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@...> wrote:
Fran <frankie.londonwebb@...> 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 CollingwoodSent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 6:08 PMSubject: Re: [tropicalsandmarines] sea horsesHiI 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@...> 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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