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Hi @jclaas how long have you had the light

Hi,I am looking into possibly using a Zetlight on an SPS and mixed reef system, which is the best of the Zetlight range for a 1.2 meter system. How do they compare to maxspect, AI Hydra 52, Radion, Kessill, etc.

No, they are cold water inverts and do not do well in tropical tanks in the long run.

You could consider looking at the various tankmates that can be kept with seahorses and set a tank up with some of the easier ones to keep while researching husbandry of seahorses. Look at the seahorse sections and breeding sections on SARK and MASA as well as join seahorse.org which will be...

It will be interesting to see which species are being bred in SA. Should also result in locally bred species becoming more easily available.

Watch out for it biting juvenile fish, a few years ago at Bayworld we had one in a holding tank (the old 120 000 litre tropical tank) with a stack of juvenile butterflies, etc. that were collected over summer and started to notice the butterflies were becoming tailless from it biting the tails...

I see there is some confusion about the old knysna seahorse breeding project. As far as I can remember, Knysna seahorses were once bred for research purposes at the ichtyology section in Grahamstown, very successfully. Bayworld, East London Aquarium, Two Oceans, uShaka and Pretoria National Zoo...

Not off hand, it is on the bottle I think. If you scratch or do a search through forum posts in the breeding sections and seahorse sections of MASA and SARK you should find the methods that several guys used to raise three types of phytoplankton, rotifers and tigriops. It was simple and very...

I used the same just as successfully as Guillards F2. Used for rotifer, artemia and tigger pods. For seahorses.

R50/kg but shipping will be a lot more

They were adults at about R50/kg at the fishmarket, you can then ask for them to be cooked as you like, grilled, fried etc. but pay extra for that. Sergeant majors and rabbit fish are cheaper :tt2:

They are about R50 here! Saw some about a week ago, but not aqua cultured.

If you can get hold of a vet that works with livestock, they can often get hold of small enough amounts of liquid panacur rather than you have to buy larger amounts. I also think it would be a good idea to possibly dose juvenile tropical marines that are collected.

I was fortunate enough to be asked to help on a project due to my experience at Bayworld, fortunately it went well and I was offered a more permanent position. Due to the confidentiality of the work, I am not really able to say more than it is aquarium related for an international company.

Yes, apparently they just slot in with the wild raggy patterns, hopefully the male also. Working in the UAE in the aquarium field.