Aquarium Care
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Net Pen Raised Seahorses
By Administrator
| Date posted: March 17, 2010
Some of you are new to seahorses, and you may be wondering, “What’s the difference between True Captive Bred and Tank Raised/Tank Bred/Net Pen Raised?” These terms are very confusing, even to your local fish shop. Learn what Net Pen Seahorses are and why you should care.
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10 Things You Should Know Before Keeping Seahorses As Pets.
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: April 13, 2009
1. Yes! Seahorses can be kept as pets.
As long as you have the proper aquarium set up, and take take proper care of them. They are protected by international law, but that means their trade is regulated, not prohibited. Most countries allow the free trade and keeping of captive bred seahorses. Captive bred seahorses are [...] -
Dwarf Seahorses As Pets
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: February 23, 2009
Dwarf seahorses, Hippocampus zosterae remains an ever popular, easy to care for aquarium pet. The basics of keeping them are quite simple as long as you follow a few guidelines.
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Flagtail Pipefish In The Home Aquarium
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: November 9, 2005
Flagtail Pipefish, named such because of their large, brilliantly colored tails that they use in courtship and territory displays, is one of the free swimming types of pipefish from the genus Doryrhamphus and Dunkerocampus. The wonderful thing about these pipefish is that most fair quite well in captivity, unlike many other pipefish species. However, there are still some obstacles that need to be overcome when keeping these interesting fish.
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Keeping Seahorses: Three Keys to Success
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: September 12, 2005
It wasn’t long ago that seahorses were considered “impossible” to keep in captivity. Many believed they were only suitable for those with massive resources such as public aquariums. If the home aquarist were to attempt to keep seahorses, they needed to live near the ocean so they could collect food on a daily basis, and even then, they only met limited success.
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Example 20 gallon Seahorse Aquarium
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: September 11, 2005
One issue that new seahorse keepers struggle with is what exactly they need for an aquarium setup to keep seahorses. Having never kept fish, it can be difficult to pick out what precisely is needed to get started. Here is a list of basic equipment and a price brake down, to give an idea of the specifics of cost and equipment to get started.
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Seahorse Tankmates: What’s Safe, What’s Not?
By Will Wooten
| Date posted: June 25, 2004
There are quite a lot of animals that will do exceptionally well with seahorses while still allowing the seahorses themselves to thrive. To guide seahorse keepers in stocking their seahorse tanks with non-seahorse inhabitants, this article contains a list of species that are appropriate for keeping with seahorses.