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Severums: These Are Beautiful Fish Of The C
SEVERUMS:
These are beautiful fish of the cichlid family. In the wild they are a greenish colour but you can also purchase these in gold. I believe there is another colour but can't say I have ever seen any other but green and gold.
I had three gold Severums and one green. Unfortunately I lost them all last year due to a faulty heater. Until then I had the three gold ones for seven years, the green one I introduced a little later.
These fish can grow to about six or seven inches, about the size of my hand, so a large tank is essential. They like little hiding places so the tank needs to be furnished with bogwood, broken flower pots or similar, and plants in pots (or they will uproot them!) on a gravel base.
Very beautiful fish, roundish in shape with floaty fins and tail. Large faces, the iris of the eye is red and their mouths are small.
They feed on flaked food or cichlid gold, and they are very partial to a little bloodworm.
They are not quite as "messy" as Oscars but will re-arrange their own tanks!
If you want to mix Severums with other fish, they should be cichlids or you will be left once more with just Severums (They will eat them!). Gourami are a good choice, mine accepted one, though the largest Severum chased it around a lot initially! Keep checking for white spot if you introduce other fish, also one of mine had fin rot which luckily was cured with treatment. A pleco will be fine as an addition to the tank to help clean it.
These are "friendly" little creatures and are very curious when you approach the tank, lining up to take a look at you, or to eat the food they think you will give them! They can also be a little shy, which is why they need little "hiding" places like broken pots and bogwood. They look quite amusing peeping at you through a hole in the bogwood!!
I did not know. Thank you; but don't blame us! The picture is courtesy of Emily!
I did not submit the picture, I just wrote a review about a type of cichlid, the Severum as per the heading Cichlids (type of fish).
Far prettier fish than the one in the picture, as are Oscars!
Hi there. Are you aware that the photograph used in your review is that of a Blood parrot fish? It is in fact a cichlid, but the worst possible example of a cichlid. It is a hybrid cichlid with no bi-nominal nomenclature (scientific name), first created in Taiwan in around 1986. It's parentage is unknown, but most commonly speculated pairings are midas cichlid (amphilophus citrinellus) with red devil cichlid (amphilophus labiatus) and the severum (heros severus).
Because this hybrid cichlid has various anatomical deformities, controversy exists over the ethics of creating of the blood parrot. Cichlid enthusiasts have called for their removal from the market and organised boycotts against pet stores that sell them.
The blood parrot is the Frankenstein's monster of the fish world.
I have been keeping Malawi cichlids for about 3 years with some success, after an unsuccessful attempt in keeping a saltwater marine aquarium with invertebrates.
How come your review is expert!?!
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I Have 2 Tiger Oscar Cichlid Fish. They Are Great
I have 2 Tiger Oscar Cichlid fish. They are great fish, and they have a definite personality and recognize you after a short time. They are VERY messy (most Cichlid's are), and they need a fairly powerful filter. When they eat, sometimes food comes out of their gills. When they are fully grown, one's filter should be a canister filter, because any filter that hangs on the tank will not have the umph necessary to clean the water quickly enough. They grow up to 30cm long, but as I have found with all of the fish I have owned, they will grow to fit the tank. Because they are so messy, I have a Plecostomus (Pleco) to help with the tank cleaning, so I don't have to change the water so often. I do change the water about every 4 to 6 weeks though.
Although they are messy and a lot of work, they are equally fun. You just can't help getting attached to them when they start recognizing you and stop what they're doing and swim right up to you!!
Oscars are cichlids and the piranha is related to neon tetras (characin).Can you imagine an oscar with piranha teeth? i wouldnt put my hand in.I would reccommend using melafix treatment as a preventive measure and treatment against finrot,cotton wool growths, any white bacterial infections.Melafix is natural and is from melaleuca.Smells strong and is a natural remedy treated over a week or so then a 25% water change is reccommended.Good luck with ur tank.
Oh, you mean like an ice cream bar or a popsicle? Well, that would be once crazy Oscar; not that they aren't already crazy enough!
Umm, yeah. This one was a fancy "ice block". It was on a stick, but it had ice cream chocolate and assorted lollies and chocolate covering on it. Not good for fishes. Imagine an Oscar on a sugar hypo eh?
Pardon my stupid ignorant American-ness, but what is an ice block? I don't think it is a block of frozen water because that wouldn't foul up the water at all, so I am greatly confused.
I was over at a mates house once, and he has a 3 metre tank. It had 6 Oscars and 4 Red Claws in it. They all died one by one, then he eventually sold the Red Claws. But anyhow... As I said, I was over there and was helping him feed the Oscar, and I was at the time eating an ice-block; the Oscar jumped out and grabbed the stick and ate some of the ice block. We took a lot of water out so the water wouldn't foul too badly. It was funny.
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