Low flow, lots of places for them to hang on with their prehensile tails, no fast eating fish (just fish like Leopard wrasse, jawfish, small gobies, but NOT lawnmower blennies or similar fish), feeding minimum twice a day, preferably more.
If you can train them to eat from a specific feeding station, like an empty clam shell, that would be best.
I keep lots of large nassasarius (sp?) snails in the tank for scavenging, since seahorses are slow eaters & not very thorough.
Try to keep bristleworms out of tank since the uneaten foods will cause a population explosion.
I've kept pairs of cleaner shrimp in their tanks before to provide a feast of live food every few weeks.
Not recommended, but I've kept corals & anemones even in their tanks. My ponies were smart enough to go under the anemones & nudge them up with their heads, always careful to avoid the stinging tentacles. Like I state, NOT recommended.
They don't like strong light needed by many corals. I just use spiral compact fluorescents (Phillips Daylight 6500k).
The only flow in the tank is from the return and that is high up, where the ponies usually don't go.
Good luck.
Anthony
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