Should I euthanize floating baby seahorses?

[sugartooth]

Oh boy. Our GFCI tripped, don't know how long without power but found my 1 month old baby seahorses were floating at the top.
Should I euthanize, if so, how?

 

[luvabunny]

It has been my experience that some floating babies will actually turn out OK. I only remove the actual dead, lying on the bottom babies.

 

[sugartooth]

Thanks. It breaks my heart to see them, I put in so much effort to keep them this long only to see them like this because of a stinking GFI blow.

 

[sugartooth]

Well, it seems like one of them recovered overnight. The other two are just floating.
It just so happens to be the biggest one that survived too.

 

[sugartooth]

It's a good day! Even WITH flatworms!

It's a good day! Even WITH flatworms!

YAY!!!!!!!:bounce1: :bounce2: :celeb1:

Two seahorse babies recovered from floating!!!!! They were floating side up after the GFCI blew and I was so heartbroken.
Here they are!! The second baby was kind of far, so it came up dark.







:celeb3:

 

[petoonia]

They are so cute!!!

Glad to hear their ok!

 

[Susied]

How are they doing? If a seahorse baby is 4 weeks old it is considerably stronger than the ones who died off in the first week. If they can still get to food they should work through the floating problem. Good luck.

 

[sugartooth]

Thanks for asking, they are doing great!
Both have fully recovered and are eating baby brine shrimp.
I just don't know when they are supposed to transition to mysis?
Do they have to go through a tigger pod stage?

 

[Susied]

you can move them to cyclopeeze at this point and mix it with enriched frozen bbs. The easiest way to train is to put the frozen in at the time they are used to being fed and wait 30 minutes or so after that to add any live. Some may not switch but the ones who do will grow fast.

 

[sugartooth]

Thanks for the tip!
I will give it a try....where do you buy frozen bbs, or who makes it?

 

[sloshesv]

Wow, that is great news.I was going to suggest feeding them to the other fish or critters you might have. You know, circle of life stuff. I'm glad I kept my fat yapper shut.