Seahorse on its way to RECOVERY!!!!!

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #1 03-12-2005, 05:28 AM

Hope I'm not jumping the gun, but it looks like my prayers have been answered. The male seahorse looks like its on its way to being normal again.

Recap: Woke up this morning to my prized male seahorse lying on its back inside a cave looking like death warmed over. Quickly moved heaven & earth (ie. the LR structure) & rescued him. Gave him a close examination underwater (him, not me) and placed him gently into the macro algae patch. Continued lying down & looking uncomfortable so I took him back up for a closer exam & I saw 2 bristles stuck to the left side of his inner tube mouth. My theory is that he accidentally sucked in a bristleworm while eating mysis & it was either inside stuck (or even worse eating him alive) or he had hopefully spit it out but the bristles were giving him indigestion & great pain. Panicked & called 8 local vet clinics but none would agree to give me a prescription for Panacur. Robert (cc_bruno?) was nice enough to offer me some of his but by tonight it started looking better.

The seahorse is now upright & swimming around slowly. Still hasn't eaten but I don't blame him. He's acting normal otherwise so hopefully the worse is behind him. Whew!!! I think we dodged a bullet & I'm going to follow my wife's advice (she's been bugging me for over a year to kill every bristle worm in all the tanks) & catch/nuke all the b.worms in the seahorse tank at least. (and yes, she said "I told you so!", but she was right so I shut up.)

Just thought I'd share the "hopefully" good news. Thanks for all who shared their concern.

Anthony