Thanks for the shout out Catherine! Yup, I'm hear in WI too just trying to stay warm. :) I'm sure my love of the hobby stems from spending winters trying to pretend the outside doesn't exist.
As for ponies, I got lots. Probably too many. :P I have a dozen or so dwarves, a pair of H. fuscus, 3 H. erectus, 3 H. reidi and a single H. comes. I also have a bunch of pipefish. I've bred and raised seahorses with mediocre success. I've been keeping seahorses since 1999, but took a bit of a break for a while where I only had pipefish. But the bug reinfected me about a year ago, and now I have more than I know to do with. :P
The dwarf seahorses are in a 7 gallon bow. The fuscus have a 15 gallon softy reef, and the erectus and reidi live in a 38 gallon lagoon biotope. Yes, there are too many there, but I had the opportunity to acquire the reidi for next to nothing from a fellow hobbyist. I have a 65 gallon I was going to set up for a puffer but now i think it will be a seahorse tank.
Oh, and the tigertail lives alone in a was-quarantine-tank-but-now-his-home 20 gallon. I'm fairly certain he's net-pen raised and I don't want to risk the health of the other seahorse. I've been looking for a mate for him but they are impossible to come by. He was mislabelled with a bunch of H. kelloggi. The store that I got him from said they periodically got them in with the kelloggi but then decided to stop carrying seahorses (doh!)
Anyway, I'm really happy to be here, and I'm glad I found the site. I am going to try to get some shots of the gang this weekend and post them.
