I just started working at a LFS and they have a pair of yellow seahorses that theyve had for a couple months now. They are doing fine and eating mysis, but today i noticed a small aiptasia on the seahorses tail and one on its neck! We figured that since they are slow moving the aiptasias were able to grow on them. Will this hurt the seahorse? How can we get rid of them without hurting the horse?? Thanks
Aiptasia ON seahorse!
- Thread starter nathang
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Because yes, they can hurt the horses
Here is an interesting side note - we received some flashlight fish, and they arrived in rough shape, so we lost a few. Since they are kept in the dark, it is difficult to observe them - but if/when they die, we perform a post-mortem. On two recent cases, we removed some small anemones from their skin during post-mortems. I'd never seen this before, so I asked around. I found a couple of reports of anemones on the skin of seahorses. This makes some sense because the seahorses are slow - but flashlight fish are midwater, and pretty quick. Also, the anemones we found were not of the genus Aiptasia - they were orange with stubby white tentacles....
Jay
Jay
mcdonaldjosh7
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Go with the freshwater dip. They can definitely hurt the sea horses.
ChadTheSpike
Reef Engineer
^Jay, that is an interesting side note. Have you seen the anemones in any of your other work?
Cpt sehorse
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hey guys i've had seahorses for over 5 years usually the aptaisa will move of the seahorse overnight if it stays on for more than a couple of days then freshwater dip
Cpt sehorse
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oh p.s sorry for the spelling issues
