Another HITH thread...

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elevatethis

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Alright, appearantly an AC110, Eheim 2217, and 50% weekly water changes can't keep up with 1 6" oscar, 2 5" sevs, and one small firemouth in a 75 gallon tank....

My oscar has two small sores on the side of his head, next to the jaw and just below the eye.

I turned the tank up to 82 and added a few tablespoons of salt.

I don't get it...I feel like I've been doing everything right. I feed them a mix of Hikari Cichlid Gold and Cichlid Bio-Gold, which is pretty good food I thought...

Nitrates are ok, never been above 20ppm right before a water change...

Any insight?
 
Well you are WAY overstocked imo. When those fish are full grown you will be doing 50% waterchanges every 2 days. I would lose the oscar or the sevs. Preferable the sevs cause I like oscars. You are feeding great food and the nitrates aren't bad but I would double the water changes and keep em 50% twice a week from now on if you plan on keeping all those fish. My oscar tank is loaded imo and I have about the same filtration . Penguin 350 and fluval 403 both full of biomax. My nitrates get to 20ppm b4 waterchanges and I don't feed much and change 60-75% of the water every 4 days.

good luck.
 
I tend to disagree with being overstocked. Especially considering that they are still juveniles. I have seen many tanks that size with much more fish in them and not have a HITH problem. Many long time MFK members and Mods. I would look to another source. I am no expert on HITH. I would try better filtration.
I for one have a 125 with 3 times that many large SA/CA. I run an XP4 and XP3 on it, with weekly water changes of 30-50 percent, and don't ever have a water parameter problem.

 
After a couple days with salt and a slight temperature increase, the sores appear to not be getting any worse.

I also removed carbon from the AC...I never had carbon in the 2217 to begin with.
 
elevatethis;874326; said:
Alright, appearantly an AC110, Eheim 2217, and 50% weekly water changes can't keep up with 1 6" oscar, 2 5" sevs, and one small firemouth in a 75 gallon tank....

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Nitrates are ok, never been above 20ppm right before a water change...

Any insight?
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I disagree, your cleaning regime/filteration seem to be able to handle your bioload quite well. I suspect the HITH is unrelated to your water cleanliness.
 
I know that people have discussed whether or not carbon has an effect...

Could it be stress? No nipped fins or anything like that. Feeding time is typical for hungry cichlids, but no one fish dominates the tank during that time. I even feed some spirulina pellets to the sevs that the oscar doesn't even go after.
 
Canuck75;874345; said:
Well you are WAY overstocked imo. When those fish are full grown you will be doing 50% waterchanges every 2 days. I would lose the oscar or the sevs. Preferable the sevs cause I like oscars. You are feeding great food and the nitrates aren't bad but I would double the water changes and keep em 50% twice a week from now on if you plan on keeping all those fish. My oscar tank is loaded imo and I have about the same filtration . Penguin 350 and fluval 403 both full of biomax. My nitrates get to 20ppm b4 waterchanges and I don't feed much and change 60-75% of the water every 4 days.

good luck.
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no yur not overstocked:) . Cunuck did yu read that theyre still yung?
 
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