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Old 07-19-2009, 03:46 AM
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Default Seahorses: advice from those who keep them please?

I'm going to be setting up a 72g with the intent of housing a couple seahorses some time down the line. I don't have any personal experience owning ponies. I've read through quite a bit of material as well as browsed sites like seahorse.org, but I was wondering if some of the folks on canreef could pipe up about their own personal experiences and tips about owning seahorses. I'd like to know what you do for husbandry, flow, feeding, breeding, care of ponies and fry and anything else you can think of for tips. Thanks so much!

Plans:
My 72g will be low flow (may end up using only the sump pump or may keep the FX5 on there--which I am using for the seeded sponges at the moment). I plan on screening off any intakes so nobody gets sucked into anything. It has a 33g sump and an ATO.

I will likely use some kind of base rock so I don't have to deal with aptasia/hydroids (thinking combo of eco-rocks and tuffa). Lights are 4 t5s with a parabolic reflector (not horrible, but not awesome either.) I'm unsure if these would be adequate for photosynthetic gorgs, but I might get away with it if I put them near the top. I have a couple other coralife t5s I could throw on there if I fix the ballasts and a x2 48" PC if I have to, but I'd prefer to not add too much in the way of lighting at this point in time. I might also add a couple fake brightly colored gorgs just for something colorful for them to hang on to.

It only has a coralife 65 skimmer on it at present, but I will upgrade that when I can. (Would like to buy a bigger skimmer for the 120g and then will give that tanks skimmer--a Euroreef 135--to this tank so I can feed heavily if necessary.)

I am not super picky about what kind of pony to buy, but I'd like bright colored ones (of the same breed) which are captive bred and eating frozen.
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