Seahorse pictures

if they are eating frozen mysis then they must be captive bred (good for you!) and they were adult size or close when you got them right?

 

Correct. They were on the small side and a little skinny. The female in the pictures was originally all black.

 

I love seahorse pictures!!
I love to keep them even more.
As mentioned, you need to do the investigative work first and then be prepared to do the work to maintain them afterwards as it takes more work than any marine tank does.
While there are some success stories in keeping seahorses in conditions not suitable by today's standards, there are MANY more failures.
Even doing everything as best recommended can't guarantee success.
For information on what you need to know for starters, go to the links at the bottom of the "Seahorse Keeping" page in my link in the signature below.

 

Beautiful seahorses. I lost one of mine during our move :-(

 

im glad you posted this, i was gonna post a few helpful links but you got it summed up...id love to have some but i think the powder blue tang would be alittle to agressive for any

 

Amazing pictures and great info on the care. Thanks for sharing

 

If I'm not mistaken (and I might be on this one) the H. erectus vary through life span from black to yellow and sometimes black to red/orange. OR the yellow H. erectus that is totally unhappy turns black.

are those H. erectus?

 

Bout how much flow do you have turnover wise in the tank, We haev a seahose tank and arent sure we have to much or enough flow. right now the turnover is about 6x Not sure if we could get away with adding a small powerhead or not.

great pics btw!

 

They are reidi.

I would definitely bump up the flow of that.

 

Colours of any seahorse are mostly determined by their own individual bodies and doesn't have much of anything to do with a progression.
Seahorses born from the same birthing, kept in the same tanks can have individually different colouring.
They change to suit their own needs as each individual sees fit, but within the capability also of the individual and species.
Some species have more colour ranges to change through IF they want to, but again it can depend on too many variables to know when you buy a seahorse that it will end up any certain colour.
As for flow, the important thing is to have hitches in each area of flow, low, medium and high, so they can pick what area they wish to be in at any given time.
Most of my seahorse tanks are 40T with 20g sumps but in the display tanks I have a Hagen 802 (I think they are now called Aquaclear somethings) with a quickfilter attachment, and a small mini-jet power head. The quickfilter prevents snouts and tails from being caught up, and removes the smaller particles of uneaten food remaining in suspension. I clean them out every other day along with the overflow screen that also traps uneaten food.