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Here's a great article on How to Keep Seahorses.  I decided to put the article here for 2 reasons.  First, the article promotes captive-bred seahorses, and second, proper care and husbandry of both wild and captive-bred seahorses helps to keep them from dying and the demand for wild ones down.  There are great programs for breeding wild-caught seahorses for release into the wild (this article doesn't go into that), like a few I participated in Florida.  Proper care of seahorses can lead to an amazing opportunity to witness the life of a highly reclusive sea creature, and one that has inspired the hearts and minds of people for ages. 

 

http://blog.marinedepot.com/2014/08/seahorse-aquarium-how-to.html

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Thanks for sharing, I have thought about setting up a small fuge/seahorse tank for a while, I like the idea of turning a fuge into another DT, not sure how efficient they are but they look cool

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We have our very own local WAMAS seahorse breeder here -- Walt, of Seahorse Conservancy.  He's currently posting to his thread on building a 380 or so gallon tank.  If anyone wants to breed them, I'd suggest that you get them locally because his will not have the parasites that doom 99% of wild caught seahorses.  

 

I heard Tricia describe the programs that she worked with down in Florida and they were doing some amazing things.  If anyone wants to support the Florida programs ot help release native seahorses back to the Chesapeake those would be great programs to participate in.  From what I heard, about 20 years ago they spread chemicals to reduce the thick seagrasses in the Chesapeake and the population of seahorses, pipefish and just about everything else received a near fatal blow from which they still haven't recovered.

 

Tricia, thanks for posting that great article.  

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oh boy the first lady thats what we do im just the fish guy my niece brooke is the director, yes we have to wait 240 more days for nonprofit status but we also want to take care of the seagrass beds with out them there is no place for the horses to live!sorry had a beer, posted on do it youre self the seahorse holding tank my old breeding tank will have to do untill i build the big one, wow who is that lady we need her

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 seahorses  into the wild we should not talk about, but i think i could release a 1000 in the spring? im more into mapping the grass beds that are clean enough, we have boats on the bay, they are there, north of the bay is an erectus but its different palagic babies cold water the bays at the hamptons have them

allmost done small

300 horses

 

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Good for you. It's fun and they have slightly different requirements but not as hard to keep as everyone makes them out to be. It's much, much easier with lots of pods living in the tank (and they love to hunt).

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