Hippocampus barbouri

Seahorses are a very interesting species of fish due to their unique body shape and distinctive swimming and hitching behavior. Seahorses are recommended for more advanced hobbyists due to their specific care requirements, and are sensitive to fluctuations in water parameters, requiring pristine water quality and cooler water temperatures around 75 degrees. Flow should not be strong or direct as the seahorse are not strong swimmers. In their natural habitat they prefer to live among mangroves, seagrass beds and shallow stony coral growth areas where they will curl their tail around these plants hitching in the aquarium. Use caution when choosing tank mates since they are extremely docile, so fish such as mandarins, small gobies, and firefish make ideal tankmates, along with other seahorses and pipefish. The Barbouri Seahorse is a slow and methodical feeder, so its best to offer small feedings several times per day. These Aquacultured seahorses once adjusted to their new surrounding will readily take frozen mysis shrimp and enriched frozen brine shrimp, or live adult brine shrimp. Hippocampus barbouri is a species of seahorses that belongs to the family Syngnathidae. This Aquacultured species reaches an adult size of 6 inches and are found in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean.