Common Name: Pacific Seahorse
Species Name: Hippocampus ingens Girard, 1858
Range: Eastern Pacific Ocean: Southern California, south to northern Peru, the Galapagos Islands and the Sea of Cortez.
Size: Up to 11 in (28 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit offshore patch reefs, black coral trees, gorgonians, branching sponges, and seagrass meadows
General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 60 - 78°F (16 - 26°C) and its natural diet consists of zooplankton. Mostly nocturnal and requires a meaty diet consisting of enriched live brine shrimp and/or enriched frozen mysis shrimp, with several feeding per day. Rarely seen in the trade.
Aquarium Suitability: * * * * *
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* - Suited for the reef aquarium;
** - Better suited for the fish-only aquarium;
*** - Better left in nature;
**** - Needing an aquarium larger than 125 gallons; and,
***** - Needing their own private environment/special tankmates.