Horse and Codium Macro Algea

[mangelo]

Please tell me I didn't do something stupid! I just put some of this in today to help absorb nitrates. I just took a video of what my horse is doing. He's got a hold of it with his tail and is just swishing back and forth and rubbing his head on it.

Tell me this won't bother it.

 

[mangelo]

And here he is:

Seahorse playing in Codium Macro Algae

He has since stopped playing in it.

 

[Elysia]

IMO, sounds like scratching. If the scratching continues, the horse may have external parasites, which wouldn't be too unusual considering your horse is WC. The horse may benefit from a fresh water dip.

 

[mangelo]

Did you watch the video? It just looked like he was playing in it. He hasn't done it since at least from what I've seen.

 

[pledosophy]

Seahorses like to hitch to algae. It's part of why I always recommend keeping macro's with seahorses.

Looks like fun to me.

 

[mangelo]

Yeah, doesn't it?

 

[namxas]

your SH is most likely HUNTING in the codium...this is one of the benefits of live macro. i venture to guess if you got a "bushier" macro, the SH would migrate over to that one as a fave hangout.

one of the oddest things i've ever seen is a female erectus i had used to dive head first into a ball of Chaetomorpha looking for pods. all you would see is about half a SH sticking out of the macro, and you'd SWEAR she was stuck, but she wasn't.