Lois, Lucy and Mini have a few tank mates too. We try not to have anything in the tank that will eat too aggressively or otherwise harass the seahorses. We have a few pipe fish, Mandarins and gobies.
Mini is kept in a small baby tank until she gets bigger. When we found mini we also found a couple of baby pipe fish and decided to put them in the baby tank with Mini. We feed then a mixture of phytoplankton, rotifers, cyclopeezes, baby brine and vitamins 3 to 4 times a day.
Lois checking in to see her future tank mates. She’s waiting for them to graduate to the big tank.This is Mandy, she is a Green Mandarin dragonet. Mandarins are one of the few fish that are suitable for seahorse tank mates. Mandy has a very good personality, sometimes likes to pose for the camera other times she hides out behind the rocks with the shrimps.
Posing for the camera.
No more pictures please! Or I’ll have to call my agent.
Last but not least there is Diamond the Goby. He is likes to hide under the rocks most of the time. His primary task is to mix up the sand. Which he does very well, it took him only one day to move all the sand in the tank. He’s up for a promotion!
The pipe fish are gulf pipefish and chain pipefish, which are common in our area. There is 5 or 6 plus the two babies. We also have resident shrimp, 7 peppermint and maybe 2 dozen wild ghost shrimp. We keep the ghost shrimp stock in the tank as they can live months in the tank. Most live a few weeks before one of the seahorse snatches them up. There is also the cleaning crew of snails and small red and blue legged crabs.
The pipe fish are gulf pipefish and chain pipefish, which are common in our area. There is 5 or 6 plus the two babies. We also have resident shrimp, 7 peppermint and maybe 2 dozen wild ghost shrimp. We keep the ghost shrimp stock in the tank as they can live months in the tank. Most live a few weeks before one of the seahorse snatches them up. There is also the cleaning crew of snails and small red and blue legged crabs.
