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About Pacific Seahorse
Pacific seahorses are medium-sized seahorses with a stocky body and prehensile tail. They display variable coloration including browns, yellows, grays, and reds, often with intricate patterns and leaf-like appendages along the body for camouflage. Males typically develop a brood pouch below the belly for carrying eggs.
Key facts
- Care Requirements
- • Minimum 55 gallon tank with minimal water flow (less than 1× turnover per hour) • Temperature range 68–77°F; stable conditions critical • pH 8.0–8.3; salinity 1.020–1.025 • Provide dense seagrass, macroalgae, or seahorse hitching posts for anchoring with their tail • Feed 2–3 times daily with mysis shrimp or copepods; avoid competition with faster fish • Quarantine strictly before adding to reef; susceptible to ich, vibrio, and lateral-line disease
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Care Level
- Expert
- Diet
- carnivore
- Difficulty Level
- Pacific seahorses are extremely challenging in captivity, requiring pristine water quality, slow water flow, live food availability, and very stable conditions. They are prone to disease and stress-related mortality without expert care.
- Reef safety
- Reef Safe
- Diet Details
- Feed frozen mysis shrimp or live copepods 2–3 times daily. Seahorses are slow feeders and require frequent small meals. Supplement with enriched frozen foods designed for small-mouthed species.
- Min tank size
- 55 gallons
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 68-77°F pH: 8-8.3 Salinity: 1.02-1.025
- Aka
- Pacific Seahorse
- Feeding Schedule
- Feed 2-3 times daily
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