Rudie Hermann Kuiter, Aquatic Photographics, Australien
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Hippocampus multispinus (Kuiter, 2001)
Hippocampus multispinus, better known as the northern spiny seahorse, found on the continental shelf of Western Central Pacific: Western Australia to Northern Territory and southern Papua New Guinea. It is benthic on soft bottom habitats between 10 and 60 m, mostly trawled at 20-60 m.
Like other seahorses, this species presumably feeds by sucking small crustaceans and other small prey items, including planktonic zooplankton, into their mouths.
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Hippocampinae
Species: Hippocampus multispinus
Feeding intake.
The fish take a long time to eat at the beginning, before the food is taken up, a close inspection is carried out. After acclimatisation, the offered frozen food is eaten without problems. It should be noted that wild-caught fish behave differently than offspring when it comes to food intake. In the case of offspring, the size of the fish purchased also plays a role in the choice of food.
You can download the minimum requirements for keeping seahorses (in accordance with EC Regulation 338/97) from the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation as a PDF here: https://meerwasser-lexikon.de/downloads/BfN_Mindestanforderung_haltung_seepferdchen_hippocampus.pdf
Hippocampus multispinus, better known as the northern spiny seahorse, found on the continental shelf of Western Central Pacific: Western Australia to Northern Territory and southern Papua New Guinea. It is benthic on soft bottom habitats between 10 and 60 m, mostly trawled at 20-60 m.
Like other seahorses, this species presumably feeds by sucking small crustaceans and other small prey items, including planktonic zooplankton, into their mouths.
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Hippocampinae
Species: Hippocampus multispinus
Feeding intake.
The fish take a long time to eat at the beginning, before the food is taken up, a close inspection is carried out. After acclimatisation, the offered frozen food is eaten without problems. It should be noted that wild-caught fish behave differently than offspring when it comes to food intake. In the case of offspring, the size of the fish purchased also plays a role in the choice of food.
You can download the minimum requirements for keeping seahorses (in accordance with EC Regulation 338/97) from the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation as a PDF here: https://meerwasser-lexikon.de/downloads/BfN_Mindestanforderung_haltung_seepferdchen_hippocampus.pdf
