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Originally Posted by Lprechaun
In Bradenton, Fl there is actually a captive bred breeding and rearing facility. They are extremely easy if they are tank bred, wild caught ones are often doomed from the time they leave the grass beds. They are use to a certain type and style of food in the wild. The captive bred ones are fed from the start a prepared food.
One thing people trying sea horses dont realize is they need a species specific tank, they arent fast enough to go get their own food so they rely on food coming to them so to speak. If there is other fish in there that will quickly gobble up all the food they basically starve to death. Ive kept them and had little to no trouble.
The captive bred ones run about 35-50 bucks here.
Here are a couple of pics of my old ones (I sold them to a breeder)
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So, what kind of setup do they need to survive? I have a 125g that I haven't set up yet. It's drilled for a sump, if I want it. I was originally going to go saltwater with the setup, but I just can't afford 225 lbs of rock for it. If I could just do sand, a few rocks and some SW plants, I'd love to have a seahorse tank.