Aww Crap

[Ang]

My Oscar has HITH. I've had him for 3 1/2 years with perfect skin, no hith, no sickness.

I noticed a hole in the middle of his forhead.

I'm just venting mostly.

I do weekly water changes, alternating cleaning my filters.
I feed a good diet. Hikari with vita-chem and krill.


So now, i've:
-added a grounding probe since i found 7 V of stray current in the tank. Its now at only 3 millivolts. So thats taken care of.
-ordered crickets,superworms,caterpillars and spirulina pellets
-ordered Metronidazole
-took out all the large rocks in the tank to eliminate any pockets of anaerobic bacteria
-and i'm stepping up my water changes.

This better go away. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[ShipOfFools37]

Ah I'm sorry to hear that! Best of luck to you and your O !!

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

good luck with that...I've dealt with it before with a chocolate cichlid and it was a pita. used metro and it seemed to stop the progression...there were no clear reasons why it could've developed other than possible stress from tankmates

 

[Ang]

thanks.

yeah, i have no idea what started it. Freakin oscars. lol

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

how big was it when you got it?

 

[djdlemma]

That sucks!!! Sounds like you are on the right track to get him healed. Good luck!!

 

[Dmaan.]

don't worry about it.
pretty common thing at an older age.
i've never seen a really old oscar with out a bit of a whole.
as long as his head isn'tl ike melting away i wouldn't worry about it lol.

 

[HardCandy]

Kudos on the Spirulina Pellets. that will greatly help. Also, get some live nightcrawlers for him too.

 

[Japtastic]

Just out of interest do you use carbon in your filters?

 

[japes]

Do you have a basic testing kit?