Note this is being posted in the South Jersey Marine & reef Club Forum
Okay, so I'm working on a 150 gallon tank to feature nothing but hippocampus erectus. Why because they live off NJ shores!!!!
Can you believe!?! Now I've read in a few books that say they live from Nova Scotia to Florida, however it's thought that they *may* not be the same species, because this would give this species the largest range of any seahorse. Although I've found a few captive breeders to purchase from, I was really interested in making sure it was the same breed of the NJ shore.
So I surfed around wondering if I could get a breeding pair myself and couldn't believe the TROPICAL MARINE fish you can sometimes find off NJ shores and, as this site states, it's legal to collect them if they are tropical!?!
http://www.njscuba.net/biology/sw_fish_tropical.html
I am definitely investigating further . . .