fishguy1978
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My green/turquoise sev has the filamentious things just behind the right gill plate and one just below the left. I'm not seeing anything on the other fish. I do see occasional flashing but I frequently.
Parasites?
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fishguy1978
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I tested my water and other than nitrates being a tad hi everything looks good. I don't adjust water parameters. Whatever comes out of the tap is what they get.
The nitrate assay in this test kit is not very good once NO3 concentrations get above about 40 ppm (unless you have a spectrophotometer to quantitate the readout), so your NO3 levels could be 40 ppm, but they could also be 80 ppm or more. If NO3 levels are that high chronically, that could be a stressor for your Severum. Is this a wild fish? The downside of WC is that they harbor all kinds of exotic parasites, which can cause issues in stressed fishes. I'd start doing some serious water changes and see what happens. Good luck.
fishguy1978
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No, this one isn't. I have had this fish for over a year (iirc). I'm going to try a meth blue bath and order a gallon jug of paraguard.
fishguy1978
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Accomplished a 50%ish water change and a 3gal/Meth Blue bath. Dip twice, once at ~20 seconds and once at ~1o seconds as the directions state no more than ~10 seconds. I rinsed the fish off between dips with tank water. I have order prazi and paraguard. Both should arrive tomorrow.
At a guess they look like anchor worms. https://modestfish.com/worms-in-fish-tank/
diflubenzuron Is a product that works on them. You can buy pond type treatment and get more bang for the buck because of the concentration. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IW8YT3A/?tag=wafishbox-20
diflubenzuron Is a product that works on them. You can buy pond type treatment and get more bang for the buck because of the concentration. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IW8YT3A/?tag=wafishbox-20
fishguy1978
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So far I'm not seeing any forked tails.
Is this in the 200 gallon? Thats a lot of tank to have to treat... I usually look for a concentrated form of the medication. I had an issue some years ago in my old 210 gallon that required full treatment to treat all the fish. I lowered water levels and found pond concentration products.
fishguy1978
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Yes, unfortunately. The prazi is a pond concentrate.
fishguy1978
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I don't see any streamers this morning. I saved the MB bath so I may catch him again for another dip.
fishguy1978
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I had to move the turquoise sev out of the 220g because the H.N. would not stop chasing with intent to harm. Choco isn't so sure about the arrangement.
Sorry, I'm having a hard time keeping up with the shorthand. What is a H. N.?
fishguy1978
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Heros Notatus
Ah. I thought it might be Haplochromis nanoserranus, or H. nigrescens, or H. niloticus, or H. nubilis, or H. nyanzae, or H. nyerei, or... Sorry, couldn't resist...
fishguy1978
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Ah. I thought it might be Haplochromis nanoserranus, or H. nigrescens, or H. niloticus, or H. nubilis, or H. nyanzae, or H. nyerei, or... Sorry, couldn't resist...
Now I'm going to have to go look up all those species to see what you were thinking.
https://www.fishbase.se/identification/SpeciesList.php?genus=Haplochromis
African maternal mouthbrooders, with many representatives from Lake Victoria. Variations on a theme, with a body plan that tends to look like this-
fishguy1978
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Wow, I need more fish tanks
Do it! lolWow, I need more fish tanks
fishguy1978
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The Turquoise sev is healing up. With the move into the 55g I am able to more closely observe and the gill plates are healing. I have also noticed that the upper lip looks injured. The gold and turquoise were lip locking quite a bit so I think the 2 will be better off seperated.