Hiya, Had a friend ask if she can have two pairs of yellow sea horses in a 10 gallon tank. Told her I'd ask you guys since I have NO experiance with this little beauties. I apologize now if this should be in the marine fish forum. Kim/Benton, AR
I know nothing about sea horses, but I think that 10 gal is to small for any permanet tank as it is effected by room temp to much. I would use atleast a 20 long and 30 would be even better.
if you doing minature seahorses thats fine but plenty of water changes but if regular size defantly no they need room to swim and a tall tank would be good too
Here another great resource http://www.seahorse.org/ extracted... This is not a hard and fast rule, but most seahorse aquarists use taller tanks. Seahorses need height (2.5 to 3 times the UNCURLED length of the animals) in their tanks to court and mate. At a minimum, the depth of the tank, excluding the substrate, should be at least 2x the uncurled length of the animal. Further, leave a path along the substrate as some seahorses courting rituals require them to scoot along the bottom of the tank in tandem. Several pairs of pygmy seahorses can be maintained in a 5-10 gallon tank (a 10G is recommended because of the difficulties of keeping water parameters stable in a small capacity aquarium. Two to three pairs of medium sized seahorses can be maintained in a 24-gallon tank although a larger tank is preferable to keep water parameters more stable
a good sight for seahorses info is cramer's critters or if you want alot reasding info go on seahorse.org is realy great info
