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My seahorses keep scratching there back and curling there tell sideways. i started out with four but one died it was acting very strange it would but its head agienst the side of the tank. it started to curl his tell backwards to the side and every thing. after a 2 days or so it stopped eating. then i would notice it would start to jult back and forth in a shaking motion like it was being shocked or looseing control of its body. The shaking would only last for a couple of seconds but happens often. Then a couple days later i woke up to find out it was dead. I started to cry it was very sad. i still have three left and am starting to worry. please help 

I got them on the first. i feed them frozen cyclopeeze  twice a day and live brine shrimp twice a week. The tank i have them in is the one i won from reef fest its the marineland 60g. This tank is hooked up to a 5o gallon sump that is a common sump for a 210g and the 60g seahorse tank. The flow is very low in the seahorse tank too. I also noticed they were more active and stayed at the top or middle of the tack.

Edited by Ashley - February 20 2011 at 7:51pm

one watchman goby and some mushrooms. I did notice bristleworns in the tank too.

do you know how long the store had them?

what are your water parameters?

oh no! my seahorses dorsal fin has white dots all over it and doesn't look regular he is also having a hard time grabbing on to stuff. i have been watching him for the last 5 min or so and he cant seem to grip on to anything no matter how hard he trys

I think they may have parasites it would explan to scratching itself and one of them ate something off itself. the one that died had crust over its eye it couldn't see. we did a fresh water dip to that one and the crust on its eye was gone. but it still ended up dieing the next day.


Edited by Ashley - February 21 2011 at 12:22pm

ya that's what is happening to mine. Someone ones told me the only place to buy seahorses was seahorse.com because of this. I guess I should have listened. I had bought all my fish from AD and will continue. but just maybe i should try to buy my seahorses some where else but i will continue to buy fish and coral from there.  

I heard seahorsesource.com is the only place you should get them?
 Pam

Thanks(:  and next time I buy seahorses its going to from that website. sad news another seahorse died)); I cant stand to see them in pain or at least that's how they look. I feel like we took them out of their own habitat to keep them as pets and we just end up killing them when they would have been happy and fine in the ocean. life cruel huh

They have white stuff on them too. They are eating still. Josh says they will be fine but personally i am not to sure they will make it): all I can do is hope. I wish we would have bought one at first and seen how it did before we added the others. You should start one up if everything goes good then you will fall in love with them. Some of them will hold on to your finger or even eat out of your hand. They are very loving and that's why it is so sad to see them die.