increasing biodiversity in DSB

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Glampyre

Beverly, speaking of nano's, I have a 10 I use as a hospital, but not very often, so I'm thinking of doing it up for sea horses. Any suggestions?

Someone else from this board recently PMed me about seahorses.

Basically, I told them that SHs are a PITA to keep. They are not like normal fish who, when seeing you approach the tank, come running for food. Seahorses are very shy feeders, and are prone to health problems that aren't found in regular marine fish.

Before you even consider seahorses as pets, do research upon research upon REASEARH to make sure you're up to the rigors of keeping these lovely but often frustrating animals.

Two places to go are:

http://www.syngnathid.org/

http://www.seahorse.org/

10 gallons isn't going to be big enough to house anything but a pair of small horses, or a whole bunch of dwarf horses. Dwarfs need a constant supply of enriched live food in order to survive. Small SHs, if captive bred, will very likely be trained to eat frozen Zoe-soaked PE mysis.

But they're still a PITA, if you really want to know what I think. I love my horses, but they're worse than having a newborn baby in the house sometimes.

Wish I could send you more positive reviews of SH keeping, but they're very tough to keep, even when captive bred.

HTH.