6" Red Severum with fungus/fin rot; how to tackle this?

iljadej

iljadej

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Hey all,

I bought a 6" red severum the other day and introduced him into my 120g tank. I noticed that my other 7" rockteil severum was kind of picking on him but nothing too serious. Well, by evening of next day, the new red severum was basically completely vertical in the tank and his fins looks awful. My water parameters are perfect so I am assuming that the stress due to the move and the other severum picking on him brought on whatever infection he has. I am assuming its a fungus/fin rot issue. Today will be my second day of treating him with a combination of maracyn 1 + maracyn 2 in a 20g hospital tank. Im wondering, if i dont see improvement, how else should i approach the problem? I read somewhere that bathing the fish in methylene blue for a couple of hours and then taking them out would literally wipe out the issue. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Clean water! Always the first answer. You claim your water is perfect yet you post no values or how tested. A good mulitpurpose antibacterial and antifungal will help. All new fish should automatically be qt'd for 4 weeks.
 
I had a flame angel with fun rot. 24 hours after treating Melafix, lil guy look waaaay better! Thought I was gonna lose him! He was white! Scared me half to death! Happened out of nowhere in like 48 hours too.

Anyway - huge water change then treat melafix. :)


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He's been in a qt'd tank now for 3 days. Ill continue with the maracyn 1 and maracyn 2 combo and 50% water changes each day. I think i will also add melafix into the combination as well as i read that the combination of the three doesnt seem to have any detrimental effects. I might also try a methylene blue medicated bath if i dont see any improvement by friday night. Thanks, i will keep you posted.
 
I'd put money on the 7" sev for the damage..looks more like aggression issues not fin rot. you'll want to keep an eye on that after the QT.

btw, I've healed many damaged fins with simple, clean, water..
 
That's a problem with aggression if it was vertical. I don't think adding the fish was a good idea.
 
Since the fin rays are completely exposed in parts of the fin and there is a white covering at the end of the fins, I diagnosed it as not being completely due to aggression. Either way, if the fish heals up, I will add him to the 90g as opposed to the 120g as my 90 is more of a community tank than the 120. Thanks for the replies.
 
good plan ;)
 
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