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hi there, ok where to start, i really need help. i have no idea what is going on with my green severum who is about 7 inches long & at least 7 years old. he is curently alone in a 30 gal hospital tank as this all started with a bad case of ick about 3 months ago and then turned into a battle of a secondary infection which i treated with different meds; (api general cure, aquadene general aid, then maracyn- two) none of which seemed to help my poor severum blacky..... blacky stopped eating for about a month then as a last resort i tryed medicating his food with kent garlic xtreme, which i was told might attract him to eat. finally i gave up and stopped medicating him as i did not know what to treat him for. i was told it was most likely an internal parisite. after i stoped medicating him about 2 weeks later he began to eat, and started looking better except for a tumor like red bump on his back fin, he did not look in pain so since he started eating i decided not to buy any more meds as i do not know what it was. so its been a month now and he eats every day but then yeasterday i came in & he has a worm like pink thing coming out of his pooper, my first thought was omg its his intestines or a tapework. i have no idea what this is. i asked my pet store and showed a pic & they told me they have never seen this on a tropical fish but told me they have seen somthing like this but on the shark they have in the store: the shark ate something bad and actuly blew its stomach out to get rid of it and then his stomach sucked back in a couple of days later and all was well.......... please help, i don't want my blacky to die... i dont know what to do.
i do water changes once a week 25%
my ph level is between 7.8- 8.0
nitrates about 10
ammonia- 0
i would post a pic if somebody can tell me how.
thank you
i do water changes once a week 25%
my ph level is between 7.8- 8.0
nitrates about 10
ammonia- 0
i would post a pic if somebody can tell me how.
thank you