Man that is one bright oscar. What do you feed him? I can't get the orange to "shine" on Gulp like your big boy.
I hope the HITH is already cured.tim_123 said:i have an orange parrot fish that has hole in the head
has hole have slowed down and are not geting any bigger
i try heaps of things and every one said somthing different
i am still try to heal him and it has been 3 months i think
it is geting better,it is just the nitrates are to high and i don't over feed i do an 50% water change every 2 days ,i am 100%
sure he would be cured because nitrates are giving him 2nd infections of the disease.
this is what i tryed metro 400mg in an 20 litre tank every 2 days for 3 treatments i did 2 teatments after an week and when you treat the metro must do an 50% water change.
after you have treated the metro do another 50% change and use melafix until it heals and feed him food with heaps of vit c and raise the temperture to 27 a little salt will help.
it will take around 2 months to heal to normal just keep trying like i am and you will .good luck the fish is not in any pain with hole in the head so thats an good thing.
tim
Number one HITH cure (IMHO), this care is based on aSquirrelOsO said:im getting back into the cichlid craze again after 5 long years of being cichlidless. now im very afraid of hith disease, ive had cichlids with it before and it was horrible. no one died from it but it left them scarred and well just plain ugly. my plan is to keep the water very clean by doing once a month water changes of 50 percent, is this a bad idea? or is this the only way to prevent this disease? i keep reading there is no cure but one site i came across said that the prescription drug flagyl may work. i used to have flagyl in the house when my cats came down with giardia but i wonder how this drug could be given? mine was in a pill form, now i no oscars dont take pills lol
is there any way to prevent this disease from happening in the first place?