[panmanmatt]

Originally Posted by kwajgal1990

Oh, and it's easy to keep them out of the filters. I have dwarf seahorses who have babies all the time. They're tiny! I just keep a sponge filter over the intake spout. They need to live in a really small tank anyway in order to keep the density of live baby brine high enough for them to feed. The tank is small and low flow.

H. barbiganti adults are about the size of H. zosterae babies. I wouldn't even imagine trying to find a sponge small enough to stop the babies from getting through and still moving water efficiently.