Comments on: Seahorse Personality

By: Casidii

Casidii — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:38:15 +0000

this website is a lot of facts about seahorses i dont own one but i but want to now.

By: Rick Sharp

Rick Sharp — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:41:44 +0000

My 3 come to the tweezers to there dinner of mysis 3 times a day.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:33:02 +0000

Hi, Joe, I’m so glad you liked my blog. That’s great that you are doing research before getting your seahorses. I can tell already you are going to be a responsible, successful seahorse keeper. The good news is that Captive Bred seahorses that are bred indoors like our Black Seahorses http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1500+2179&pcatid=2179 are pretty easy to keep in my opinion if your tank is set up properly and you have a chiller. Plus, you CAN usually keep seahorses with a few kinds of fish like tiny gobies and other peaceful, slow-eating fish.

You might be interested in another short blog post I wrote about seahorses here http://www.dfs-pet-blog.com/2009/08/seahorse-of-course/. It just quickly touches on some of the more important points of keeping seahorses. I’ve learned so much from the friendly folks at http://www.seahorse.org over the years, I think you will have a lot of fun browsing the articles and chatting with other seahorse owners there.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:05:50 +0000

Very interesting article and makes me want to become a sea horse owner! Where is a good place for information to start a seahorse tank? I assume they cannot be kept with fish

By: timinnl

timinnl — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:21:37 +0000

I have 21 of the cuties right now. 10 H. zosterae AKA dwarf seahorses, 1 H. comes AKA tigertail, 6 H. reidi & 3 reidi babies at 5 week. All in different tanks of course. The reidi’s have me trained pretty good. If I do not have the food in the bowl 10min after the lights are on, one of the girls will shake the tube leading to the feeding bowl. She also has a habit of bobbing her head out to the water. (That scares me.)

Forget about a quick gravel vac. It is hard when some of them will hitch on the tubing while you are working.

By: CritterHeaven

CritterHeaven — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:51:48 +0000

I have 4 adult seahorses, 1 juvenile and 7 that are 7 weeks old. The adults all have distinctly different personalities. One of the females is pretty shy and comes out in the open to eat and court with her mate. Another female is dancing at the front of the tank every morning at feeding time. The third will literally SIT in the feeding dish waiting her breakfast. Too funny….

By far the closest to an aquatic pet there is!

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:10:04 +0000

I have to agree on seahorses having personality. I have 19 seahorses now. I started with 4 and raised the rest from babies. The mother “Tiny” would swim over as soon as I got close to the tank. If I put my hand in she would hitch to it immediately. She knew that if she hitched a ride and I was cleaning the tank a shrimp of some kind would be exposed when I moved the rocks and she could grab a snack. I always have to move her out of the way. One of the babies now over a year old likes to lay on the bottom of the tank and “play dead” I have gone to fish her out a few times only to have her zip away from me. She will turn her back to me and turn her head just enough to keep an eye on me. They are all so different.

By: Animals Away

Animals Away — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:02:28 +0000

I have never had a sea horse before but I have heard that they are amazing animals. More pet like than anything else you might keep in water.