Something wrong with my Green Severum. Any ideas? I added salt and bumped up the heat to 85°. He is the only fish in the tank with these symptoms.
Sick Severum.
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Cute little guy! I love sevs. I've got a big 4yr/old green. Was this fish a new addition or were new additions added to this tank? I loos like ich from the pics. I'd probably work the salt back and keep the heat, aeration and water changes up.
Agreed with ich, keep the salt up to one tablespoon per 5 gallons and the heat around 80-82 min for two weeks after symptoms disappear. Do regular water changes with gravel vacuuming.
Good news! Just keep treating for a little while longer. Ich doesn't just live on fish it lives in the substrate as eggs and a free swimming larvae that you can't see, then the cyst, then free swimming adult which you can't see which lays eggs in the gravel. It takes up to two weeks to kill them all.
In the diagram below the tomite is the eggs in the gravel, the theront is the first free swimming stage, the trophonts are the cysts and the tomont is the second free swimming stage. The second diagram shows how long each stage lasts at that temperature.
(I really need to make one of these that is all in one)
In the diagram below the tomite is the eggs in the gravel, the theront is the first free swimming stage, the trophonts are the cysts and the tomont is the second free swimming stage. The second diagram shows how long each stage lasts at that temperature.
(I really need to make one of these that is all in one)
