Going From Fw To Marine

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I want to turn one of my Aqua One fw tanks into a marine, so I know I would have to empty it of fish, substrate, decor and water and clean it out right? Do I want to start afresh with all new ceramic noodles and filter medium in the wet/dry tickle too? Just completely start again yeah?
 
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It's a 22 gallon and I am going to run it for long enough to have seahorses, what could/should I stock with to begin with?
 
i wouldnt start out with seahorses...... Not exactly easy to feed.....
 
i wouldnt start out with seahorses...... Not exactly easy to feed.....
Captive bred are easy, you just feed mysis and the like.

Wild fed may need some live foods to entice them, but keeping sea horses is nowhere near as hard as many people think, especially if you research a little on them.
 
Hya

In my experience most captive bred seahorses (Kuda, Riedi, Fuscus) aren't usually that difficult to get feeding as they're weaned onto frozen food at an early age. The problem is making sure their tank mates are also slow feeders. (Seahorses just like to contemplate their food for a while first). Many of the tank mates suitable for seahorses are more suited to a well established system.

After the tank has fully cycled and is suitable for fish I would start off with something like a full clean up crew (small hermits, snails etc)

I would be inclined to start with the seahorses (many will probably disagree with this and shoot me down in flames!). The justification for me saying this is that if you do enough research and get healthy, feeding seahorses, you can get some experience with them first and let them settle fully in the tank before adding anyone else who may cause them stress. I found it was far more difficult to interpret natural (in a tank) seahorse behaviour when there were other tank mates in with them. Once you are completely happy with your seahorse keeping skills you can start to think about adding other fish. I found that suitable seahorse tank mates were harder to keep than the seahorses! I keep my seahorses with fish such as copperbanded butterfly fish, shrimp fish, garden eels, gobies, pipe fish and shrimps (obviously you would need to select according to your tank size). I have also had far more success with seahorses when using loads of live rock and macro algae.

Hope that helps

Oh and I've just seen the above post - agreed - seahorses are not as difficult to keep as people often think
 
Sounds good

I have no idea where to start anyway, I need to do lots of research into whatever RO means and the equipment I need, then get the right sand and some live rock in there and learn about polyps lmao, this is all so new to me. I am feverishly and systematically reading all the journals and FAQ's on here.

I don't know if I am going to keep anything with the seahorses fish wise, but I like the sound of a clean up crew, because I know seahorses are kinda messy, so it would be a good combo I think.
 
Im doing the same thing today actually. Just took my 3 pacus to the local aquarium and went out and bought my sand and salt to start setting up tmorrow :) GL to you.

Oh and RO I believe stands for reverse osmosis.
 

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