sea horses

[kat and james]

i was under the impression that in order to keep seahorses, of the marine variety, you have to register, and every few months or so someone from the preservation society comes around to check on the tank, the surroundings and that the seahorses are receiving everything they need to survive. i don't think that just anyone is allowed to keep seahorses.

i have done some research into these types of species, and here is what i found (already posted this on the other section concerning freshwater seahorses)

have just done a quick search on Hippocampus aimei (freshwater seahorse), and according to some sites it does exist, they live in the mekong river, which is in vietnam, apparently it is a very new species (to us), and they are facing extinction (found this on a site about extinction .. quite formal, the ones that state that the species doesn't exist appear to be more amateurish and therefore leading me to believe that the species does exist, but very little is known of it)

however other sites state that the species does not exist.... i'm at a loss..

 

[Jer-]

Keepin Seahorses isnt really as hard as people believe it to be.

I had seahorses back a few years ago and i kept the for over 3 months b4 one died and i sent away the rest cos i was moving overseas to study. Even then they were doing Great, eating very healthily.

I had 2 wild caught Hippocampus Kuda and 2 Captive bred Hippocampus Barbouri. They are both full marine fish.

The Captive bred are much easier to take care of cos they readily accept frozen food. But the wild ones require Live, Swimmin food to catch their attention...but then again they can slowly be trained to accept frozen.

Here is a couple of pix of them.

The yellow ones are Kuda. The white ones are Barbour.

Oh and its generally not recommened to house wild and captive seahorses together as the wild can carry
many parasites. But i was lucky


EDIT: I jus realised that this is a thread that has been revived from the dead.