AN UPDATE Sept 10 2004 : My seahorses

[EmilyB]

Wild caught seahorses are now under cites.

The last orders were placed a short while back. I got a notice from saltwaterfantasies.com.

Long overdue.

[Delphinus]

I thought they were already? Wow. Or do you mean they've gone Appendix II.

[EmilyB]

Yah, I figured I didn't quite word that correctly. I was looking for the message he sent, but perhaps that is what was meant.

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

From Brazil? I wonder if they could be H. reidi then. Bev, you out there? What does our resident seahorse-whisperer think?

I don't know my SH species very well, but I'm sure they are not all the same species. The black one looks completely different from the others. The ones with all the spots on their faces are probably H. reidi, but I cannot say for certain what the others are. Here's a page for IDing the most commonly kept SHs:

http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/quickid.shtml

[monza]

Very cool how long have you had them? Curious on that because I've heard wild caught can be a real challenge. All the cool ones I see are always wild caught so I have yet to take on the challenge of sea horses.

Dave

[christyf5]

Wow those are some great colors. Love the hitching post

Christy

[Beverly]

Dave,

By far, it is easier to keep captive bred SHs. Wild caught may not catch on to eating anything but live food such as mysids. One of the best ways to train WC to eat frozen foods, PE mysis being the best overall frozen, is to train them to eat from a feeding bowl. Go to my website and click on Seahorses. There will be a feeding station section there. That is not to say that you should go out and buy WC SHs, though. CB are still waaaaaaaay easier to keep, imho.

[ltay]

They have been eating mysis. live and frozen...
It's hard to catch live ones in the overflow tank....
Surprisingly, they love cylopeez. I soaked them over night in Selcon.

Still, I would love to feed more live food. I have trained 3 of them eating frozen ones... but the deep red one is hard to train. I will try harder.

[DOO-E]

Are seahorses really that hard to keep. In the url address you place in a reply there is a sea horse that comes in gogarians so all reefers with one might have a dwarf sea horse in their tank. Unlikly but still there is a chance.

[Beverly]

DOO-E,

Here are some research pages for you to read to help determine how difficult SHs are to care for:

The Library page from http://www.syngnathid.org/ :

http://www.syngnathid.org/ubbthreads/showarticles.php

Information pages from http://www.seahorse.org/index.shtml :

FAQ page:

http://www.seahorse.org/cgi-bin/faq/smartfaq.cgi

Beginner's Guide/Care Sheet:

http://www.seahorse.org/library/arti...sAndInfo.shtml

Advice You Might Be Given By Your LFS About Seahorses:

http://www.seahorse.org/library/arti...FS_guide.shtml