It's been a bad month.

I woke up yesterday morning and was feeding my seahorse via turkey baster, as usual. How seahorses feed is by sucking up and snapping their prey -- they have an internal muscle inside their snout that acts like a pipette that triggers the prey. She was unable to activate the trigger, even though she tried desperately to eat. She was simply nodding her head at the mysis.

It will only be two days before she starves.

There are only a couple possibilities here. One is parasites and there's nothing I can do. The second, which I'm hoping for, is a mechanical problem. The seahorse must have accidentally consumed a small piece of shell or rock rubble. The snick will work again then in time.

- Josh

Guest blog post for thereeftank.com

I have a guest blog entry over at The Reef Tank everyone should check out.

It's the ongoing story of my 180 gallon ammonia problems, with the newest updates.

You definitely don't want to miss it.

Click here to read my entry.

You can also see how cloudy the tank became when introducing the new ammonia culture after a near 90% water change that involved running tap water over every beneficial bacterial medium in the filters.

Lot of good blog posts, articles, and pictures at The Reef Tank blog so be sure to check it out!

- Josh
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