Sorry to go off topic here, but your user name brings me much happiness!

Every time I see your posts I think of this:

http://www.devilducky.com/media/13599/

:lol:

That is all.

:lol: I know I love that clip, have seen it about 100 times!

The only named animal in my tank is a cleaner shrimp one of friends bought for me and named rick james after that clip....

ermm... ok back to the seahorses.... :mrgreen:

http://www.aquariumillusions.com/seahorses.htm

there

check that out k?

and hmm...if there so dam hard to keep then y havnt we gotten any complaints about peoples seahorses dieing?

i thought they were nearly impossible to keep in captivity, but thats been proven wrong, as long as there captive bred.

and the ammonia spikes were when i knew squat all about saltwater conditions and how easy it is to get an ammonia spike..by say..moving rock and disturbing an ammonia bubble in the sand?

thats how 2 of them happened.. the other 2 were from dead sponges. so maybe you knowitalls should shut up before you know the whole facts.

and wut the heck are you talking about my tank duznt look fit for seahorses (Marnie)

i've got there needs in that tank, branching rock and corals for them to hang on to

Nevermind :(

Pics of my H. whitei tank when it was set up two years ago. I no longer keep SHs because of the time and dedication involved....

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/hh-bw-28gal-tank-9.jpg

Close up of a hitching post I made out of drinking straws. They loved that hitching post and often slept hitched to it overnight :smile: ...

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/hh-bw-28gal-tank-7.jpg

Seahorses will hitch to rock in a pinch, but in their natural habitat, they would rather hitch to aquatic plants and macroalgae. We did not keep any corals in with our seahorses. Live corals sting them, as they have no scales like other fish to protect their skin.

I hope my post is taken as an educational tool rather than a personal knock on the way your SH tank is set up.

You are right that captive bred/tank raised SHs do far better in captivity than do wild caught.

Cheers :smile:

OMG!!! FINALLY A REASON TO USE THIS PIC!!!

http://members.shaw.ca/harvwong/smartchart.jpg

Maybe you should take your own advice, after all you are the one who KNOWS everything about seahorses and disagreed with EVERYONE on this board that they are SOOO easy to keep and BULLETPROOF.:twised:

To have that opinion you obviously don't know all the facts. And the link you posted, that's great, but if I believed everything I read on the internet I would be a fool. So find a creditable link that says they are easy to keep and I will take it all back.

That's it I'm done arguing. I imagine this will be your last post as you obviously don't have any BB etiquette.

It's about the same attitude you get in the store.

P.S. learn your snails.

Mike

Beverly.....beautiful tank. Thats EXACTLY what I am striving for.

Did you crazy glue the straws to the feeding station??
Did you run a skimmer on this tank??

Thanks for sharing.

Bev - awesome set-up. That's the sort of home all seahorses should have in captivity, with lots of hitching posts & dedicated just to them.

Fetus - Abort, abort.