Crash!!!!

[lfduty]

Well some time back I put 2 Seahorse tanks up 1 with a skimmer and one with out a skimmer. Well the one with the skimmer started to have trouble and im not going to say what but you all know the problem GBD. Well to day it did the worst thing plants went sexul and well it CRASHED all is lost but 4 SH's out of 8. But thats OK with me i did it as a test to see what would happen and it showd me what i wanted to see. Needles to say i wont be puting a skimmer on just a SH tank eney more. I know that it was not the SH's that was in the tank that was kering the Gas Bubble Disease be for hand the sea horses i have had for 2 & 3 years and never had trouble out of thim. And this is ALL that im going to say about Gas Bubble Disease. I will say this (IF) you even think that its going to be a problim than DON'T do it..... thanks for leting me do the test and not telling me that i dom a** for trying this. Im SORRY that it cost the lives of good Sea Horses and it wont happen agen with me.
Thanks: ALL.
LFDUTY.

 

[CeaHorseMaShell]

I'm sorry to say lfduty, but this just bothers me. Why would you have to do a test like that. All you have to do is do some research on line. The do's and dont's of seahorses are out there. It would have saved you a lot of money and the lives of four innocent seahorses. Please consult this forum if you need help in the future. We are all glad to share our opinions. Thats what it is here for. So we don't have to do our own research on things that have already been done.

http://www.syngnathid.org/articles/diseaseGuide.html

Please read the section on external gas bubble disease. You will see they have already done this experiment.

EVERYONE should bookmark this page.

 

[lfduty]

just let me say i have doona loot of reading on gas bubble disease. but like i seed some time back some one asked if it was ok to put a skimmer on ther tank and it toled thim no way. and thin some one asked ME Y. Well i gave the textbook ancers and that was not good enuff for thim. and its people like YOU that i ran this test. you can go to all thes web sites and look at all the **** that on thim and still come ont not knowing eney thing. all thay need to do is run the test and say what went on with is and y or y not to run a skimmer and that all. Your to this fourm so get to knoe hoo or talking to and haw long thay been in the job REEF tanks are my life and pay my bills I have researched it all.

 

[luvabunny]

lfduty -

I am going to apologize in advance if I have misunderstood you, as your posts are very hard to read and follow.

First, may I ask why you felt the need to add 4 horses to each "test" tank? Surely, a pair would have let you know what you wanted to find out.

Also, I am not arguing for or against you, but this has been my experience. I have had horses for over the past 5 years, in 5 different set-ups. My very first horse lived up until a bacterial infection took the tank in May. All of my set-ups have contained caulerpa, none of them have ever had a skimmer. My current setup has a large pump blowing bubbles thru a tube bubbler.

My caulerpa has often gone sexual, but never has it caused one of my tanks to crash. It has clouded the water to a point where I couldn't see thru the tank, but I never lost any livestock from it. I suggest you find what else killed your seahorses as I don't believe it was the caulerpa going sexual. That may be an inaccurate deduction.

Secondly, I have only had 1 case of GBD in all of my years of seahorse keeping. That horse was in a tank with absolutely no bubbles - no skimmer, no HOB filter - the only filtration was LR and a couple of powerheads. No matter what I did, that same horse kept getting GBD until I finally did a pouch flush, which seemed to cure him. There were 5 other males in the tank with him at the time. None of them ever got GBD. What I am getting at is blaming the skimmer on GBD may be an inaccurate deduction.

My tank currently has 2 tube bubblers in it, and has had since May. I added them to help dissipate heat, which they seem to be doing. I have not had any problems with GBD since adding them, thus proving that bubbles in a tank may not be as deadly to seahorses as originally believed.

My point is that there are many fish keepers out there who may have answers to questions from experience, and not just spout what they've read in a book. To me, your "tests" were redundant and inconclusive, and amounted to no more than 4 dead seahorses. If you didn't want people to suggest this, then you shouldn't have posted in a seahorse forum where people are passionate about their herd.

 

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lfduty
you need some grammar skills honey