Blake's Seahorse Tanks

Hi guys, I thought I would finally share some pics of my tanks with you. This is my 60 gallon rimless cube tank that houses 8 Southern Erectus Seahorses, along with the occasional softie, various gorgonians, and macro algaes. It has been setup for about a year now. I also breed seahorses and will post some pics of them later, along with my 46 gallon seahorse tank. Let me know if you have any questions!

FTS


A Little Closer...


A Few shots of the Ponies...






And the corals/macros...







Enjoy! Let me know if you have any more pic requests.

VERY VERY nice Blake


Like the heard of horses


Thanks for posting!!!

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy them as much as I do.

The LFS I work at just put one together with 2 ORA horses.

Tanks looking great Blake!

Thanks Mike!

That's exciting! What species? Keep me posted, and I would love to see some pics!

Love your pony tank Blake!

What kind of filtration do you use?

Thanks! Me, too it's my favorite tank I've ever had. I use a HOB Remora skimmer (rated up to 75 gallons), a sealife systems skimmer (Rated up to 75 gallons), micron bags, and I always run carbon. I also do a 20 gallon WC once or twice a month.

Nice. I was curious because I saw a horse stuck in a built in overflow/skimmer at a LFS last week. After reading some info on seahorse.org it sounded like that was something to be careful of.

Thanks for the insight, I would love to have a dwarf horse tank in the future.

I've been ok so far...You can see in the first pic, my overflow has eggcrate across the opening so the worst they can do it get stuck on there, which has never happened.

I tried dwarf seahorses, and honestly they bored me. You can't keep much with them and they are not very active. The tank was also a pain in the butt to maintain. They are awfully cute though!

I may have to consider non dwarf though I wanted to keep the tank at around the 10 gallon size.

Very nice Blake, the first horse pic, does it actually have algae growing on it's head?

Also what are the nitrates like in a tank like this? Is it hard to keep them in check?

techguy, why not do a 20 gallon high and do a pair of fuscus? They stay relatively small and would do fine is a tank that size. It has the same footprint as a 10 gallons as well.

Skinz, yes, he has a little cyano on him. They sit so still sometimes that it happens occasionally. The nitrates in this system are always very low...I think I have the macro to thank for that. My phosphates jump every once in a while up to .25 or so...But I just run some GFO and that usually takes care of it.

Originally Posted by BlakeT

techguy, why not do a 20 gallon high and do a pair of fuscus? They stay relatively small and would do fine is a tank that size. It has the same footprint as a 10 gallons as well.

I will have to rethink things. Now that I unexpectedly got a 60 gallon tank maybe my 28 gallon can be re-purposed?

Sounds like a great idea to me techguy!

Yeah me too! Try seahorses once and you will be addicted for life. They are so amazing.

I did, my lfs told me way back when I was still a noob that I could put seahorses in a reef tank....

And to that I say this:

damn thats come together so well Blake! any idea what your temperature range is at? Id love to do some but not if I need a chiller, what do you think a safe depth is for them? (really impressed!)

That's a shame skinz... LOL at the pic.

Thanks Steve! I'm glad you like it. Remember back when I first got it back on the fuge? Good times...I just put a chiller on this tank (I got an amazing deal!!!) but I have kept seahorses for 2 years and managed to keep the temp down with fans. It needs to be 74* or below. You could always get a temp. controller, set it for 74* and whenever it hit 75* it could turn on the fan and turn it off when it cools back down. By depth, do you mean like tank height?

yes, depth height, bottom to top lol, of coarse I remember, it was an unusual tank to start with and your room was far to clean lol