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[Gem_Seb]

Hello!

 

I got a seahorse tank today!! soo excited! always wanted one and seeing as OH has a 4.5ft marine fishtank in the lounge it only seemed fair! Well i helped out at our local fish shops open day yesterday where i do the odd shifts to widen my knowledge and OH works there on weekends, they gave me a seahorse tank as a thank you for my help!!

 

I went and got all the live rock, sand and salt water today and have to leave it for 2 weeks to mature before i can start adding any livestock! its going to be a long 2 weeks looking at my little empty tank in the corner of the lounge!!

[Snowy]

Oh wow! We always wanted a marine tank, but seahorses are even better!! I INSIST on photos! And I hope they will all have names!

[Lewis]

Wow! How and even better as a present.

 

 

Lewis also wants photos ... even if it is an empty tank

Are there certain ones you're going to get?

[Lesley]

Wow!! - I didn't even know you could get such things!!

 

Can't wait for the photos!!

[Couperwife]

wow how exciting, we had a marine tank, it was amazing

 

I would love seahorses, do you need a special tank?

 

oh, yes, and I would love photos too

 

cathy

x

[craftyhunnypie]

Oh wow! My dad used to have a mini reef tank - it was amazing! I loved the clown fish in the anemones & the feather duster things. We had a huge Australian sea cucumber, bright blue & red. The fish are amazing colours. The hermit crabs used to eat the pretty dancing shrimps though! Grrrrr!

Good luck with the seahorses - so beautiful & elegant!

 

Emma.x

[Gem_Seb]

No special tank requirements as they dont really move around a lot! more about the feeding and care of them really!

 

I love feather dusters as well! we have a few of those in the big tank! Its such an interesting hobby! we have everything natural and do onot use any chemicals so its a mini sort of ecosystem really! ill put some pics up of the empty tank awaiting its residents when i get home from work and also one of the big tank we have as its looking particualry good at the moment!

 

I also learnt what job satisfaction was this weekend as well! even though i worked until 1.30am on Fri night after finishing my normal job then was back there at 6am until 11.30pm i loved every minute of it and got so much out of it than i do in my other job! i feel a career change coming on if i can! im so bored of the 9-5 office job!

 

How come no one still has their marine tanks?!

[craftyhunnypie]

My dads tank, well he bought something that seemed to eat everything! He also got something nasty in it - high amounts of something chemical. It was very hard to get right, so he converted the tank to a tropical tank & kept Australian rainbow crabs. I was so scared of them.

He then had a giant red oscar fish - gorgeous.

When he died, he converted the tank to a vivarium & had a gecko & a water dragon. Mum got fed up of the crickets escaping & climbing up the living room walls. Plus no one would dare feed them if mum & dad went on holiday. We used some serving tongs from the kitchen to drop their food in the tank.

So eventually they went & dad sold the tank.

 

Emma.x

[Snowy]

We had 4 tropical tanks at one point, two in the lounge and 2 in the kitchen. Our biggest was 4' x 2' x 3' deep! Fabulous! We just never got round to stepping up to marine unfortunately. Then children started arriving and we just needed the space! (even the other 3 tanks were 4' long) Maybe one day, when they've all left home

[Ziggy]

Oh wow... seahorses!!!

We have one tropical tank, and hubby wants to get a marine one some time, which I'd love to, but we are planning to get into a routine with the rabbits, hedgehog and dog first... then I'll be ready to learn something new... we'd like the marine tank to be quite a bit bigger than our current tank, which is only 70 litres...

 

May I join in the 'pictures please' chorus??

[Cooks]

seahorses are great aren't they (not that I have ever owned one) I am trawled to the aquatics department by my children on a regular basis

 

They love the big turtles and huge puffer fish that the aquatics place has, our aim is to have a huge wall tank and a large puffer as they always seem to be in too small a tank for how fast they grow I love their teeth

 

roll on 2 weeks sea horse pictures are needed!!!

[Couperwife]

our marine tank died - or rather everything in it died when we went on holiday for 2 weeks, and left someone too look after them, I dont know what they did, but things started dying as soon as we came back

 

I have a large bi-orb, thats doing spare, do you think it would work with seahorses?

 

where do you get seahorses from? are they easy to look after?

 

is this too many questions for a thursday afternoon??

 

cathy

x

[Gem_Seb]

If its a large one it should be ok, you just have to make sure you dont get many bubbles in them as the males bellys and blow up and you will have to syringe the air out if they enhale too many! you will prob be able to keep a pair at least in one. My local marine fish shop get seahorses from tmc (kind of like a fish wholesalers in Bristol) and they also import but i really want tank bred ones, i dont agree with catching them in the wild and putting them in a tank and they also feed on frozen as they have never had anything else before! If you need to know anything go on ultimatereef.com bit like a omlet for fish!

 

They are so relaxing to watch and the thing i love about marines is its a little ecosystem and no chemicals are involved. which actually you need to consider with the bi orb, if it was a tropical tank and you used copper to treat anything in it then you wont be able to convert it to marine... copper will kill everything!!

 

Are there any local fish shops near you? failing that a lot of garden centres and some pets at home have started marine now, just be careful and look for whitespot in these places as the people usually arent experts dealing with them!

 

Hope this helps! if there is anything else you need to know just ask!