Yellow Seahorse - Hippocampus barbouri

[Samw]

Purchased on Feb 1. Now trained to eat frozen mysis shrimp. Currently living in my nanoreef (photographed in my main reef tank).

[Trevor Robertson]

wow great picture! I would love to keep but need 2nd tank and way more knolege before I go to a cool looking fish like that.

Good luck with this one

[AJ_77]

That is pretty neat Sam, you are quite the fearless fishkeeper! Will you be able to have more than one in the nano?

We should put a disclaimer similar to reefburnaby's under your pictures/posts: "I am Sam the Bold, and my tactics are far advanced. Not to be tried by any newbie."

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Samw

Currently living in my nanoreef (photographed in my main reef tank).

How big is your nano? How often per day do you feed mysis?

[Samw]

Beverly, its a 6 gallon Eclipse and the seahorse is fed once a day Monday-Friday. I have a film canister with 2 pinholes with brine shrimp eggs inside floating in the nano on weekends which allows something to eat during weekends also.

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Samw

Beverly, its a 6 gallon Eclipse and the seahorse is fed once a day Monday-Friday. I have a film canister with 2 pinholes with brine shrimp eggs inside floating in the nano on weekends which allows something to eat during weekends also.

Thanks for the reply.

For some reason, I thought seahorses ate 2-4 times a day which is one reason why I never really considered keeping them. Goes to show what I know

[Biotech]

Sam,
Do you mind telling me where you get your seahorse from? I am thinking of converting my 46 gal freshwater tank to a seahorse tank, any suggestion as to how many seahorses I can keep?
Thanks

[Samw]

Originally Posted by Biotech

Sam,
Do you mind telling me where you get your seahorse from? I am thinking of converting my 46 gal freshwater tank to a seahorse tank, any suggestion as to how many seahorses I can keep?
Thanks

I used this website as a guide.

http://www.syngnathid.org/articles/stockingLevels.html

Feeding once or twice a day is fine. They only eat about 3-6 shrimps per day.

http://www.marineecosystems.com/Live...rseBasics.html

[BCOrchidGuy]

Thanks for the links Sam they both have great information.

Thats a great looking yellow, very nice colouring.