Cowbox's semi-converted Seahorse tank

[cowbox]

Hey guys,

Decided to take up the challenge of keeping seahorses. Have been reading quite abit on it.Here's my setup. 2 ft tank, with overhead filter and Red sea prizm skimmer. T5 lighting one white n arctic blue. Currently no chiller.

Currently tankmates include 2 clown fishes. mandarin, yellow wrasse, and a chromi.

Have lotsa algae plants so that they can graze on if i can't feed them, so far still quite fussy with food.. tried feeding live brine shrimp n frozen mysis shrimps.

Seahorses grazing amongst the algae.

I have 2 pairs in my tank.. Think they r tiger tails.. not sure of the breed.

closeup pic

Seahorses caught kissing!!!

Another full tank pic

[cowbox]

seahorse video

[Gouldian]

Yes, they are tiger tail (Hippocampus comes).

The macroalgae will adsorb nutrients and at the same time provide a refuge for copepods to grow and in terms be hunted down by your SH.

SH are slow and fussy hunters, so they may be out compete for food by your fishes.

If you are keeping SH only with fishes, you can try to use the feeding bowl method to wean your SH to take frozen mysis.

HTH

[angelfishlover]

seahorse video

The link doesn't seem to work....Anyways nice tank with seahorses!!!Your tank might be full of pods i guess which is good for them.Got light snak for em

[onizukaa]

wow, all the best bro!

just wanna enquire whats the macroalgae you have inside and how much does it cost / where to buy.

[cowbox]

Sorry can try youtube But funny can only view in High Quality... :S

I believe this algae to be a form of caulerpa algae. I read that there's another one that is like bubbles or grape caulerpa. I bought them at Ah beng's.. They carry different types of algae in their shop. But do take note that they do become asexual, and they will release fumes into the water, causing it to go cloudy right? So i think need a gd skimmer.

[cowbox]

Thanks Gouldian and angelfishlover

Currently got fishes .. recently gave away my regal tang so now left fishes that are not too aggressive. I usually feed the fishes with pellets first then i doze 1/2 to one cube of frozen mysis shrimp enriched with garlic guard. Would want to try the bowl method but think the fishes will "queue" first

[Gouldian]

Sorry can try youtube But funny can only view in High Quality... :S

I believe this algae to be a form of caulerpa algae. I read that there's another one that is like bubbles or grape caulerpa. I bought them at Ah beng's.. They carry different types of algae in their shop. But do take note that they do become asexual, and they will release fumes into the water, causing it to go cloudy right? So i think need a gd skimmer.

You can prevent them going asexual by doing frequent trimming. Alternatively to to get chaetomorpha, they are more stable.

[brendan_toh]

Hi winson,

nice to see you going into seahorse. heh. Looks like you are always ahead of me. Keep the good job up.