My Seahorse Pictures

[Joanna]

I thought I would put a few pics of my seahorses and tank mates for you to have a look at. It was really difficult to get good shots as the seahorses wouldn't keep still for long enough. I couldn't get a shot of the Pearly Jawfish as it became camera shy the minute I tried to take a pic. I'll catch it another time when it's not looking.

Full tank shot.
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00688.jpg

Juno our 'Spiky Seahorse'
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00363.jpg

Zeus the Alligator Pipefish
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00546.jpg

Orion and Mercury
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00501.jpg

Is my belly really that big!
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00545.jpg

http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00667.jpg

Party in the algae
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00685.jpg

Venus on the Feather Duster
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00488.jpg

Athena in the algae
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00495.jpg

Snake Pipefish
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00528.jpg

Yellow Coral Gobies
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00557.jpg

Feeding Time
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00360.jpg

http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00673.jpg

Venus again
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp336/2yellowseahorses/DSC00665.jpg

[zimreef]

Cool pics. Wow, that's quite a collection you have going on there!

Tank looks very clean - how long has it been set up?

Are any of the occupants breeding?

John

[Peculiar_Clown]

Very nice Joanne, what do you feed yours? Are the pipes and snakes singles? Do you have any pickering amongst them?

Like those mushrooms, an unusual spotted colouration on them.

Any details on the set up of the tank, size, lights, pumps, filtration etc.

Sorry about all the questions, I'm nosey.

[pinkpony]

love your setup, as peculiar clown says can we have more details setup etc?

imalso running a seahorse tank, i love themtheirmy babies

where did you get your pipe fish from?

[zimreef]

themtheirmy

What's a themtheirmy? :D

John

[pinkpony]

What's a themtheirmy? :D

John

should read 'i love them their my babies'

doh,its been a long day :) and for some reason my space bar keeps not working :annoyed:

[angie.m.c]

good luck with the babies when they arrive he looks ready to go any day

[Joanna]

Thank you for the nice comments. This tank has been set up since 22 August. I started keeping seahorses back in May in an Aqua One 620T. I was keeping tropical freshwater fish at the time and set up the new tank for seahorses without any experience of keeping marines. I soon overstocked the tank so upgraded to an Aqua One Regency 100 (220 litres). I now have rather a lot of seahorses so (we) are very thorough with the water changes. There has been loads of breeding and babies but we haven't managed to rear any as of yet due to various problems and not enough time to dedicate to them. We will be trying again though at some stage. Orion looks like he is pregnant at the moment. As for what I feed them on, it consists of frozen mysis, frozen brine shrimp with garlic and live brine shrimp when I can get it as they really enjoy it. I try to give them more mysis than anything else because it is more nutritional. I also put Cyclopeeze in the tank for the pipefish and gobies, although they happily chomp on the seahorses food.

At the moment I have one Alligator Pipefish. I did have another one but it wouldn't eat anything and died. This one requires special care as it won't eat food that drops to the floor and it also has spells where it completely misses the food when it tries to eat. It seems disorientated. I make sure I spend the time target feeding it each day so that it gets enough to eat. The snake pipefish and blue-stripe are singles but I am waiting for one of our LFS to get me another of each. None of the pipefish bother each other.

The tank size is 100 cm x 40 cm and 60 cm tall. The lights are T8 and one is Actinic. The filtration is a 1000 lph external cannister with mainly Lithaqua media and bio balls and a bag of Purigen. I have 2 Koralia Nanos set up in the tank but only one is plugged in at the moment.

I certainly do like my mushrooms!

The Aqua One 620T is still set up and I have put a couple of fish in it so that I can have the best of both worlds (Coral Beauty, Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse, Bi-Colour Blenny and a goby of some kind that I haven't seen since putting in the tank on Friday). It is double the work although saying that, fish are less time consuming than seahorses.

Joanna

[Joanna]

Pinkpony

themtheirmy ha ha. :roflmao: You've got me started now!

I got the Snake and Blue-Stripe Pipefish from our local LFS. The Alligator came from further afield, somewhere I would never recommend and will probably never go to again!

Does anyone know if the Snake Pipefish is actually a Snake Pipefish as one LFS calls them that and another one calls them White Pipefish?

Joanna

[Peculiar_Clown]

Thanks for the details Joanna, I find the Sea Horses time consuming too.

[Viv]

Very nice set up you have there Joanna. Inspirtation to all of us!

[Joanna]

Very nice set up you have there Joanna. Inspirtation to all of us!

Thank you Viv. :thanks:

Joanna

[denise.gardner]

i brought 3 snake pipefish then looked them up on the internet and it said they where australian banded pipefish home marine in enfield has loads of them also simply seahorses has them 17.50 each