Seahorse on its way to RECOVERY!!!!!
Hope I'm not jumping the gun, but it looks like my prayers have been answered. The male seahorse looks like its on its way to being normal again.
Recap: Woke up this morning to my prized male seahorse lying on its back inside a cave looking like death warmed over. Quickly moved heaven & earth (ie. the LR structure) & rescued him. Gave him a close examination underwater (him, not me) and placed him gently into the macro algae patch. Continued lying down & looking uncomfortable so I took him back up for a closer exam & I saw 2 bristles stuck to the left side of his inner tube mouth. My theory is that he accidentally sucked in a bristleworm while eating mysis & it was either inside stuck (or even worse eating him alive) or he had hopefully spit it out but the bristles were giving him indigestion & great pain. Panicked & called 8 local vet clinics but none would agree to give me a prescription for Panacur. Robert (cc_bruno?) was nice enough to offer me some of his but by tonight it started looking better.
The seahorse is now upright & swimming around slowly. Still hasn't eaten but I don't blame him. He's acting normal otherwise so hopefully the worse is behind him. Whew!!! I think we dodged a bullet & I'm going to follow my wife's advice (she's been bugging me for over a year to kill every bristle worm in all the tanks) & catch/nuke all the b.worms in the seahorse tank at least. (and yes, she said "I told you so!", but she was right so I shut up.)
Just thought I'd share the "hopefully" good news. Thanks for all who shared their concern.
Anthony
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