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Old 01-24-2011, 08:03 PM
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First off, a 14g tank is too large for dwarfs unless you want to keep a lot of them, but is too small for keeping normal sized seahorses.
Dwarfs need grown out enriched baby brine shrimp and because most don't hunt down their food the feeding density has to be quite heavy for the dwarfs to snick food just passing them by when they are hitched.
A 5 gallon tank would be suitable for 3 or 4 pairs, even maybe 5 with excellent husbandry.
Normal sized seahorses need 39g minimum for a pair, with an extra 15g for each additional pair, primarily because it is hard, but not impossible, to keep water quality sufficient to maintain seahorse health in smaller tanks.
Some have had a pair in a 20g but it's a lot of work to keep it up so bacteria doesn't wipe out the seahorses.
Check out the links at the bottom of my page linked in my signature below.

By the way, there is a seahorse forum as a sub of the marine fish forum. You might also want to look at the threads there.
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