ABSTRACT

Selected as near as possible to the seashore in order to facilitate seawater pumping as well as collection of live food organisms. Sea-horses prefer to take live rather than dead food or formulated diets In addition, salinity and clear seawater are two very important environmental factors. Experiments have shown that the salinity level should be in the range of 15–35 ppt. Farming of sea-horse should include the artificial culture of these or similar food organisms. In case of shortage of live diet, other feed stuff such as dried shrimp or fresh fish meat can be used as a supplementary diet. Experiments have shown that dried or salted shrimp meat give better results than fish meat. In China, sea-horses used as popular tonic medicine. Body sizes of sea-horses are main quality indicator. Therefore, rearing bigger species is more profitable than growing small ones.