rykna
Active Member
All of you know I have been on a ongoing search to find answers and resources to help make our seahorse tanks successful.
Since last September I have been cycling and preparing a tank for seahorses. Everything in this tank had been previously bleach, boiled, and sterilized to remove any possible parasitic threats to new tank occupants. I reseeded the tank with cultured pods, and slowly the rock and sand came back to life.
Within the past two weeks I purchased two pairs of Kellogii seahorses. Both pairs died with in days of arrival. Before the second pair died I was able to take them to a local vet and got a very good look at the parasites that were plaguing the sea horses. The small cut of dorsal fin from the male was crawling with two main parasites: Myco Bacterium and Hexamita Bacteria. Myco bacterium is also known as Fish Tuberculosis. This Fish TB can be pasted to humans.
The vet gave me two medications. Metrodazole, to treat the tank. And Ceftazidime, a antibiotic injection for the seahorses.
After talking with a private breeder their suggestion to prevent future infections is to destroy everything in my current DT.
I find this very hard to accept. I could really use some input.
~Rykna
Since last September I have been cycling and preparing a tank for seahorses. Everything in this tank had been previously bleach, boiled, and sterilized to remove any possible parasitic threats to new tank occupants. I reseeded the tank with cultured pods, and slowly the rock and sand came back to life.
Within the past two weeks I purchased two pairs of Kellogii seahorses. Both pairs died with in days of arrival. Before the second pair died I was able to take them to a local vet and got a very good look at the parasites that were plaguing the sea horses. The small cut of dorsal fin from the male was crawling with two main parasites: Myco Bacterium and Hexamita Bacteria. Myco bacterium is also known as Fish Tuberculosis. This Fish TB can be pasted to humans.
The vet gave me two medications. Metrodazole, to treat the tank. And Ceftazidime, a antibiotic injection for the seahorses.
After talking with a private breeder their suggestion to prevent future infections is to destroy everything in my current DT.
~Rykna