Help dwarf seahorse stuck at birth

[Robert Gifford]

Hello, my male dwarf seahorse is giving birth but only the tail is showing, the tail is still moving around, but he's been like this for an hour, is it usual?!

 

[pegasus]

Flower would be the seahorse person who comes to mind for that question. She may not have noticed this post just yet, so I'd send her a message and ask if she has any experience with this situation.

 

[flower]

I think the baby is seriously stuck, males do a kind of jerk motion and release their babies... I posted in a private message for Robert to contact the emergency seahorse.org site... I have never heard of such a thing, it doesn't sound good. Those little tiny dwarfs would be hard to help.

 

[Robert Gifford]

Thanks, but I have to wait for the admin to approve my account. I'm not sure how long this usually takes

 

[Kristin1234]

Please update us!!

 

[Robert Gifford]

He's still like that, but the babies tail is still moving so it's still alive

 

[kdsealyon]

Oh no. I hope the baby gets out okay.

 

[Robert Gifford]

It came out earlier, It's the only one that came out so far. I'm not sure if it's going to live because it is so small and barely moving. It just sinks to the bottom

 

[kdsealyon]

What a wee little thing. I'm so sorry Robert. I sure hope it makes it.

 

[Kristin1234]

How's that baby doing?

 

[Kristin1234]

What is he in?

 

[Robert Gifford]

Hi sorry for the late response, but when I got home yesterday he was dead, I was pretty sure since he wasn't swimming or anything.

 

[kdsealyon]

Hi sorry for the late response, but when I got home yesterday he was dead, I was pretty sure since he wasn't swimming or anything.

I'm so sorry. What about the other babies? Are they doing okay?

 

[Robert Gifford]

It's weird because he didn't have the other ones yet

 

[kdsealyon]

It's weird because he didn't have the other ones yet

How odd. Maybe the one is a preemie or something was wrong with it so it was spontaneously aborted? I don't know anything about seahorses, except that they are mystical and beautiful.

 

[Robert Gifford]

That's what I was thinking because it was smaller than usual and not swimming

 

[streamer]

just noticed your post, hope that everything went ok... update us, thks...
this is very interesting to me, I am in the process of setting up a tank for some ponies, I am going with males only, I don't have any experience with babies...I am so lucky, on another site there are 2 ppl that have tons of knowledge raising them so they have volunteered to be my mentors...

 

[flower]

just noticed your post, hope that everything went ok... update us, thks...
this is very interesting to me, I am in the process of setting up a tank for some ponies, I am going with males only, I don't have any experience with babies...I am so lucky, on another site there are 2 ppl that have tons of knowledge raising them so they have volunteered to be my mentors...

Hi,

I doubt this person is still around... If you like seahorses, you can get Erectus or Kuda horses, captive bred...they eat frozen Mysis shrimp, and are as easy to care for as any SW fish. Those little zots are a pain, you can only feed them newly hatched baby brine shrimp.

 

[streamer]

the 2 ppl that I was referring to are very well experienced raising seahorses, I am so very lucky to be able to call them friends..
I know that the babies are a pain to raise so that is why I am leaving them to the experts...

 

[flower]

the 2 ppl that I was referring to are very well experienced raising seahorses, I am so very lucky to be able to call them friends..
I know that the babies are a pain to raise so that is why I am leaving them to the experts...

Um..It isn't the babies, the adults have to have newly hatched brine shrimp or they starve. As far as seahorse babies, the dwarf horses are the easiest because they stay in the tank with the adults.