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Sea Horse Aquarium
Tank Parameters:
Size: 36 Gallon Pentagon Corner
Lighting: Flourescent ~ 60 watts
Filtration: 2x Emperor 400
Water Changes: Weekly 10 gallons
Live Rock: ~35 pounds
Substrate: home depot sand ~3 inches deep, seeded from my reef tank and from Bill's reef
Heater:2x 150w in this tank
Temperature: 74-76
pH: 8.2
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: <10
Specific Gravity:1.023 - 1.024
kH: 110 mg/L
Feeding: Hikari Mysis
Freshwater Top Off: weekly since is small
My first seahorse aquarium is seen here: first seahorses
Tank Inhabitants:
Fish
- 1 Scooter Blenny "Scooter"
- 2 Hippocampus erectus male and female, born April 22, 2005 siblings
Max & Rita.., and 2 other males (Fleck, Spike) and female (Crystal) 2 months older
I am once again active keeping horses with captive bred Hippocampus erectus from Dan U from SeaHorseSource.com and Karen from her breedstock. The setup is a gulf backreef/lagoonal edge. some fake seagrass until the real stuff grows in more. The pair have bred, and got almost 100 babies, not ready for them, they seemed to feed on frozen brine/rots, but didnt grow, only lasted 7 days.
I now have a nursery setup ready for next batch. Got a supply of decapped brine shrimp eggs from Seahorse Source. The nursery is a 6 gallon eclipse drilled to 10 gallon sump with emperor 400 as filtration and 606 powerhead for return to tank giving fairly circular flow. It is fully cycled (used tank water and filter pads from seahorse tank).
I will be getting 2 males and 1 female from another source, Karen from Seahorse.org. They have arrived: Crystal (girl), Spike and Fleck
The horses are eating well and are acclimating to their new home. Max breeds and delivers ~150 babies every 6 weeks, but i do not have the time to raise at this time...
Feel free to email me with suggestions and/or comments docforestal@comcast.net
This page updated January 11, 2006
