Pictures on my Seahorses

lowride66 · #1 04/20/2005, 09:13 AM

My male seahorse

lowride66 · #2 04/20/2005, 09:16 AM

lowride66 · #3 04/20/2005, 09:18 AM

My female
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nine9d · #4 04/20/2005, 09:58 AM

Very nice. Where did you get them from?

lowride66 · #5 04/20/2005, 11:40 AM

I got them from my LFS. The male was black when I got him, and the female was kinda red but she turned black and now she is light red/orange color this week.

Flipturn88 · #6 04/20/2005, 04:09 PM

Great pics! I love the male's color.

Kayla

ponygirl · #7 04/21/2005, 01:04 PM

I have a male SH that looks a lot like yours. I have been trying to figure out which species he is. Do you know what kind yours is?

Marcie

sealover113 · #8 04/21/2005, 04:22 PM

They are both beautiful. The male looks like a reidi, and though hard to tell from the pic, the female looks like an erectus. I could be wrong though, hard to tell from that angle. Beautiful seahorses!!

lowride66 · #9 04/21/2005, 04:50 PM

Thanks. I was told that they are both H.Erectus

sealover113 · #10 04/23/2005, 06:41 AM

Yes, he is deifnately reidi. Too many spots to be erectus. Good find at a LFS! Are they CB?

lowride66 · #11 04/23/2005, 07:38 AM

I really didn't want a reidi, now what do I do? What is my female, is she erectus?

Yes, they are both CB.

That my explain more why he won't eat frozen mysis.

Paul B · #12 04/23/2005, 07:47 AM

Definately not an erectus. I collect erectus locally in NY and yours is not one. Here is an article I published in "The Breeders Registry" there is a picture of an erectus in it.
Good luck.
Paul
http://www.breedersregistry.org/Arti...l_b/paul_b.htm

sealover113 · #13 04/23/2005, 08:06 AM

This is an erectus click They have lines running through their bodies and those saddle patches on their back like my female ZigZag. The yellow female in that picture in the article doesn't look like an erectus, it has too high of a coronet and it has too many spikes. It looks like a histrix or barb. It is not good to have two different species in the same tank, some species have immunities to some diseases while others dont.
Take care
Alyssa

Paul B · #14 04/23/2005, 08:55 AM

Alyssa, I took that picture in the article and if I remember I collected those seahorses in NY. We only have erectus here but you may be correct, it was about ten years ago that I wrote that article so one of the seahorses may have been different. That picture was not taken in my reef so I could have been mistaken.
These top two pictures I took in my reef so I know they are erectus. The female is transfering the eggs.
Paul

zoocrazy · #15 04/23/2005, 02:01 PM

nice pics

steph

lowride66 · #16 04/23/2005, 02:40 PM

I looked up on Seahorse.org at their identity page and I would have to agree that my male is a reidi. They won't mate will they?

sealover113 · #17 04/23/2005, 03:04 PM

There is a possibility, there have been hybrids. Reidi and erectus would make quite a looker Paul,those still dont look like erectus to me. Go onto seahorse.org and look at the gallery of barbouri seahorses. They look more like yours than erectus. We will see what other peoples opinions will be on that. Gorgeous, fat seahorses by the way. (thats a good thing

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Paul B · #18 04/23/2005, 03:13 PM

Alyssa, if they are barbouri than thats whats swimming off the south shore of Long Island NY.
It could be worse. If I get time this summer I will try to collect some.
Take care.
Paul

lowride66 · #19 04/23/2005, 06:30 PM

here is another pic of my female and male.

lowride66 · #20 04/23/2005, 06:38 PM

The male looks like a reidi and the female looks like a barbouri, but I'm not to sure on her.

Here I thought I had one kind of seahorses and they are 2 total different species.

sealover113 · #21 04/23/2005, 08:21 PM

Still looks like a erectus to me. The body shape leads me to that. The barbs are very spikey and slender with little brown striped snouts.

ponygirl · #22 04/23/2005, 10:18 PM

They are beautiful. Your male looks a lot like one of my males and I just spotted another one in my LFS. The breeder told them it was a Reidi. Your female doesn't look like a Redi to me.

Marcie

Flipturn88 · #23 04/23/2005, 10:20 PM

I agree with sealover--your female looks like an Erectus to me. Beautiful horses.

Kayla

lowride66 · #24 04/24/2005, 05:13 PM

Thank you all. I would have to agree with you all on the female being a erectus, I didn't see it at first but now I do.

bump321 · #25 04/26/2005, 08:48 PM

I have a male Barb and two female Reidi and they just had babies last week. He is now full with eggs again and is quite plump. I didnt think they would/ could breed but they are on the 3ed litter/ herd now. They are so very tiny & its unreal how cute they are.

Bump