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FAQs about Seahorse & Pipefish
Identification Related Articles:
Seahorses & their Relatives,
Color in Hippocampus, Part I,
by Pete Giwojna and Ben Giwojna,
Fresh to Brackish Water Pipefishes, Seahorse
Care Guide, Related FAQs:
Seahorses & their Relatives 1,
Seahorses & their Relatives 2,
Seahorse Behavior, Seahorse
Compatibility, Seahorse Selection,
Seahorse Systems, Seahorse Feeding,
Seahorse Disease, Seahorse
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Identifying seahorses Kuda or Reidi? 11/24/06
Dear WWM Crew
I recently wrote to you after my seahorses bred and have now done a
lot of research unfortunately how ever many pictures I have looked
at I still cannot identify my seahorses. To prevent interbreeding I
am acquiring another pair.
<From? Easy to have your source
discern between these two... Kuda is found in the Indo-Pacific...
Reid's in the tropical West Atlantic>
I believed mine to be
Hippocampus Kuda
<Me too... Reid's has a much more attenuated
rostrum>
as that is what LFS said however after talking to local
SeaLife centre I am not sure and they could be hippocampus reidi.
Please please look at these photos and see if you wonderful people
could identify for me. They are approximately 5 inches. By the way
the first batch of fry we have 3 surviving and the second batch
which arrived 15 days later we have approx 60 surviving although I
expect that number to decrease yet. Thanking you for your
assistance.
Yours
Rache Hill
<Mmm... I strongly
encourage you to join the large "seahorse/syngnathid" forums...
particularly the L-serve of OceanRider... there is much known re the
practical husbandry of these tube-mouthed fishes... and this getting
much easier to access. Bob Fenner> | 
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Seahorses... horses? 9/25/05
My 11 year old son wanted to know if
a seahorse is a fish or some other animal? Can you please tell
him. <They are fishes. Some reading for you. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tube-mfi.htm
<James (Salty Dog)>
Thanks,
Joseph's Mom
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