new girl in Florida

[LauraSea]

Hi, I found this site, and looks like you have a great club.  So even tho I am in florida I am joining!  I have been keeping seahorses for about 3 years, I have both tiger tail and erectus seahorses.  I keep the seahorses in a 45,  and have a 20 with shrimp gobies, and a 3 gallon pico with sexy shrimp and macro.  This is a tiger tail female I raised from a fry.

[TroyReeF]

 

[soldiers4christ50]

Welcome looks very nice!!

[bbtm64]

Welcome Laura!
Tank looks great!

[CoralBeauties]

Sea horses are really cool.  How many do you have in your tank?  Have they been hard to keep?  I often thought about adding a smaller tank inline with my 180 reef tank system and keep something like them or nems.  I dont think it would take too much to plumb into my existing system and use the reef tanks filtration and support to keep up the smaller tank.
Jeff

[LauraSea]

Thanks everyone! The tiger tail seahorses are very hard to keep, they are very picky slow feeders.  Tigers won't readily pursue the frozen mysis, you have to float it past them just right.  Took me six months to train to eat from a feeding station.  Erectus seahorses are the way to go, captive bred, eat like champs.  Fusedjaw is a forum dedicated to seahorse keeping, please visit there and you can learn all the right info about keeping seahorses.  I am not sure about sharing systems with a seahorse tank is a good idea.  Seahorses are very sensitive to diseases and parasites. Plus their tank needs to be kept at 74

[SaltLife]

What part of Florida?