*I recommend pipefish with caution. It is best to obtain captive bred pipe fish. Wild caught pipefish can carry pathogens that can harm the seahorse.
IMO, this is true for ANY fish introduced to a seahorse tank.
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*I recommend pipefish with caution. It is best to obtain captive bred pipe fish. Wild caught pipefish can carry pathogens that can harm the seahorse.
Hi rayjay and welcome to R2R. We have quite a few seahorse enthusiast here and I know your experience will be appreciated.IMO, this is true for ANY fish introduced to a seahorse tank.
O no, I am sorry to hear all that. Teeth...you can't live with them and you can't live without them!Thank you for the welcome. After signing up here today, the rest of the day didn't go well though. First I broke a tooth after supper, and just now I fed the seahorse tanks and found a dead male in the abdominalis tank. They were all OK today for the first two feedings and I didn't see anything to be concerned about. Worst deaths are the unexplained ones.
A great way to know for sure is to quarantine anything newI may have a problem... my seahorses will arrive a day after the fish! I tried to delay shipment for a day or 2 but they already shipped this morning before I saw the notice in my email. Will 1 day make a difference? I have a royal gramma, tailspot blenny and McCloskers fairy wrasse (very peaceful and not as fast of an eater as other wrasses) coming.
agreed! Cleaner shrimp can actually stress the seahorses.That is good that you have a plan B for any fish that are not compatible.
Yep algae does grow on seahorses. Actually they don't mind and are able to scratch on coral or something when they want to remove some. The only cleaner shrimp that I can suggest without reservation are peppermint shrimp. They rarely clean a seahorse which is a plus. Other species of cleaner shrimp are so over-zealous about cleaning that the ponies are spooked over the whole thing. The one downfall about peppermint shrimp is that if they are small the seahorses view them as dinner rather than tankmates!
Yes.....i'm stalking your profile. haha. in a nice way! I'm impressed . You said you didn't know me, so I'm fixing that problem by knowing you .the problem with fish in the seahorse tank is not necessarily one of agression. the faster moving much better swimming fish can outcompete the horses for food. horses take an eternity to eat. i turn off all the pumps in my tank, place their food in the old trydacna shell that serves as their feeding fish, and go upstairs and take my shower and get ready to go out. when i'm done, i turn the pumps back on (actually, i don't, i let alexa do it!!). they are very slow, deliberate feeders who knock more mysis out of the shell than they consume, which is a good thing because they then have to go hunt for it. but be careful about too many fish, particularly fast swimmers, in with the horses. in my tank, i have bangaii cardinals and pj cardinals, dartfish, mandarins, scooter blennies, and watchman gobys. all of these are very mellow and don't mess with the horses.
I find that quarantine of fish not to be the be all and end all because the fish may have pathogens and it's own system is capable of handling the pathogens so that the hobbyist has no idea of possible problems.A great way to know for sure is to quarantine anything new