LF: captive bred seahorses (North Van)

[rayjay]

Unfortunately, most seahorses sold in North America are "tank raised", but often called captive bred.
They are raised in large cement vats with water piped from the ocean, without proper filtering and treatment to take care of pathogens coming with the water.
True captive bred would be those raised using commercial salt water, like another hobbyist would use, or, by ocean water that is properly treated and filtered for pathogens.
Aquamarine International in Sri Lanka is one of the few breeders producing true captive bred, but in the last year or so, their quality and shipping size has deteriorated.
Seahorsecorral.com in Florida ships H. erectus to Canada but at the moment the only store getting them is Sea U Marine, in Markham Ontario near Toronto.
Sea U does ship across Canada.