Question About my green severum

[moogle]

Hi
this is the first time I've ever had a green severum and he is about 1" maybe 1" 1/2 anyways I'm having to feed him alot everyday )he doesn't eat alot but he refuses to eat food that has fallen on the gravel)anyways if I don't I have noticed that he turns white and he seems to stress out alot easier then my other fish.I have all kinds of caves and hiding spots for him, none of the other fish are picking on him all the water readings are normal no temperature changes nobody in the tank is sick or has been either so does anyone know why he does this?Oh not sure if this is some info I need to include or not but I am feeding a variety of foods freeze dried blood worms, flake food, pellets,and baby bites.If anybody has any info on whats up with him I'd really appreciate it.

 

[cohazard]

What are the tankmates and what sizes are they?

When fish are that small, almost any activity from other fish, especially their presence alone, can easily stress them heavily.

Are you able to seperate it and grow it out some in a tank by itself? That would be an ideal situation for such a small sev.

My red sevs have no issue with eating shrimp pellets off the substrate, but they're fairly evenly matched in size with their tank mates.

 

[moogle]

his tank mates are a 5 1/2" pleco a 2" blood parrot and some kind of a 3"mystery gourami everyone gets along fine. The severum likes to sleep by the blood parrot and they seem to school together anyways I'm not getting the impression he is intimadated by the other fish, its a 100 gallon tank by the way.At first I thought maybe he's hypoglaucimic but I don't know if fish even get that he's quite social and curious.I just want to make sure he's not sick.

 

[cohazard]

Have you had it long? Perhaps it's still adjusting?

 

[moogle]

I've had him about 3 weeks now almost 4

 

[Rbishop]

It may not care for the brand of food you are feeding.

 

[jac8724]

my gold severum did the same exact thing until she was about 5" long...but i also switched from ordinary tropical flakes to Omega One Super Color flakes this past year. now she sucks them off the bottom afterwards and fights with the pleco for them. i let alot sink for this reason =)

I dont know if it was the food switch or her just growing up...probably her growing up, because i dont remember the behavior change being so sudden. it only took about a year and a half for my severum to get 8"...so hopefully yours grows up fast and turns into a little piggy tooo...

ive also noticed severums really like water changes. mine lays a batch of eggs every time i change some water out.