hi. well, i hope someone can give me some info. first off, my digital camera broke and havent gotten the time to get a new one, so i cant post any pictures. But, i am going to try my best and give a detailed verbal description about the current situation.
Tank Water Info:
i start off with my water parameters; the ph level is about 6.8-7.0, and the nitrate and ammonia checked out ok and water temperature is about 81-83 degree. On the side note, I change about 30% percent of the tank water weekly and that includes vacuuming it. and i have already added a small amount of salt to my tank as a precaution (and yes all the fish in the tank, including the severum could tolerate the salt because i have treated the fish with salt in the past because of ich).
The Sick Fish Description:
all the fish seem perfectly fine. except for this green severum. it has really bad torn up fins but it think is from the female severum in the tank when they tried to do their mating thing. so, that rules out fin rot, i hope at least. it also has some sort of whitish spots covering its fin and a bit on the body, which i know for sure is not ich because i dealt with ich before. And the white spot is a bit bigger than those white spot from ich and its the only fish in the tank with it. but the biggest probelm is the fish anus/vent area (including is anus and its male sex tube) is very reddish and swollen. It doesnt look like prolapse anus, or camallanus because i acutally search this forums and google those two problem and it doesnt look like any of them.
Color of the Sick Severum Poo:
as for its poo, the last time i checked, its color is the normal color brownish, nothing white. But, it doesnt look thick because everytime i see it poop it just disintegrate into the water the second it exit its anus. is that healthy? because it doesnt look like the poo of the health female severum in the tank.
The Sick Fish Habits:
but, the fish spends most its time at the top of the tank next to the filter outlet. it would once in a while come down and chase the female severum in the tank a bit, but at the end goes back up. i dont think is the lack of oxygen in the tank making this severum staying at the time most of its time because the other fish seem perfectly happy and fine.
The Fish Normal Diet:
as for the fish diet, i normally feed them floating pellet (their staple food source), algae weafers (meant for my pleco but the other fishes likes them too), blood worms (once a week), brine shrimp (once a week), freeze dry krill (once a week), and de-shelled green peas (once a week). the green severum seem to be eating but not as much as it usually does.
Sick Fish Size:
the sick green severum size is about 8-9 inches from head to the tip of its tail.
I hope i gave a good enough description on my severum that someone can give me some idea of what is wrong with it. any idea/tip is apprieated. Should i isolate him or its too late and i should just put him out of its misery. because its anus area doesn't look too good. and i think it might have made him infertile becase the last two batches of eggs were all unfertile, while the mutli-spawing before were all succeful.
thanks in adavance.
Tank Water Info:
i start off with my water parameters; the ph level is about 6.8-7.0, and the nitrate and ammonia checked out ok and water temperature is about 81-83 degree. On the side note, I change about 30% percent of the tank water weekly and that includes vacuuming it. and i have already added a small amount of salt to my tank as a precaution (and yes all the fish in the tank, including the severum could tolerate the salt because i have treated the fish with salt in the past because of ich).
The Sick Fish Description:
all the fish seem perfectly fine. except for this green severum. it has really bad torn up fins but it think is from the female severum in the tank when they tried to do their mating thing. so, that rules out fin rot, i hope at least. it also has some sort of whitish spots covering its fin and a bit on the body, which i know for sure is not ich because i dealt with ich before. And the white spot is a bit bigger than those white spot from ich and its the only fish in the tank with it. but the biggest probelm is the fish anus/vent area (including is anus and its male sex tube) is very reddish and swollen. It doesnt look like prolapse anus, or camallanus because i acutally search this forums and google those two problem and it doesnt look like any of them.
Color of the Sick Severum Poo:
as for its poo, the last time i checked, its color is the normal color brownish, nothing white. But, it doesnt look thick because everytime i see it poop it just disintegrate into the water the second it exit its anus. is that healthy? because it doesnt look like the poo of the health female severum in the tank.
The Sick Fish Habits:
but, the fish spends most its time at the top of the tank next to the filter outlet. it would once in a while come down and chase the female severum in the tank a bit, but at the end goes back up. i dont think is the lack of oxygen in the tank making this severum staying at the time most of its time because the other fish seem perfectly happy and fine.
The Fish Normal Diet:
as for the fish diet, i normally feed them floating pellet (their staple food source), algae weafers (meant for my pleco but the other fishes likes them too), blood worms (once a week), brine shrimp (once a week), freeze dry krill (once a week), and de-shelled green peas (once a week). the green severum seem to be eating but not as much as it usually does.
Sick Fish Size:
the sick green severum size is about 8-9 inches from head to the tip of its tail.
I hope i gave a good enough description on my severum that someone can give me some idea of what is wrong with it. any idea/tip is apprieated. Should i isolate him or its too late and i should just put him out of its misery. because its anus area doesn't look too good. and i think it might have made him infertile becase the last two batches of eggs were all unfertile, while the mutli-spawing before were all succeful.
thanks in adavance.
