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Heya Pie's, I will have to hold off from getting a marine tank up and running now My Car has crapped out because of that rain on Tuesday, I hit a deep puddle at the bottom of Saint Micheals cres, and the electrics are buggered, so need to spend my spare monies there, *sigh* stuipd modern cars!!. Though i wouldn't mind borrowing that book still, if that is still alright. I need to try and get my head around the set-up and maintance of a tropical marine tank, and decide if i am up to it or not.

No, I do not dive, it's something i want to learn but either don't have the time or the money to do it at the same time. But i will call you later in the week if that is fine and borrow this book, if that is fine also, and do a little reading and see if i am up to having a tropical saltwater marine tank. There seems to be a whole lot more involved that i first figured. As for fish, i was going to get anything that wouldn't annoy the seahorses, so have to be very peaceful

All I have to say to that pies, is "HEll YA". Any help would be awesome and actually seeing a working set-up would be awesome, just hope you can put up with a million and one questions and probably quite a few blank looks like this , :roll: or :-?. Thx's for that tip on the book, i will see if i can find a second hand copy some where.

I have cut and posted this in the beginners corner, due to the fact i will be a beginner to tropical saltwater, I have had for 2 yr's a native cold water marine tank and before that tropical fresh water tank for about 6 yr's, so not new to fishkeeping but a complete noob to tropical marine. Hello all, I mentioned that in the welcome page, i was thinking about starting a warm or tropical seahorse tank, ie, H. kuda and a few ozzy's, and did some investigating today, about what i need, ie equipment and cost. I found out I know crap about what i need and that there are NO stores in Wellington that can show me on the shelves what i need, though I found a guy at Animates called Jamie, who was helpful but i had to order though him what i wanted and as a newbie, i don't know what i need, so a bit buggered there. It's so different to my native cold water marine set-up, I have a fuval 204 and thats about it, plus light's of course and I change my water about every 2 weeks, I collect my water from Pukarua bay. Thats all i have done and I have had no loss's in over a yr, minus the baby's dieing So this post is about, what do i need equipment and environment wise. Plus any site's were i can read anything that would be helpful and of course i supplier that has reasonable prices. I know of Eric at Wet Pets/Touch of Country in Palmy but there must be other places who i can deal with. Thanking you, Malcolm.

Hello all, I mentioned that in the welcome page, i was thinking about starting a warm or tropical seahorse tank, ie, H. kuda and a few ozzy's, and did some investigating today, about what i need, ie equipment and cost. I found out I know crap about what i need :lol: and that there are NO stores in Wellington that can show me on the shelves what i need, though I found a guy at Animates called Jamie, who was helpful but i had to order though him what i wanted and as a newbie, i don't know what i need, so a bit buggered there. :-? It's so different to my native cold water marine set-up, I have a fuval 204 and thats about it, plus light's of course and I change my water about every 2 weeks, I collect my water from Pukarua bay. Thats all i have done and I have had no loss's in over a yr, minus the baby's dieing :evil: So this post is about, what do i need equipment and environment wise. Plus any site's were i can read anything that would be helpful and of course i supplier that has reasonable prices. I know of Eric at Wet Pets/Touch of Country in Palmy but there must be other places who i can deal with. Thanking you, Malcolm.

I Live in Kelburn.

Hi, My names Malcolm and I am living in Wellington now, but grew up in Palmerston North. I first became interested in Tropical fish when i was studing Landscape design and Hort. at Wanganui Polytechnic about 7-8 yrs ago now. But now i have moved onto Cold water Marine. ie. SEAHORSES. (I just love watching them, float around the tank and hunt shrimp). I have only one tank at the moment, a 3 footer but I am in the process of either building/or buying a 1200 x 450 x 500 tank, for which to relocate my seahorses and get a couple more seahorses to boot I have my tank set up in a rockpool style but as yet unsuccessful at growing the plants that i have found, but reading some of the post's here, i might have found some very helpful idea's, which i am very greatful for. With my unused tank, I am thinking about using it as a warmer salt water tank and getting either semi-tropical or tropical seahorses, i know some ozzy one's are over here but not so sure on the types and numbers, plus most importantly COST :lol: Oh yea, are there any FNZAS groups in the Wellington region besides Upper Hutt?

Does anyone know what lighting level i need to keep marine plants alive, like the types that you find in rock pool's around the country, i have tried and tried. they must need a crap load cause at one stage i had 4, 3 foot power glo's on my 3 foot tank and that fail and yes i did work up from 2,3 then finally 4 light's, so i am figuring that i wasn't cooking them with too much light and i still haven't got the right lighting level yet :-?, so have given up for the time being and live with fake plants :evil: I have in my tank, heaps rocks, a couple of bivalue type shellfish, a lot of different starfish, chiton's, univalve shellfish, crabs, 2 types of shrimp, barnacles, about 6 different types of sea anemones (which are awesome when they all open up) and i finally managed to get a kina and 2 wandering anemone, on my last hunting trip for shrimp. whooo hooo but nothing is as good as having living seaweed/plants. I could use deeper level plants but i want my tank to look like a rock pool.

Hey all :lol: I have so far failed to raise baby seahorses thus far. the first batch happened about 4 days after buying a male that turned out to be pregger's. So wasn't ready at all, and between the filter and some shrimp that i put in for the seahorses to hunt and eat, which turned out to be the hunters and got quite a few of the babies instead :-? , I ended up with none. :evil: I have since have had 2 other preg's aswell but I must be feeding them the wrong food (Mainly Brine shrimp) or not enough, either way they aren't surviving, Plus i am using seawater from Pukarua bay, so figure that there are organism's in the water to give them a varied diet but that isn't working. So would love any inside knowledge, on how to increase the odd's.

Wow, thank's jo and peg's. I have been hunting on-line for about a week or 2 for design idea's and in one nite i find everything that i need :lol: NO i haven't been to FNZAS site before this, i don't know how i missed it. I used to belong to the Wanganui chapter of FNZAS, while studing there but now, I live in Wellington and have just discovered you guy's have one in Upper Hutt, so might check it out. I will post how how my tank turn's out and throw my 2 cents worth about what i have learn't about seahorses.

Heya all, I am new to this forum but i have keep tropicals for about 5-6 yrs and started getting into keeping seahorses in the last year or so. I have decided to build my own customized tank, (which i think will show off the seahorses and their living environment better) due to the fact that the local pet store want to charge me nearly $800 for a 1200mm lenght, 450mm width and 500mm high tank, which i think is insane. :evil: I know that i need 10mm thick glass and i know what type of silcone to use, but thats about where my knowledge end's. I have been trying to find a site on how to build my own tank (ie. construction techniques) but so far i have been unable to find a helpful site. So any help or tips you want to throw in this direction would be great.