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Kuiter, 2001
Very special thanks for the first photo of Hippocampus montebelloensis to Tony Ayling.
This is probably the first Monte Bello Seahorse photographed alive.
The whitish seahorse with black zebra-like bands and stripes on the body, and yellow tips on the spines is clinging to a crinoid (featherstar.
Tony has taken his photo in 2011 at Port Hedland, Western Australia, on an open sand bottom at about 15 metrs depth.
He went back to the habitat where his pictures were taken 12 months later and did extensive searches for this seahorse but did not find any trace of them!
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Syngnathiformes (Order) > Syngnathidae (Family) > Hippocampinae (Subfamily) > Hippocampus (Genus) > Hippocampus montebelloensis (Species)
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
Very special thanks for the first photo of Hippocampus montebelloensis to Tony Ayling.
This is probably the first Monte Bello Seahorse photographed alive.
The whitish seahorse with black zebra-like bands and stripes on the body, and yellow tips on the spines is clinging to a crinoid (featherstar.
Tony has taken his photo in 2011 at Port Hedland, Western Australia, on an open sand bottom at about 15 metrs depth.
He went back to the habitat where his pictures were taken 12 months later and did extensive searches for this seahorse but did not find any trace of them!
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Syngnathiformes (Order) > Syngnathidae (Family) > Hippocampinae (Subfamily) > Hippocampus (Genus) > Hippocampus montebelloensis (Species)
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
