Breeding
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Breeding Dwarf Seahorses
By Rodrigo Flores
| Date posted: September 26, 2007
The one species I had not had and that I wanted was the Dwarf Seahorse, Hippocampus zosterae. So at the beginning of spring I ordered 20 Seahorses all for my own. I set them up in one 40-gallon Eclipse tank with 2 biowheels and I put the intake in a Hydrosponge so the horses would not get sucked up.
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Raising Seahorse Fry: The Fish Bowl Method
By Tami Weiss
| Date posted: April 3, 2003
The system I use for raising Hippocampus reidi fry is a modified pseudokreisel. Kreisels and pseudokreisels are tanks with a circular water flow most often used for keeping jellyfish. For H. reidi, and other pelagic seahorse fry prone to air snicking, you can use a drum fish bowl for this purpose.
The design originally suggested by Pete [...] -
It’s Rodeo time, Hippocampus erectus style!
By Ed Curran
| Date posted: February 19, 2003
My fascination with seahorses began a long time ago, it all started when I was a boy reading the classifieds in Field and Stream, an ad selling dwarf seahorses caught my eye and that was that. I ordered the ponies and proceeded to watch them die one by one over the next few days, I [...]
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Solving Problems in Seahorse Culture
By Todd Gardner
| Date posted: September 1, 2001
Although seahorses have been spawned and reared in captivity for many years, a simple, effective, and reliable culture protocol is still sorely needed. The purpose of this article is to report on my preliminary rearing trials and the solutions to some of the problems I have encountered.