went to a local fish store did a store tour for you guys got some new predators for kevin who's
having a blast with them today we're going to be setting up the seahorse aquarium we're going to do
a couple of very simple rock structures and attach different types of algae to it
to give the sea horses something to wrap their pretty cute little tails around
something like that eh just a couple i'm likely gonna put it in the tank like that
see here what kind is this look it's almost like java fern i'm doing more of a small test
with this one just to see if i can even keep this stuff alive little planted salt water tank
i'm using the same methods as you do with fresh water too take the plant glue it to the rock this
is going to help with nutrient export it's going to give the seahorses something to hold on to
it's a great idea thank you for thinking of this joey you continue to amaze me and
i look up to you in many ways you are the best fish keeper on the planet and that's just facts
i knew you were thinking it i'll leave that in there for them look at them go
i'm trying to spread it as much as i can but i'm really nervous and excited and want to add the
get the seahorses out of that bag and this is such a cool idea i can't wait to see if um this
is like becomes like kind of trendy and stuff for like more people to get more more planted aquarium
hobbyists get into this um and they actually capitalize and make a saltwater tank absolutely
mesmerizingly beautiful with their real escaping skills and knowledge of plants versus my
this is pretty but this looks good here it doesn't matter i'm having fun i don't need to be a pro
i do like to do this though i like to do it when it works out i like to do i like the aquascape
when the aquascape turns out nice yeah that's fair to say plenty of hiding spaces though plenty of
things for them to grip on to low flow aquarium this is a technically i built this aquarium
and i didn't even know it would be perfect for seahorses
isn't that something that actually looks really cool
i know it doesn't for everybody but i think it does
i think i'll stagger this one just a little bit more over here
i feel like that light should be enough we'll give it a week and see where it goes but man i know
this is sloppy looking let's give it a few days to grow and kind of fill in but this all this algae
should really take off i had a wave maker in here earlier so it's blown this back but i don't care
it's perfect it's not too much it's not too little plenty of crevices and things for the
seahorses to hold on to i'm likely going to feed them right here in a small dish
this my friends is just absolutely incredible and i can't wait to see what other people do when it
comes to saltwater aquariums setting them up like a like a like a freshwater planted tank let's
start using the algae let's start really really cat and we can all grow algae especially me if you
need me to teach you how to grow algae just watch any one of my videos it'll be in there they've
all been acclimated uh to the parameters of this tank including salinity as well as uh temperature
that's really all you can hope for in in a span of an hour or two it'll take weeks to acclimate to
ph or any other changes like that but if you don't remember i got these guys from living reef
aquarium in lower sackville nova scotia i'll leave a link to everything they do in the description
below they always seem like they're bringing in cool stuff that's where kevin came from by the way
so if you want to show kevin some love go follow them somewhere like on facebook or instagram or
their website or i don't know i'm not even sure what i'm going to be listing in the description
i don't know how to add seahorses properly to an aquarium i don't know what the proper
method is but what i do know is that i'm just going to do it here we go zoom in a little bit
they're in the water so and there they go oh oh i didn't mean to make that noise
explore my friends enjoy your aquarium enjoy your planted salted aquarium your
salted planted aquarium one of them is looking like they're breathing heavy and
they're struggling to kind of move around i'd be more concerned if these guys weren't
healthy in their main aquariums in the first place look at you go these guys were in a an
aquarium that was copper treated therapeutic levels for several months they do seem uh to
be doing quite well this is the female and then the male is the bigger one that just passed by
no you're fine look at this this is the perfect aquarium as soon as he got in the tank he just had
to find a place of refuge that's it oh my little baby look at you back there bro look at you go you
big tough guy i do sea horses do that do they like check out their territory immediately and just
like let me check everything out man uh what's the bathroom like and uh where's all the food and uh
man what the one that was laying down i was worried about look at it go
oh man i'm so sorry if i'm not catching the right footage for you guys but uh i definitely
definitely am just enjoying this right now and uh you know i don't even know if the camera sometimes
is pointing in the right direction because i'm watching it in person the camera right now is very
similar to what i would see in person in terms of color as well as exposure so okay let's talk about
look at the big guy in the middle i knew that this was going to be good for them to
have like a little uh avenue between but plus can circle around create all kinds of visual blocks
seahorses bond for life but we do have a trio so it'll be interesting to see what happens here
um this species grows to about six inches and they're probably about four or five inches so
these guys are the hippo campus reedy or rita i like to say read i but i think it's pronounced
reedy uh hippocampus i like to say hippos i use certain words and phrases just to be able to kind
of like remember how things are pronounced and or to remember the name itself but anyways uh hippo
in greek actually means horse and campos means sea monster guys i have sea monsters
campos also means sea animal but i like sea monster better for obvious reasons
some of their common names are the long snout sea horse the slender seahorse of course they have a
tremendous amount of other common names but they are found in the atlantic ocean they tend to have
a bit of a more narrow body and a long thick snout i like these guys because when i think
of a seahorse i always think of that long really long snout the downside to these is like they come
in so many different colors you know orange and brown and red and black and all different types
of you kind of never know uh what color you're going to have now technically they can grow
up to six inches in height but i don't know if that also includes the curvature of their tail
however they do reach sexual maturity by three inches which is really small these
guys are definitely over that so this is uh what i would consider a breeding trio but
likely somebody's going to be the odd woman out because we have a male and two females
i say it's going to be the odd man out because in the wild these guys are pair bonded
they'll they will mate for life with the same female so i might likely have to if i see breeding
and or if i see any sort of bonding just for the safety and loneliness of the other female maybe
we will um take her back to the store and see if they can get in more seahorses of the same species
or not but you know it is what it is downside to these guys is almost like the octopus they only
live for one to four years i would suggest these guys are already a year old but given how active
they are i would highly suggest that they are also in their prime as opposed to in their decline my
goal with these guys moving forward is simple give them what they need let's sit back and observe
i'm not going to push anything on them i'm not going to do anything unless they don't
eat then i'll have to you know interact a little more heavily uh or intervene in in some of the
i haven't even come across what i'll do if they won't eat uh you know bottom line is is i will
build uh a brine shrimp hatchery if i have to or or something along those lines but when it comes
to diet yes they're they are going to need little brine shrimp uh they will need uh you know micro
frozen foods so that's not going to be a problem so long as i can get them to eat my aquariums i've
witnessed them eat in the store aquarium a couple of times so i'm not too uh concerned or worried
about that there's a ton of things that i want to discuss and go over when it comes to sea horses
however i want a little bit more hands-on time with these guys and you know i want to be able to
speak from experience versus something i've read i think that like sometimes a lot of hobbyists
will just regurgitate a lot of things they read uh with no experience and there's nothing wrong with
that we all read and we all learn that way but for me and so many people watching and so many
people learning along with me i definitely want to have a little bit more hands-on experience so
we'll go from there oh one of the coolest things is the mail and you guys probably already know
this you've seen the viral videos the male carries babies in his pouch and
when he's ready to let them go he just flexes his abs and the babies go flying i should have
cleaned the i should have i should have cleaned the acrylic before i started filming these guys
what a distinguished gentleman anyways we now have a seahorse aquarium and i'm not mad at that at all
i always thought they would be so boring but man was i wrong what an amazing animal to keep i mean
they're only acclimating now and getting used to their surroundings so i'm gonna cut this video
short and let them get used to their surroundings and uh you know i hope you guys enjoy it i think
that this is incredibly amazing and i and i can't wait to share this experience with you guys
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