panmanmatt
Well-Known Member
If you find yourself with a sick or injured seahorse, please answer the following questions when starting a thread. It will greatly help me to help you.
To help with an ailing seahorse, we need as much information as possible. With a seahorse in hand, disease identification is often difficult even by the experts. Diagnosis based on a description is often at best a guess because so much of accurate diagnosis relies on seeing the symptoms and behavior of the affected animal. A lack of information with that description makes diagnosis hopeless. For that reason, please read each question thoroughly and answer as completely as you can.
1) Describe the problem in as much detail as you can. If describing a physical trait, explain exact what you see, shape, color, texture, and size are all important features that should be described. Movement, behavior, behavior as it deviates from the norm are all also useful.
2) Include your aquarium set up, such as size, date set up, filtration type temperature. If you've completed an entry for your tank in the tank DB and its current, you can omit this.
3) What are your EXACT water parameters - list as many as possible, but ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, PH, temperature and salinity are paramount to include. Do not say "my parameters are perfect" as what one person considers perfect someone else may consider a problem. Also, certain ailments seem to be linked with what appears to be "acceptable" ranges of certain water parameters. Also, please include what test kits or equipment you used to test.
4) How long have you had the seahorse?
5) Is it captive bred or wild caught?
6) Where was the seahorse obtained?
7) What are you feeding it? When was the last time its eaten? Is it still eating? Any change in feeding behavior?
8) If there is any background to this problem, please include it. If there is another thread about an earlier occurance of this problem, please link to it.
9) If you have a digital camera, or borrow one, and the problem is visible, please photograph it and post the picture. The clearer the better, but we will try what we can even if the picture is blurry.
Disclaimer: this is borrowed from the Emergency forum at Seahorse.Org
To help with an ailing seahorse, we need as much information as possible. With a seahorse in hand, disease identification is often difficult even by the experts. Diagnosis based on a description is often at best a guess because so much of accurate diagnosis relies on seeing the symptoms and behavior of the affected animal. A lack of information with that description makes diagnosis hopeless. For that reason, please read each question thoroughly and answer as completely as you can.
1) Describe the problem in as much detail as you can. If describing a physical trait, explain exact what you see, shape, color, texture, and size are all important features that should be described. Movement, behavior, behavior as it deviates from the norm are all also useful.
2) Include your aquarium set up, such as size, date set up, filtration type temperature. If you've completed an entry for your tank in the tank DB and its current, you can omit this.
3) What are your EXACT water parameters - list as many as possible, but ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, PH, temperature and salinity are paramount to include. Do not say "my parameters are perfect" as what one person considers perfect someone else may consider a problem. Also, certain ailments seem to be linked with what appears to be "acceptable" ranges of certain water parameters. Also, please include what test kits or equipment you used to test.
4) How long have you had the seahorse?
5) Is it captive bred or wild caught?
6) Where was the seahorse obtained?
7) What are you feeding it? When was the last time its eaten? Is it still eating? Any change in feeding behavior?
8) If there is any background to this problem, please include it. If there is another thread about an earlier occurance of this problem, please link to it.
9) If you have a digital camera, or borrow one, and the problem is visible, please photograph it and post the picture. The clearer the better, but we will try what we can even if the picture is blurry.
Disclaimer: this is borrowed from the Emergency forum at Seahorse.Org
