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I have kept seahorses in a 28 gallon for about a year, here is my advice:
Ok well, I wouldnt reccomend seahorses being your first fish. I think it would be better to keep some seahorse friendly fish in your tank first, and get used to keeping a reef tank before getting the seahorses. I recommend captive bred hippocampus erectus (lined seahorse) always get captive bred seahorses, wild ones tend to bring in a lot of nasty bacteria and diseases. Plus, they are 100% guaranteed to eat if they are captive bred. They need lower flow than most tanks, so corals with high flow requirements would not do as well. Soft corals are the best choice for seahorses, maybe some birdsnest corals later on. You are correct, all those things are needed before starting the cycle. Seahorses are very sloppy, and will lower the water quality. I would suggest a sump, that way you could get a good skimmer, dont know too many big hang on ones lol. Also, you will want to keep the temperature at 72-74 degrees. I keep mine at 74, and the other fish/corals are doing just fine. As a general rule for adding tank mates, anything that moves fast is not a good choice.I keep mine with gobies and used to have an orange spot filefish with them, but it got an internal infection and died. Do not put corals with long stinging tentacles such as torch corals, hammer corals, or frogspawn. Do not put anemones with them either. Seahorses favorite food is mysis shrimp, that is all mine get. That is all I can think of off the top of my head. What kind of seahorses are you looking into?
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