Up to this point I have always wondered what really makes a seahorse happy, today we found out. Since this is our first seahorse tank, we followed the guidelines of general seahorse care. Since we live in an area that has a diverse population of seahorse, we decided to bring their home to their tank. While catching some ghost shrimp for their dinner, we picked up a couple of small pieces of sea grass and micro algae. And they though we where Santa Clause.

Ghost shrimp, aka candy canes for the seahorse

The new seahorse oasis.

Lucy hunting for ghost shrimp

Lucy after 5 or 6 ghost shrimp. Time for a nap.

Lois hunting for ghost shrimp and crabs.

I got you now, you little tasty treat.

Still hunting until the sun goes down.

As soon as we started putting in the grass and micro algae the seahorse rushed over to that side of the tank. Normally seahorse never rush to anything. When they saw the first patch of grass they started dancing around with dreams of fig pudding or I guess for them it would be all you can eat shrimp and crab buffet. We could clearly see that they where very happy about the addition to the tank.

After reading up on the sea grasses and micro algae, it would appear that this is a very good thing to have. Most reef keepers tend to keep rocks and coral and use equipment to do to the job of the sea grass. My vote is to try to make the tank as close to the real sea world as possible.