Caring for Dwarf Seahorses

any kind will work it doesnt matter its your opinion on which looks better

 

Sorry to be a buzzkill, I have fern caulerpa and have seen cactus caulerpan and because the stalk is thinner on the fern, it bows under any flow and shreds when you touch it. Thats why I would advocate cactus or manatee grass, just will not bow wildly under flow. Just my 2cents.

 

RC does sell manatee grass, however.

 

if you have a healthy stalk of fern caulerpa it shouldnt do this, it can hold the weight of a tiny seahorse

 

I had a site that sold cactus caulerpa with its seahorses...lost it though!

 

well it seems as you have most of you qustions answered. rember you can ask me anything that you need to know about them.

also what hapeend to the eretucs tank you were thinking about doing

 

Thanks.

I wanted to, but they live can live quite long, really. I don't know what I will be doing in 2 years and I don't think Dad would want to take the time to care for seahorses. Pygmies are nice too and don't live as long(not trying to sound bad. lol).

 

Caulerpa Taxifolia, Caulerpa Floridana or Caulerpa Mexicana are all considered "FERN" Caulerpa and will all hold these horses. One issue though is they all grow pretty fast and can get rather thick so you will have to thin it out.

All of the Grasses unless its Manatee grass sometimes are to thick for these little guys to get their tails around enough to hitch. Turtle Grass gets to be about 1/2 wide where Manatee grass and Shoal grass only get to be about 1/4 to 3/16". One issue with the grasses thought is that they all require at least 4" of sand to grow.

Sean These horses have the exact same temperature requirements as the bigger ones do, between 70 and 74 degrees so you might want to consider using some sort of LED lighting to help keep the heat down. The Caulerpa will grow just find if you use LEDs also so that isnt an issue.

Also you must gut load the Brine shrimp after they are more than 18 to 25 hours old. After this amount of time they have used up the Yolk sac that they are born with and are of really no nutritional value unless fed or "gut loaded" with something like Selcon.

 

gazon has some great advise for you, and i always thought that dwarfs were way harder then erectus or kuda

 

dwarfs are fairly straight foreward except they cannot be weaned onto a frozen food diet like erectus and kuda can. also gut loading the brine is a good way to bring nutritional value up or you can use mysis. it has better nutritional value