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Seahorse lover http:///t/379537/time-for-a-few-pics/20#post_3490670
Thats understandable. Id be nervous to but if its something that has got to be done then id do it. I was nervous right before i got mine because of people having to do stuff like that. I almost changed my mind but then i read that some people dont have to many problems like that so i figured id try it and hive them my best. Im so glad i went ahead and got mine. I love them!
Well...I don't go too crazy trying to save a sick fish either. I do try when it comes to ich. If it's a medicine I can dose the hospital tank water...sure. When it comes to a syringe, or opening a tiny pouch to release air...nope.
I am kind of that way about humans too. I watched a good friend in the last stages of liver failure...every hour on the hour they came in an took blood. For what??? So they could tell him it's getting worse and at what pace....When my Dad finally reached the end, we put him in hospice care, they managed his pain and left him alone to die natural surrounded by family. I even objected to them coming in to take vital signs, and subjecting him to the cuff of the blood pressure monitor.
I'm sure the fish/seahorse would be happier in their home tank surrounded by other seahorses/fish or at least in a place where they could just breathe, than to be removed from the water...held by a giant hand I was terrified of, and have a needle the size of my tail inserted into my sufficating body...I imagine the pain would be horrible. As for opening a pouch...could you imagine an orifice of your body being forced open by a giant finger or flat giant tweezers...OMG...just let me die already.
I really love having seahorses, but there is a limit to what I will do to save them. Taking a sick creature, terrifing it, and causing it more pain....and 75% chance it won't help anyway....not me.
