About a week ago, my flowerhorn hit his head against the side of the tank, and it was mostly healed up, but today he hit his head again, and there is kind of a white mark where he hit it. Why do you think he keeps hitting his head? Will he be OK?
Flowerhorn hit head again
- Thread starter CarpCharacin
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I've noticed that mine keeps scratching his kok on the filter output when he goes to grab food. All I've done is add a little bit of melafix to the tank and kept an eye on it. He heals up incredibly fast. He should be fine. If you notice he's hitting his head when he's eating you can drop the water level a bit. That should help. If he's hitting it on decorations or anything I would take them out.
There currently aren't any decorations, it's a bare bottom tank, but I'm planning on adding some sand along with a terra cotta pot for him to hide in.
I've kept them with and without sand and they seem to love it. They always brighten up considerably with white sand.
His head hasn't healed up yet, I can still see the spot where he hit it. It almost looks like a there is a slight indentation where he hit it, but I think it's starting to heal up. I haven't added the sand yet.
Give it some time. As long as no secondary infection sets in it should be totally fine. I'd wait until it heals though to add sand just in case.
I'm not totally sure if there is a secondary infection or not, but I don't think there is, but his head looks lighter around the area he hit.
There are two sponge filters in the tank that he goes under to hide, and I was thinking that he might be scraping his head when he goes under them, so I did a water change, and added the sand and terra cotta pot.
His head is prob just bruised. Add some Aquarium salt to help keep things clean. If he there is no open wound he's prob alright. If there is a wound I would treat right away they HITH and bacteria disease in head pretty easy. Bare bottom is best for FH a pot would be good if you had breeding pair.