Hospital Tank for BEAT UP Green Sev

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Guys,

I just set up and emergency hospital tank for my 5" Green Severum. I filled it with tank water from my bigger tank and added a dose of Melafix to help heal his wounds. He got pretty beat up by a JD who now is the solo resident of my 55G tank.

Should I do anything else to help heal this guy? Any advice on nursing fish back to health? He is pretty roughed up and I've never done this before.
 
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Do I need to raise the water temp? Should I add substrate from my main tank? The water is looking cloudy this morning. Amonia is creeping up now. It was at zero when i set it up yesterday. Is it cloudy from the melafix?
 
The quarantine tank is not cycled if the ammonia is creeping up. Bringing water from the original tank was good so that the sev doesn't have any pH shock or anything like that, but the actual bacteria live in the filter, on the glass, in the substrate, etc. You can either bring over a bunch of stuff from the original tank and try to get enough to have both tanks fine with bacteria, or keep it un-cycled and simply do water changes daily, or possibly every other day. Keep in mind that any medication you use will need to be adjusted with the water changes. On the other hand, if you cycle the tank, some medicines might kill all the bacteria anyway.

As far as treatment, you can try Melafix, Pimafix, or Stress-Coat that I can think of (I don't suggest mixing medicines typically). In addition to that, he may have some wounds that could benefit from some actual direct care. If he has large, open wounds, you may have to give him anesthetic in the form of cloves to knock him out, then pull him and treat with neosporin. If you decide to do that, read up on the procedure first to reduce the amount of stress this puts on him and to make sure you give the correct dose of cloves to knock him out.

Most of the time, the best thing you can do is give him time to recover on his own in a place where he will be left alone and not be stressed out by everything else around him.
 
I feel bad..have a soft spot for sevs..they can just be such wimps and docile...which is why I love em tho. But they often ge beaten up...just guve gun sine time, like said above just move over a filter or some stuff to his tank. Goona keep happening tho if you put em back together in the same situation
 
If you have melafix add it. If not use maracyn. Temp should be stable, I'd leave it at the current temp of the main tank. Make sure the hospital tank is cycled. Try to keep the water as clean as possible. Do light water changes every other day or so. Don't worry about feeding the fish for a few days unless it accepts it.
 
Great, thanks everyone. My plan is to nurse the Sev back to health then either rehome the JD or the Sev. Definitely can't put them both back in the main tank. I brought some substrate from the main tank into the hospital tank (tied it up in some panty hose) and also placed a portion of the media filter from the main tank in the hospital tank's filter.

Guess I need to just keep up with water changes and test ammonia often. Thanks again.
 
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