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over 25,000,000 a year, that's crazy...

http://reeftools.com/news/seahorse-sleuth-kqed-hd/
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almost as disgusting as the cove.

Well depending on who is doing the reporting, that is a low number compared to many estimates of the harvesting.
Thank God for the true captive bred ones coming into the Canadian hobby now from Aquamarines International, Seahorse Sanctuary, and Seahorse Corral.

Uggghh. Don't get me started on traditional chinese medicine. Seahorses, snakes, bear gall bladders. And shark fin soup. Some things about the chinese culture really make me angry. Mind you, we have our own stupid beliefs in western culture too. For Pete's sake people it's the 21st century. Time to move on...

Seeing the term "Shark Fin Soup" just put's me in a bad mood, indiscriminately violently killing animals and leaving them to die slow painful deaths for a tasteless piece of cartilage is repulsive to say the least. Capitalism is a disease on this planet and we all seem to take far to much pleasure in it :neutral:.

Does that mean I'm getting my zoa frags for free?!?! :biggrin:

That is a very sad sight to see so many dead sea horses :sad:

um, I don't think that you will see the number of seahorses harvested for CTM drop based on them being aquacultured for hobbyists...

And capitalism aint so bad.

Its capitalists that kill us.

Seahorses are being aquacultured mostly for the medicine/curio trade where all the money is.
Some get siphoned off for the hobby.
Problem is that these companies don't worry about proper filtration units to treat ocean water before pumping it into the seahorse systems, and so most of these seahorses, normally referred to as tank raised or net pen raised, have all the same pathogens that wild caught have.
A true captive bred, will have been bred for the hobby only, and will be bred and raised in either manufactured salt water like I.O., or ocean water that is properly filtered and treated.
The 3 places I listed in my last post are the only ones that provide true captive bred seahorses to Canada at the moment to the best of my knowledge. All the rest are tank raised, net pen raised, or wild caught.

that video just made me want a seashorse!! are they reefsafe?

They are reef safe.
But reefs generally aren't seahorse safe.