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Seahorse Pathology

The aim of this album is to compliment the "Disease Pictures" forum. These pictures have been provided to enable a better understanding of common seahorse diseases. For comprehensive information on various ailments, please visit the "Disease and Treatment" forum. For emergency advice, please visit the "Emergency" forum - forum.seahorse.org

Date: 15-03-09 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 9 items (110 items total)
External Gas Bubble Disease

Album: External Gas Bubble Disease

Skin bubbles or cysts can be an indication of several different ailments and can appear as gas filled vesicles or appear solid or cystic in nature.

Date: 15-03-09 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 26 items Views: 88180
Pop Eye

Album: Pop Eye

Also known as exophthalmos or exophthalmia, is more a condition than it is a disease.

Date: 15-03-09 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 16 items Views: 57094
Pouch Emphysema

Album: Pouch Emphysema

The causes of pouch emphysema are highly disputed within the seahorse hobby. More recent research, however, has traced a more likely cause to a biological process known as the hydration of CO2(g) to H2CO3(aq), carbonic acid.

Date: 07-06-03 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 9 items Views: 43025
Skinny/Underweight

Album: Skinny/Underweight

Underweight seahorses have concave depressions of the body between the bony plates that constitute their exoskeleton

Date: 15-03-09 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 8 items Views: 39452
External Parasites

Album: External Parasites

No description

Date: 07-06-03 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 1 item Views: 21670
Flesh Erosion Disease

Album: Flesh Erosion Disease

A lesion is by definition an abnormal change in structure of an organ or part due to injury or disease. The lesions in this thread present themselves as ulcerations, discolorations and nodules.

Date: 15-03-09 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 19 items Views: 70684
Snout Rot

Album: Snout Rot

Snout rot is thought to be a secondary infection, caused by the bacteria Vibrio, which targets the snout of the seahorse.

Date: 15-03-09 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 14 items Views: 53430
Webbing

Album: Webbing

It is difficult to come up with an intro for this category because we are really unsure of what it is. Any horse that produces these symptoms we would love for you to contact Labdoc (Marty), our pathologist and consider a necropsy.

Date: 15-03-09 Owner: Terri Rennie Size: 3 items Views: 19761
Cysts and Tumors

Album: Cysts and Tumors

Lymphocystis is a chronic, usually non-fatal, viral disease caused by Iridovirus. Clinically, fish will present with white dots that are mainly observed on the fins and occasionally the gills.

Date: 15-03-09 Owner: Terri Rennie Size: 5 items Views: 25380
     
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