seahorses amd eels

Don't think about tankmates yet. Besides getting your new additions use to their environment, you'll also want to learn the seahorses natural behaviors so you can recognize quickly when something changes.

Besides learning about the horses in generally, it's always best to wait and really learn your own horse's particular personality. If they turn out to be overly shy, you may not want to add any tankmates at all.

 

o ya i new that it would be a while untill i put anything in their if i even do. well thanks ill tell my dad

 

I have been reading a ton on horses lately. Everywhere I read says to wait a full year before attempting to add any other tankmates.

 

ya i wasent planing on any tankmates at all but my dad wanted to no

 

This is hitting the nail on the head. Excellent comment.
I'd like to add also, that even after a long period of time before adding another tankmate, you are still going to expose the seahorse(s) to pathogens carried by the new tankmate(s) that may not be tolerated by the seahorse.
Has worked in the past and will work again in the future, but the jury is out on it working for you because the majority of times, it doesn't work well.
However, I think the main concern here would be that you already have a tank that is just under the recommended size for a pair of seahorses (if memory serves correct), and adding any other tankmate is going to overload the system so that either you will have to do an inordinate amount of work to keep everything healthy, or the system will fail, causing the death of seahorses.

 

Maybe convince your dad to build his own eel tanks?

 

garden eel? i thought those were pretty hard to take care of

 

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my LFS says a white ribbon eel is fairly safe with other fish and easy to care for as long as it is eating frozen when you buy it. It has long been the eel of my choice and I haven't had anyone shoot my dreams down yet. I assume it would eat crustaceans though

 

Nevermind my previous comment as it's one more time the LFS was blowing smoke. I just googled a read about 10mins worth before I came to my conclusion.

 

seahorse wait for the food to swim by them and if you have anything in the tank that is a pig such as any eels they will eat the food before the seahorses get food. i was breading dwarf seahorses for a long time so if you or anyone has any questions shoot me a email at [email protected]