Box o' Glory

my first seahorse tank

Seahorses

Stats:

Started: April 2003
Tank and equipment:
Size: 65 gallons, 36"l x 18"d x 24"h
Filtration: Tetratec 500 with heater module
Skimmer: AE Tech Sea Dragon hang-on-tank
Water movement: Powersweep 228 powerhead, airpump
Live rock: 47 lbs. (mix of Tonga branch and Fiji)
Substrate: 7" deep sand bed, mix of Southdown, fine aragonite, Kent Mineral Mudd and Kent Marine Biosediment
Lighting: 2 - 175 watt MH (10 hours/day), 2 - 65-watt PC actinics (12 hours/day)
SG: 1.024
Temp: 78°F / 25.5°C

Syngnathids:
1 Alligator Pipefish (Syngnathoides biaculeatus)
1 Janss' Pipefish (Doryrhamphus janssi)
3 Lined Seahorse (Hippocampus erectus)

Other Fishes:
1 Black Percula clownfish (Amphiprion percula)
4 blue-green chromis (Chromis viridis)
1 false percula clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris)
1 Neon Blue Goby (Gobiosoma oceanops)
2 Pyjamma Cardinasl (Sphaeramia nematoptera)
1 Spotted Mandarin (Synchiropus picturatus)
1 Lawnmower Blenny (Salarias fasciatus)
1 copper banded butterfly fish (Chelmon rostratus)
1 six-line wrasse (Pseudochelinus hexataenia)

Corals:
1 Clove Coral colony (Clavularia sp.)
1 Green Finger Leather
1 Green Lace Gorgonian (Pterogorgia citrina)
1 Leather coral
3 Mushroom Anemones, colonies
1 Purple Brush Gorgonian (Muriceopis flavida)
1 Purple Ribbon Gorgonian (Pterogorgia sp.)
1 Purple tree gorgonian frag (Eunicea sp.?)
2 Red Branching Sponges
3 Zoanthid polyp colonies

Invertebrates:
3 Astrea Snail
10 Blue-Legged Hermit
20 Bumble Bee Nassarius
1 Emerald crab
1 Left-Handed Hermit
3 Margarita Snail (Margarites pupillus)
7 Nassarius Snail
6 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Sea Cucumber (Halathuria hilla)
2 Sea Cucumber (Halathuria impatiens)
2 Trochus Snails
2 Turban Snails
1 blue pom pom tunicate (Nephtheis fascicularis)
1 purple nudibranch (Chromodoris species)

Macroalgae and Plants:
1 Caulerpa prolifera (huge patch)
2 Halimeda plant (Halimeda sp.)
6 Manatee Grass
2 Shaving Brush (Penicillus sp.)
6 Shoal Grass
1 Smooth Red Kelp (Grateloupia sp.)
1 Red Grape Kelp (Grateloupia sp.)
12 Turtle Grass (Thalassia sp.)
1 Encrusting Cocium(?)