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I've never found any documentation to support that statement and would be pleased if you can provide such a link, especially related to serpent stars.
I have been using serpent stars for almost 16 years now as my only clean-up crew. No hermits or snails. I put 3 to each tank other than my seahorse...
While I've never said anything about cruelty, I did say that what you are doing, while it can work sometimes, it fails most of the time. I didn't say...
The unfortunate thing about this thread is that many reading it will make the decision to keep seahorses under similar circumstances. While...
Could be freshwater ghost shrimp or mysis, or salt water mysids. You will not be able to grow enough in one tank because they take about 3 months to...
Have you ever seen a grown man cry for day's on end???? (well, at least not over a woman;D)
Unless I get more fry from somewhere there really won't be much in the way of updates on fry as these are being sold starting in two weeks. If I can...
What kind of shrimp do you want to breed? If you can buy them cheap, it's the way to go. Mysid take a long time to grow to any size and need a lot...
I have 47 with roughly half at 7 months and 8 1/2 months each. I had 104 more from a batch that was 4 1/2 months old but did something stupid and...
Steve, I'm not sure what details you are looking for. I got the seahorse fry from another hobbyist same day they were born. These are from 2...
For you seahorse fanatics out there, here are a couple of pics of my H. Reidi seahorse fry I've been raising. [IMG] [IMG]
I'm a four year seahorse keeper at this point, and have experienced first hand what can happen when one doesn't follow the recommendation of the more...
There is no cleanup crew that can handle normal seahorses in a 10g tank. If you think about it, the snails will eat the leftover food and produce...
A tank cannot do anything more than "treat" the seahorses with pod life. Whatever you try to grow has to be large enough to entice the seahorses to...
Thanks for inquiring first before doing. You most likely have saved the life of a seahorse.
10g is not sufficient for anything but dwarf seahorses. H. Fuscus is the next smallest but they grow to 4 or 4 1/2". I know of one hobbyist keeping...
Another thing to watch for is that most cheaper "captive bred" seahorses are raised in seawater or in cement containers where regular water changes...
Dwarf seahorses, H. Zosterae, are very small, need small tank and have to be fed BBS daily. They will get up to about 3/4" with 1" being exceptional...
Have you checked out the library and articles sections on the org? IMO, the best site for information on seahorses.
I've used tap water for most of my 16 years in the hobby. I'm fortunate to live where a great treatment plant delivers pretty good water to me from...
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