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Seahorses
- Thread starter Vikki
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Seahorses are social animals and do best in pairs or groups. 15 gallon is too small, minimum tank size is 29 gallons for 1 pair. You want a moderate flow but not enough to blow them against the glass. What do you consider expensive?
OK, I'll let him get if if you help us find a bugger place to live, how's that, Mike...instigator 
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And by expensive, well, I've only seen them at Absolutely Fish (who I am told are pricey to start with) and they started at like $80. I wouldn't mind paying that much, but their sizes ranged from tiny to huge and I would rather get a medium sized one for that kind of money.
? And by expensive, well, I've only seen them at Absolutely Fish (who I am told are pricey to start with) and they started at like $80. I wouldn't mind paying that much, but their sizes ranged from tiny to huge and I would rather get a medium sized one for that kind of money.
http://seahorse.org/ Try this for info has tons and be very carefull where u buy them never accept wild caught they are tough if not impossible to keep alive.
http://seahorse.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index nice and pricy
GregH
http://seahorse.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index nice and pricy
GregH
For high quality, moderately priced seahorses take a look at www.seahorsesource.com. They are a breeder, not a wholesaler or importer.
Seahorses are cute and all, but there's just so much effort involved with keeping them. They almost have to be kept by themselves, so you need time/room for a separate "seahorse" tank. They frequently won't eat anything but live foods. You either have to farm brine shrimp, or like some of the club members, live close enough to the shore to scavenge small grass shrimps to feed them. Just getting healthy ones to begin with can be a challenge. Their expensive because they frequently don't survive the trip from capture to wholesaler to dealer to you-the unfortunate soul who just shelled out a bunch of money for an animal that seems determined to starve to death in your tank.
chaoscat said:
Sorry to say but some of your info is so far out of date. Yes they need a separate system and have special needs but so do SPS corals.
As for their feeding habits, well with the large influx of captive bred seahorses in the last few years this is not an issue. All the seahorses that are truly captive bred ( I am not talking about those "tank raised" ones you see at the LFS) are trained and raised on frozen foods. Their main diet is frozen mysis shrimp. Brine shrimp should NEVER be used as the main diet for juvenile or adult seahorses.
As for their pricing, actually the ones that are wild collected are the cheapest to purchase and always have been. The reason you pay more for a captive bred seahorse is because of the time and expense of raising them. They guys collecting the seahorses are selling them to the wholesalers for $2-3, the exporters mark them up for the importers, who in turn mark them up for the wholesalers and so forth until it get's to the customer. That is the reason they cost what they do. Buying captive bred you either buy direct from the breeder or the only mark up is breeder to LFS with the occasional wholesaler thrown in the mix.