As of 12:45am, he's hanging out by his "wife" in the seaweed patch. Will report his condition tomorrow. Thank you everybody for your concern. Appreciate it.

Anthony

Congrats! Looks like he make it....

Hoping for a full recovery :biggrin:

Well, woke up after 6 hours of sleep to check on the seahorse & he's still alive & hanging onto the corky finger gorgonian. Hope he eats today. He took a poop yesterday so I think that's a good sign.

Anthony

Good luck and best wishes for the little guy's continued recovery.

The amount of dedication it takes to properly care for seahorses impresses me. Short of using no unsterilized or sticking to DIY "synthetic" rock, I don't know how you could create a bristleworm free environment. Maybe a side tank with an arrow crab to pick them all clean and then move the rock into a seahorse environment?

Good to hear he's doing better, I hate for you too lose him, he's too cool. Thanks again for all your help while i was down, really appreciate it. The only horses I've had mediacal experience are 1200 pounds.
tristan

Anthony,

Glad to hear that he's making a nice recovery. If you are still heading out my way, you are still welcome to some panacur if you want it. I'd recommend getting anything that will eat bristle worms, but, won't touch your seahorses. Check out http://<a href="http://www.seahorse....ates.shtml</a> for a good list of tank mates, (and yes, the arrow crab is one that they say you can keep with seahorses.... BUT, it's rated a 3, and the description for 3's are"

"The 3's are a bit of a gamble, but work in some cases; watch them with care and be prepared to relocate them if they become a threat to your seahorses."

Not sure if there are any other natural predators to the bristle worm, or at least one that prefers to chomp down on one every once in a while, to keep the population in check, but, if you come across one, let me know, (might be cheaper than nuking the tank with Panacur every once in a while :eek: )

Robert
And yes, I'm cc_bruno :biggrin:

Anthony - great to hear he is doing better - if anyone can make sure of a full recovery its you for sure. lynn is sad that he got hurt. We look forward to a full postive update

Get some rest - both of you

Cheers
Rich

Well, as of 12:14am, he's hanging out on the gorgonian near his wifey & I haven't seen him eat yet. That's when I'll know that this whole ugly episode is past. However, I don't blame him for not eating if he had/has 2 bristles inside his tiny tube mouth. Slowly sifting through my substrate to catch & boil all the little buggers :evil: I'm going to see if OA will bring in arrow crabs for this problem & I hope to get a small dose of Panacur anyways to treat the tank with. Hopefully it'll drive them out of the LR.

It's a catch 20. Feed frequently to keep seahorses alive & fat but risk bristleworm infestations or feed less frequently to control the b.w. but be less than ideal for seahorses.

Thanks for everybody's kind words of concern & prayers for my little buddy.

Anthony (Yeah. Only one more paper to edit & I can go to bed :rolleyes: )

Anthony,

What species of SH do you have? How big are they? I'd be VERY cautious about adding an arrow crab with SHs. Arrows can be highly predatory, especially for slow-moving SHs :eek:

BTW, it's Catch-22, so called after the book by Joseph Heller. Just finished rereading it. One fine book :cool: