Actually, they arrive tomorrow. I ordered from Foxy Tropicals in the Keys. They are a Florida Keys collector, so they have quite a bit of Caribbean stock at pretty good prices (10 for $50 for the dwarves). Their store is at mysaltwaterfishstore.com. I also ordered some macro from Gulf Coast Ecosystems (live-plants.com) out of Tampa.
Newbie wanting seahorses
- Thread starter mrsmoose
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The ponies are in the tank. Cute little buggers. Here are a few pics. I put the macros and a couple gorgonias in, but haven't really aquascaped yet because it is my son's tank and that's his prerogative, but I think it is going to look really nice when it is done! Unfortunately, he's out of town for a couple days (on an awesome school field trip to Skidaway Island Oceanographic Institute) so he hasn't even seen them yet!
I've got an Aquatic Life mini skimmer in the tank now, but I'm going to pull that out as it was just too loud for a bedroom. The tank has the brine breeder for food supply and an air-driven filter to provide some water movement. It is hooked to the main system, getting a constant trickle flow through a quarter inch line off the main manifold, with a half inch drain line gravity fed back to the main sump (about 40 feet away).
Foxy sent 12 horses instead of 10, double the number of snails I ordered, and threw in the tan gorgonia as a bonus.
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I've got an Aquatic Life mini skimmer in the tank now, but I'm going to pull that out as it was just too loud for a bedroom. The tank has the brine breeder for food supply and an air-driven filter to provide some water movement. It is hooked to the main system, getting a constant trickle flow through a quarter inch line off the main manifold, with a half inch drain line gravity fed back to the main sump (about 40 feet away).
Foxy sent 12 horses instead of 10, double the number of snails I ordered, and threw in the tan gorgonia as a bonus.
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Tank is a standard 20H. Now that we have them in there, I don't think it is too big if you have enough of them, but I don't think you would want to go larger. We got 12 in the order, and there are already 10 babies! My guess is that once the first batch grows up, that will be about the right number for the tank. If their survival and reproduction rate keeps up, I think we'll be in the sea horse business soon.
