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A 12g cube is far too small to keep kuda. They need a tank with a height of at least 3 times their full uncurled length. It's not the volume of the tank that's the problem...you can keep a pair of kuda in a 15g...it's the tanks dimensions. Dwarves are available on a regular basis from several...

marillion, What kind of seahorses are you planning on putting in a 12g tank?

No, you're thinking of H. bargibanti - Pygmy seahorses. They're smaller and as of yet, not able to survive in a captive enviroment. At least not at the hobbyist level. I believe that there are some public aquariums that have some. Here's a Pygmy.

Sure Matt, I was refferring to Hippocampus zosterae aka the Dwarf seahorse. There are other seahorses that are just as small, or even smaller, but none of them are suitable to keep in our home aquariums. I menion that because sometimes "dwarf" is used incorrectly to describe other species as well.

No need to apologize. There's a lot of misinformation regarding seahorses out there. :)

There is absolutely no reason that a 5g tank couldn't be used to house dwarf seahorses. In fact a 10g tank is generally considered the maximum reccomended size for a dwarf tank. Once you go beyond 10g it becomes too hard to control the food density. A 5g tank would be ideal. Dwarves require...