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I recently saw a article on another website about how you could put live rock in a 1 gallon bowl and a pair of dwarf sea horses. I have never done salt water becuase it is out of my price range but this sounded very inexpensive and easy. Any opinions???

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From what I've heard, seahorses are VERY hard to keep alive, need live food (brine shrimp, etc), and are rather expensive.

Even if you don't do seahorses in the bowl, it'll still be a pain in the butt to keep salinity and everything stable (I've got a 2g nano and I have to top it off 5-6 times a day and do daily waterchanges to keep everything stable). I can't imagine how bad a 1g would be

If you want to do SW, start with a bigger tank (atleast 10g... preferably larger...the biggest you can afford )... starting small is a pain in the butt, and it doesn't allow any clearance for beginner mistakes, so ya gotta be really careful if ya do start small!

I don't know much about seahorses (or anything other than what I'm doing in my tank, for that matter ), so you'll have to ask somebody else 'bout 'em

Dwarf Seahorses need on average 8g per pair of ponies....the tank needs to be close to 3 times their height, AND seahorses are not really cheap since CITIES has banned the collection of wild ones. Most dwarf seahorses will run you $60-80 each.

No way would a bowl be healthy for them, or ethical IMO.

thanks


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I emailed the website I found out about this your response.

Comment By: Chris
No offense ment to any of your fish keeping skills however the idea of a "Seahorse corral" is probably not the best idea. 1. Keeping the saltinity in a 1 gallon bowl would be near impossible, 2. Dwarf seahorses are extremely expensive in most places and should not be in a 1 gallon bowl. If you have a correction to anything I have said I would be happy to hear it and use it in my own fish keeping.
Thank you


Response By Clint:
The seahorse corral would be for Dwarf Seahorses only. They are cheap, easily raised by home aquarist and do well in small tanks. See http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/dwarfKeeping.shtml for info about these interesting little ponies. You can also google for "Dwarf Seahorse" and find several sources for dwarfs at $5.00 each.
Thanks for the excellent comment/question and your concern.

from: http://www.petfish.net/articles/How_To/1gbowl.php

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man" Simpsons

im with every one else i wouldnt go for a 1g bowl for sea horses it will be extremely hard to keep them alive in there and the water parameters stable.