I see a clip of sea horses in with yellow tangs , do you think you could keep these together long term, could you add seahorses too a reef tank (LPS mainly so not crazy flow)….?
No, you don't want to keep seahorse with "pickers" like tangs or blennies. Seahorse can grow algae and bacteria on their skin and the tangs can see this and harass the seahorse causing stress (and damage the skin) which typically ends up in GBD and eventually death.
@@DoYouEvenFishTank thank you for your reply & information, this was my thought initially but when I saw them with tangs I was like wow I was wrong. Have a great day 👍🏻
@@dazsboxofwater no probs, the usual clean up crew such as snails and mini hermit crabs do a great job instead of the tangs, just avoid the old sea urchins as they have a tendency to eventually capture your seahorse as camouflage which never ends well..
Have to say, it is concerning most of the seahorse in this video have infections or are emaciated (old mate at 3:30 is in a bad way).. This is why most the majority of successful seahorse keepers do not keep seahorse with other fish as many diseases and parasites that do not effect fish (but live in them) effect and kill seahorse. A prime example of this is non-parasitic nematodes and trematodes, they take up residence in the snick cavity (the muscle and bone used to suck up their food) in the jaw of the seahorse preventing their snick action and they starve due to not being able to eat. 4 days without food and the seahorse will never recover. It is also an old wives tale that seahorse don't like strong current, seahorse can navigate strong currents easily as their shape allows them create their own reverse bow wave they can ride around with little effort, this includes moving forward directly into a strong current. It is very common for the seahorse to play/surf in a strong direct the current for fun like a dolphin, especially after having a big feed. I keep and breed 6 species of seahorse and 3 species of pipe fish and this video has little helpful info sorry to say...
“We chop up all these various animals” 😂
Great video how about a video on mandarin goby’s and dragonets explaining the difference between wild and captive care
We have a Mandarin video on our channel now if you have not seen it already!
-Blaine
@@TopShelfAquatics thanks I’ll check it out
Great video BIG DOGGIE 💯👣
Glad you enjoyed!
-Blaine
I see a clip of sea horses in with yellow tangs , do you think you could keep these together long term, could you add seahorses too a reef tank (LPS mainly so not crazy flow)….?
No, you don't want to keep seahorse with "pickers" like tangs or blennies. Seahorse can grow algae and bacteria on their skin and the tangs can see this and harass the seahorse causing stress (and damage the skin) which typically ends up in GBD and eventually death.
@@DoYouEvenFishTank thank you for your reply & information, this was my thought initially but when I saw them with tangs I was like wow I was wrong. Have a great day 👍🏻
@@dazsboxofwater no probs, the usual clean up crew such as snails and mini hermit crabs do a great job instead of the tangs, just avoid the old sea urchins as they have a tendency to eventually capture your seahorse as camouflage which never ends well..
Have to say, it is concerning most of the seahorse in this video have infections or are emaciated (old mate at 3:30 is in a bad way).. This is why most the majority of successful seahorse keepers do not keep seahorse with other fish as many diseases and parasites that do not effect fish (but live in them) effect and kill seahorse. A prime example of this is non-parasitic nematodes and trematodes, they take up residence in the snick cavity (the muscle and bone used to suck up their food) in the jaw of the seahorse preventing their snick action and they starve due to not being able to eat. 4 days without food and the seahorse will never recover.
It is also an old wives tale that seahorse don't like strong current, seahorse can navigate strong currents easily as their shape allows them create their own reverse bow wave they can ride around with little effort, this includes moving forward directly into a strong current. It is very common for the seahorse to play/surf in a strong direct the current for fun like a dolphin, especially after having a big feed.
I keep and breed 6 species of seahorse and 3 species of pipe fish and this video has little helpful info sorry to say...
Lol ain’t not way ima get a sea dragon there like 10,000 dollars 😂
This guy loves to say a whole lotta nothing