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    Seahorse Enthusiasts!

    Good luck in your research and set up. I believe you will find it to be a tremendously rewarding experience, especially because you are taking time to learn about it before proceeding.
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    Seahorse Enthusiasts!

    One of those specific websites for seahorses has been down for a while and it's not known if they can resurrect it. The other is mentioned in a post above, with a link to it. It is the best site on the internet for hobbyist seahorse keeping.
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    Seahorse Enthusiasts!

    Well, I've been on seahorse.org forums for almost eight years now and haven't seen a post about seahorses being hurt from plastic plants. I HAVE seen many posts though about tail rot that had been blamed on tails being dragged across the sand bed and allowing bacteria like vibriosis to get a...
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    Seahorse Enthusiasts!

    As you can see already there are many opinions on seahorse keeping. I now sterilize everything for each seahorse tank I set up after years of trial and error and some seahorse losses. I have been in the reefing hobby for 17 yrs now but into seahorse keeping for only 4 1/2 yrs. I just set up my...
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    Magnesium?

    I use a mix of magnesium chloride hexahydrate and epsom in a ratio of 10 volumes to one as recommended by Dr Craig Bingman. It takes a lot of magnesium to move the levels up significantly for a low reading because of the water content of the magnesium chloride hexahydrate. Have you used the Reef...
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    Why the new rules??

    I have no objection to the rules. For the length of time I'm on a forum, I post little. It's not because I don't want to contribute, but if I haven't had the problems a lot of people have, then I have no experience to offer a solution. If the problem is something I've experienced, then I still...
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    Baby peppermint shrimp

    You are almost certainly seeing MYSID shrimp which are in most reef tanks. They can be seen especially near the bottom between rocks. Occasionally I see them riding on pieces of flake spirulina that I feed the tank and get into a "swirl" between rocks. You will see them more at night after...
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    RO/DI waste water.

    We have local laws that make it illegal to have anything going into the water system. It was designed to prevent unwanted fluid from entering the main system in any way, if something were to go wrong. Anti back up valves in lawn systems have to be inspected by a licensed inspector once a year...
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    who doses randy's two part?

    My reef tanks are LPS dominated with few softies. I keep no sps but have a huge green hydnaphora that some call an sps but isn't. Most corals run between 7 to 12 inchs across the inflated polyp. I keep cutting pieces off an selling them so they don't interfere with each other too much. Some that...
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    who doses randy's two part?

    I too use Randy's (3 parts) and for my 90, I use 300 to 350ml per day of each part. ( I diluted the mag to dose equally with the other two) My sixty five uses about 175ml per day. All other tanks use a little less than these two as the demand is lower for each of the other tanks. Forgot to...
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    Show off your clams here

    Sorry, but the memory is not good at my age but I'm guessing about 8 yrs. Have to find a new home for it because that tank needs a rebuild and I'm switching it to a seahorse specific tank.
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    Show off your clams here

    Well, I'm envious of the clams posted here but I can't keep them as I only use N.O. fluorescent lamps over all my tanks. However, I have a squamosa that doesn't need high lighting and it has gone from 2 1/2 inches shell length to about 13" shell length with mantel touching the front and back...
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    are clowns safe hosting my Trachyphyllia geoffroy?

    I'm curious as to why so many people say "the clown is hosting.....", when in fact, the clown is the "hosted" and whatever it is in, as in anemone for instance, is the host. In that case, the anemone is hosting the clownfish.
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    2.5 gal seahouse tank

    Again, check out the "org" for information as what you heard is only partially true. Wild caught, and some net pen raised need live feedings, but most net pen raised have been trained to eat frozen brine. Unfortunately, they have been called "tank raised" in LFS's but in fact have had the fry...
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    2.5 gal seahouse tank

    Even a good startup population of copepods or mysids or other "pod" life will be decimated by healthy seahorses, to the point where the population could not be depended upon to provide much sustenance, but with luck, will provide at least a few for the horses to "chase down" a live food.
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    2.5 gal seahouse tank

    You have been SEVERELY misinformed. The only seahorse that can be kept in that tank is H. Zosterae which is the dwarf seahorse. "calogy" is H. Kelloggi and will get to 5-6" and require a minimum of a 29g tank for just one pair. If the LFS selling these horses told you this information, Don't...
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    anti foaming

    As I see it, it's similar to using a refugium on a tank system where macro's are grown to use up the nasties produced by decaying food and wastes in the tank. The phyto uses up the nutrient released by the very fast decomposing exoskeleton material and wastes of the brine but there is no food...
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    anti foaming

    Well, it has worked fine for a lot of years now. Everything is bleached before re-use, and the cysts are decapped in bleach also. Same with the phyto. Bleach each use overnight or longer before reusing containers, rigid air lines etc... I've used the adults in my ten tanks including the seahorse...
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    anti foaming

    Don, light is needed for the phyto in their culture containers, but, it is absolutely necessary to also light the phyto in the brine culture containers. As I mentioned previously, I have found a density of phyto to start with in the brine containers, which feeds the brine and continues growing...
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    anti foaming

    Well, I guess I'm out of luck then as the containers are not see through or with sealed tops. I use 26g rubbermaid garbage pails for raising these brine shrimp, so light is not going to go through the sides and must work from the top. Thanks, all, for participating in my thread.
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