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Old 05-19-2010, 06:47 PM
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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.
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