Seahorse buddies

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Other seahorse "buddies" can include:

Cardinals (slow moving & not too aggressive)
Royal Gramma or Blackcap Basslet
Yellow or Blue Assessors
Shrimp gobies (had a Yellow watchman in mine)
Twin spot gobies (sand-sifters don't normally bother seahorses)
Most blennies & gobies tend to be ok, but I think the fewer fish in a seahorse tank, the better they like it. Less competition & seahorse tanks are high bioload already.


Not safe:

Lawnmower blenny (will suck on the seahorses - they hate that)


Incomplete list but just keep out anything that might possibly outcompete or are too fast or aggressive.

[Mik_101]

Get some flow and add corals IMO

[justinl]

Anthony, i have heard that royal grammas with seahorses was a bad idea. reason being that grammas tend to be faster moving and too aggfressive for the horsies' liking.

other than that i agree with anthony's advice. slow peaceful fish is the idea. i personally like the idea of a couple cardinals. just keep bioload in mind.

[bv_reefer]

True they are quite fast-moving, but with lots of live rock all they do is hide,
or so i've heard...

[revgeoff]

OA has some nice cardinals so I was thinking two of them to make the whole thing complete.
As for flow, I only have a maxijet (or whatever they are called) 400 plus return flow from the skimmer and canister filter.