If you do end up with sea horses I would highly suggest captive bread
sea horses more over those train to eat frozen food. Otherwise you'll
not only have to keep the seahorse alive but the food they eat. A
question to the group are there any home based water testing packages
for PCs like active monitors for water toxcity and PH levels ?
Regards,
Kev
--- In tropicalsandmarines@..., Ruth Collingwood
<ruthcollingwood2002@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi Fran
> 
> Any marine speacialist will tell you to start with hardy fish,
clown, damsel, chromis etc just to mature your tank, problem is what
do you do with them once your tank has been matured if you only want
to keep seahorses? the shop won't take them back, I myself would not
consider buying from another tank but only the aquatic shop I buy
from and most marine keepers will feel the same, unless they have a
quarantine tank.
> 
> Anyway good luck!
> 
> Ruth
> Fran <frankie.londonwebb@b...> wrote:
> Hi Ruth, Thank you for your advise its realy helpfull. We are still
not sure wether to start with normal more hardy marine fish first as
we dont want to be unresposible. Thanks agen for your help.
> Francesca.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ruth Collingwood
> To: tropicalsandmarines@...
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [tropicalsandmarines] sea horses
>
>
> Hi
> 
> I have not had no experience with sea horses, but surely the rule
should apply to them as they do to all marine species, water
conditions have to be near perfect, it has taken me almost 2 years to
stock my tank with fish and live rock, soon I will start on the
coral, it takes time because each time you add something you have to
wait for the toxics to level out. Sea horses are delicate, so will
need a mature tank, this will probably mean that you will have to add
a large lump of live rock, each time waiting for levels to drop
before you add another, could take some time!
> As soon as you start adding rock or any other hardy species, do a
water change of around 10% every week, testing the water every 2 - 3
days, you may even have to do 2 water changes a week if levels rise
too much.
> 
> Hope this helps, if I can help anymore give me a shout.
> 
> Ruth
>
> flondonwebb <frankie.londonwebb@b...> wrote:
> My partner and I have in the past kept tropical fish but would like
> to make the step into marine, to be persific sea horse. We have
read
> four books on the subject and asked people that have experance but
I
> have got two opinons on keeping seahoures, one is that I should get
> experience with marine fish first because of the difficults of
> keeping sea houes and the other is that as long as In read up on
the
> subject and understode the responcbillys that it would be ok as a
> beginer to marine tanks. I would like your appions and advise as I
> do not want to be irrspocible. Sorry for the spelling I am
Dyslexic.
> Thanks
> flondonwebb.
>
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