Possible to add sea horse in my 60G tank

Hi everyone,

I am trying to see if possible to add sea horse to my 60 gallon tank

My tank setting as followings

60 gallon display tank
20 gallon sump
2 maxspec g2-160

2 small clown fish
1 baby blue tang
1 pipe fish
1 watch man goby

Also with some soft coral LPS and SPS.

I keep the tank at 78 degree, water change 5 gallon, sometime 10 gallon every two weeks. It has been almost 1 year, everyone seems happy and coral grow crazy.


Is that possible to keep a sea horse in my tank?

Thanks in advance.

 

sea horses dont like a lot of flow and are hard/messy to feed best in a tank designed around them so with sps in ur tank ur flow is most likely too fast for horses

 

Just from your title I can say

No.

 

Low flow for seahorses is an old wives tale and is no longer considered to be a requirement. In fact, many keepers have flow rates of between 10 and 20 times.
It MAY be possible but not likely in your tank.
Tank mates are not suitable,(quite stressful for seahorses and also likely to out-compete for food) and you probably have corals with stinging tentacles in the tank that will cause a problem.
While some do succeed in keeping seahorses at 78°, it might cause problems as the higher the temperature, the more likely it is to be bacterial problems that seahorses succumb to quite often.
Another thing to consider is the fact that seahorses are "messy" eaters, and many report problems with sps corals suffering in the not so pristine waters.

 

thanks everyone for the quick respond. I guess I am going to drop this idea.


What about setting up a seahorse tank? any area I should be more focus to make it success?

min 30 gallon
6 month old tank

those are the info i got so far.

Thanks

 

^low flow rate

 

yes, species tank. same with pipes

 

Very reasonable real life answer, rayjay. Fwiw, the flow in my tank is ~22x, and I could bump it up more and the seahorse would be fine. Most of the flow is directed at the upper portion where the SPS reside, while the SH is usually at the lower half.

This would be a good general direction. I'd say do a little more research to find out what type of SH you would like to keep, and what is actually available, then go from there.

 

I would say no. I have a seahorse only tank 55gal right now. I hold 3 reidi horses. The first issue is that you need to keep the water temp down below 75 degrees. I keep mine at 73. This is because horses are prone to getting a bacteria that only grows above that temperature. Second, I'm worried about the tang. I have to feed the horses using a turkey baster at least 2 times per day with frozen mysis shrimp. They are very slow moving and by the time they see the food and strike the other fish will have eaten it already. Don't get me wrong they strike their food at a lightning pace but its the seeing the fooding and getting ready to strike that is the slow painful part.

 

you couldnt possibly keep them with other fish, they are one of the slowest animals so therefore they need time tog et to their food. they would starve in your tank and be subject to aggression.