flower
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Originally Posted by Al&Burke http:///t/390235/every-seahorse-is-dead#post_3454546
Flower have you thought of putting the remaining SH in your 90 just until you get your SH tank sorted out, might be an idea.
The surviving horse was very weak, I put him in water from the 90g in a container to make him as comfortable as a fish can be made comfortable until the end. I lost all 4 horses, none survived. I haven't found the body of the 4th horse...I keep looking in the tank for it and kind of hoping to find him clinging to a column...but the CUC must have done a really good job.
The plan:
I'm going to run some carbon and wait on the water change so I can do it if there is an ammonia spike...right now the parameters are stable. I'm going to go ahead and order some pods to seed the little refugium in there. Once I feel secure that no ammonia spike is forthcoming I will do a nice big water change and order some new horses. The live fish in there gave me hope that the tank can sustain life...it was a temporary problem that the horses couldn't make it through.
Live and learn.....In the future if my filter clogs I will flush it into a seperate container and not into the sump. My horses were sensitive and delicate and I had lost my caution because they seem to survive everything. They even made it during the power outage.
I was thinking of a couple of potbelly seahorses. I have the chiller...they can't be in water warmer than 71. While I'm waiting to see what the tank will do, I will do some research. I need to find out if the macros and pods can handle a tank that cold. Seahorse source has them for sale. They also have Ingens, fuscus, kuda and reidi as well as the erectus...they actually have them available.
After having seahorses for that long (over a year, problem free) I can't imagine not going for it again. I feel I was successful in keeping them, but made a fatal mistake.
Originally Posted by Al&Burke http:///t/390235/every-seahorse-is-dead#post_3454546
Flower have you thought of putting the remaining SH in your 90 just until you get your SH tank sorted out, might be an idea.
The surviving horse was very weak, I put him in water from the 90g in a container to make him as comfortable as a fish can be made comfortable until the end. I lost all 4 horses, none survived. I haven't found the body of the 4th horse...I keep looking in the tank for it and kind of hoping to find him clinging to a column...but the CUC must have done a really good job.
The plan:
I'm going to run some carbon and wait on the water change so I can do it if there is an ammonia spike...right now the parameters are stable. I'm going to go ahead and order some pods to seed the little refugium in there. Once I feel secure that no ammonia spike is forthcoming I will do a nice big water change and order some new horses. The live fish in there gave me hope that the tank can sustain life...it was a temporary problem that the horses couldn't make it through.
Live and learn.....In the future if my filter clogs I will flush it into a seperate container and not into the sump. My horses were sensitive and delicate and I had lost my caution because they seem to survive everything. They even made it during the power outage.
I was thinking of a couple of potbelly seahorses. I have the chiller...they can't be in water warmer than 71. While I'm waiting to see what the tank will do, I will do some research. I need to find out if the macros and pods can handle a tank that cold. Seahorse source has them for sale. They also have Ingens, fuscus, kuda and reidi as well as the erectus...they actually have them available.
After having seahorses for that long (over a year, problem free) I can't imagine not going for it again. I feel I was successful in keeping them, but made a fatal mistake.
