caught seahorsies for me!!
Will look at some coral, just have to find one thats good for seahorses as thay
rap thier tails around things.. maybe a brain coral .....mmmm now you got me thinking!

Thanks to all for the comments

sgould · November 6th, 2007

Looking good!

Peterpiper · January 20th, 2008

Well at long last we got 2 seahorses H. Reidi

sgould · January 20th, 2008

Wow...very cool. Still planning on all seahorses and gobies?

agsansoo · January 20th, 2008

That's really cool ! I've alway wanted to setup a seahorse tank ! What are you feeding them ?

COBettaCouple · January 20th, 2008

Those are beautiful seahorses!

I would love to have some, but they are just so expensive.

Peterpiper · January 21st, 2008

Hi sgould, got a lawn mower blenny, to keep gobies is ok if you got the supply of live food.

Hi agsansoo, Hikari Mysys shrimp will form most of their diet, with gut loaded brine srimp once a week, they been doing a bit of hunting in the LR too, will be going down the beach and run a net through the weed and see if I can get some live wild food to give them every 2nd week.

Hi COBettaCouple, In Australia we pay between $40 - $60 each for captive breed. you can now get the captive breed seahorses from Australia in the US. Mic from Seahorse Santuary just sent his first shipment over last week.

zpecialt · January 21st, 2008

The tank looks great and your seahorses are beautiful! They're such amazing creatures. You are very lucky to have them.

atmmachine816 · January 21st, 2008

Wow pretty seahorses

COBettaCouple · January 22nd, 2008

Excellent price and I'd definitely want captive bred seahorses when we go SW. I hear they'd moderately difficult to keep - do you find them to be?

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Originally Posted by Peterpiper

Hi COBettaCouple, In Australia we pay between $40 - $60 each for captive breed. you can now get the captive breed seahorses from Australia in the US. Mic from Seahorse Santuary just sent his first shipment over last week.

Peterpiper · January 22nd, 2008

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Originally Posted by COBettaCouple

Excellent price and I'd definitely want captive bred seahorses when we go SW. I hear they'd moderately difficult to keep - do you find them to be?

Keeping members of the Syngnathid family is not the same as a FOWLR, it is hard to keep WC due to the need to train them to eat frozen food, plus the stress of capture etc. With CB being born and raised in a captive environment, they will eat frozen foods. I have been reading and researching seahorses now for 4 months, I wasted the first 2 months. But have found a forum that is dedicated to the Syngnathid family, ie sea dragons, pipe fish and seahorses and this has helped, I have been able to ask about all things in regards to keeping SH, and one of the members is Mic from seahorse sanctuary ( breeder ) and David from saseahorses ( breeder ). Don't get me wrong, I love Fishlore and all the great people and info. I just believe that if you want to keep, say a reef, you need to find and research on reef as much as you can, not to much info here about seahorses hey, guess to answer you, I would say that if you try to keep seahorses, do a lot of research, ask a lot of questions, only get CB, are they hard to keep? no, if you do your research. by research, I spent at least 2hrs every day over the last 2 month.
My male has changed colour from white to dark yellow to light brown all in only 2hrs today... seahorses are AMAZING!

COBettaCouple · January 22nd, 2008

FishLore is IMO the best forum around, but we cover the whole range and there is so much to the world of fish keeping that it would be impossible to cover everything in detail and it's good to have some 'specialized' sites dedicated to just 1 species or family of species.

I'll definitely research for many months before starting a SW tank - whenever that may be. It could be a few years, but I do think about the tank and how I'd like to set it up. I'm encouraged by that information about seahorses and look forward to having them in that future tank.

Peterpiper · February 8th, 2008

Well things are going to plan, received 2 H,Barbouri's about 2 weeks ago and they have settled in nicely so here are some pic's

theyellowdartmti · February 8th, 2008

Wow, really beautiful seahorses. Good luck with them!

sgould · February 8th, 2008

Very cool!

COBettaCouple · February 11th, 2008

Love them! Those are some real beauties! More pics please!

Peterpiper · February 12th, 2008

Have a shot of the 2 together.. look like our male h.reidi may be pregnant, so I will post some photos soon

COBettaCouple · February 12th, 2008

Wow, great luck if the male is already pregnant!

Sabi · February 12th, 2008

Wow, it must be great having seahorses! Although i'll have sw setup in a month or two seahorses aren't on my list! They look lovely!

Allie · February 12th, 2008

I heard they were very hard to keep. Not sure how true it is tho.
So cute!

Richard · February 16th, 2008

That is one good looking tank..great job.

SereneReyn · February 27th, 2008

such strange little creatures... would love to be able to sit and watch them, but i'm not sure i could ever commit to their care. will be checking back for pictures! looks like they're happy!