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nyc joe
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Today I wake up to find 2 seahorses dead.
My largest preggers one (big black)
and my smallest one (mini)
both are stiff as a board, still hitched but rock hard, getting picked at by the tiny glass shrimp I have for food. They are not breathing, moving, nothing. I triple checked. no spike in ammonia or anything.
there was nothing to show that they were sick, in fact they all ate happily yesterday. today, dead.
All parameters are fine. nit-10
needless to say I am very sad.
The other 2.
seem to be sluggish today now.
I have noticed the female twitching.
I had a breeder tank set up for some babies, which just became a QT hospital tank. not so funny how a turn of events it became the opposite.
I grabbed both horses out of the DT and put them in the QT.
I did a formalin dip, for 30 mins before putting them in a methelyne blue solution in the QT. they both perked right up.
They just ate some frozen, and i siphoned up the leftovers.
I dropped the temp to 68. have some fake plastic plants so they can hide and hitch. I have 2 airlines going with a sponge filter, that i keep in my sump (bio). They seem to be doing fine, no more twitching. but they do appear sluggish. maybe due to the drop in temp.
I do have other fish in the tank. 60 cube with 20 gal sump. a pair of firefish, 1-pink spot, 1-bangaii. a pistol, and a few small glass shrimp as feeders, they get taken down once in a while. All is fine here and not one of them is acting out of the ordinary.
So what went wrong?
Tank is a little over 8 months old, was cycled and prepped for 2 of those months. I keep my tank at 74. this is what it always is in the house and the tank. I do not have a chiller or a skimmer. I run a fan if it goes above 74, on a controller, its almost never on. Ive been blessed. ( i think, but, not so much now) all params are fine, and always been fine, I test every 2 weeks. I do water changes every 2-3 weeks.
im guessing vibrio, since ive read on seahorse.org that, fine one day, dead the next, may be a symptom. Maybe bacteria, or a parasite? both?
Please help, am I doing something wrong? I dont want to lose the other 2. I really wanted to raise the babies.
Constructive criticism welcome.
Thanx
-Joe
My largest preggers one (big black)
and my smallest one (mini)
both are stiff as a board, still hitched but rock hard, getting picked at by the tiny glass shrimp I have for food. They are not breathing, moving, nothing. I triple checked. no spike in ammonia or anything.
there was nothing to show that they were sick, in fact they all ate happily yesterday. today, dead.
All parameters are fine. nit-10
needless to say I am very sad.
The other 2.
seem to be sluggish today now.
I have noticed the female twitching.
I had a breeder tank set up for some babies, which just became a QT hospital tank. not so funny how a turn of events it became the opposite.
I grabbed both horses out of the DT and put them in the QT.
I did a formalin dip, for 30 mins before putting them in a methelyne blue solution in the QT. they both perked right up.
They just ate some frozen, and i siphoned up the leftovers.
I dropped the temp to 68. have some fake plastic plants so they can hide and hitch. I have 2 airlines going with a sponge filter, that i keep in my sump (bio). They seem to be doing fine, no more twitching. but they do appear sluggish. maybe due to the drop in temp.
I do have other fish in the tank. 60 cube with 20 gal sump. a pair of firefish, 1-pink spot, 1-bangaii. a pistol, and a few small glass shrimp as feeders, they get taken down once in a while. All is fine here and not one of them is acting out of the ordinary.
So what went wrong?
Tank is a little over 8 months old, was cycled and prepped for 2 of those months. I keep my tank at 74. this is what it always is in the house and the tank. I do not have a chiller or a skimmer. I run a fan if it goes above 74, on a controller, its almost never on. Ive been blessed. ( i think, but, not so much now) all params are fine, and always been fine, I test every 2 weeks. I do water changes every 2-3 weeks.
im guessing vibrio, since ive read on seahorse.org that, fine one day, dead the next, may be a symptom. Maybe bacteria, or a parasite? both?
Please help, am I doing something wrong? I dont want to lose the other 2. I really wanted to raise the babies.
Constructive criticism welcome.
Thanx
-Joe
