Treating HITH with Salt
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I don't think salt will help. HITH is associated with only soft water fish like Geophagus, oscar, gourami, angel, discus and pike ciclid. I have never heard of HITH affecting hard watter fish like African and CA Rift lake cichlids. Adding salt will increase the mineral contents and may worsen HITH.
I used it once on my oscar. It didn't help at all. I would reccomend a ptoduct called "Ick Clear" its' safe for everything so you don't have to worry about dead fish.
i had a midas that had all the outward signs of hith. i assumed it was hith it looked just like any oscar or discus that i have ever seen with hith. it is now gone and all the sores have healed over.
I have seen many Red Devel and Blood Parrot in LFS but have never seen one with HITH. The complete recovery of your Midas apparent HITH may suggest they aren't because HITH is often irreversable; only to stop from getting worse by improving the water quality. So those lesions in your Midas could be scratch marks or injury. If they are indeed HITH, then it sould go into record.
im no expert and i cant say for 100% sure that it was hith but it looked exactly like it. i didnt have a camera when i first got her so i have no pics of what she looked like when i first got her. i doubt they were normal scratches because it took me 9 months to heal them. also it was starting to affect the lateral line.
I'm not up to date - is hith an actual diesease (hexamita) or is it a symptom? In marine fish hith is just a symptom, usually of bad feeding and neglect of water conditions, and is pretty reversible. Is this true.
Either way I find it hard to believe salt is going to help - if it's hexamita, get a hexamita cure. If it's neglect, improve conditions
Either way I find it hard to believe salt is going to help - if it's hexamita, get a hexamita cure. If it's neglect, improve conditions
Actually Wayne, it is both plus dietatry in FW most often. Inadequate diet and polluted water provide a double whammy setting the fish up for opportunistic infection for agents such as hexamita. Cure and recovery require major handling changes, and may or may not require meds.