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Miguel said:
Beyond the advice already given above, you could try, if they are eating, to soak the pellets in a 3% Epsom Salt solution. This means a table spoon of Epsom salt in a half litre of water.

With the soaked pelletes, the epsom solution stays in the gut and generally works wonders.
Do it for 10 straight days....
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This will help with the IPs. Good suggestion Miguel.
 
Originally Posted by GeriJo
Maybe it depends on your tap/tank water.... but from my experience salt has not done a thing when compared to mela and pima in my tanks. The tablets and powders have never seemed to do well for me either, but the liquids seem to work wonders. Even with metro if I want it to work I have to dissolve it in a container of distilled water first and then add it to the tank.

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Do you have very hard water?
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It's not as hard as where I use to live but I would think it is slightly harder than most.

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Finally got all the photos to download to my phone...

When you said eye, I was thinking more like directly on the eye or touching it, but given the placement it looks to me more like hole in the head with a secondary infection causing the white appearance.

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Never had any previous holes. In fact it started as white head looking zits. That burst open. Gonna see how he's doing after the treatment. Swims fine. Can tell he's stressed but I'm assimg it's from how he's feeling


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The placement really just screams HITH to me, I see alot of cases of it in my surrounding area. That said, there are some parasites that can cause the type of "zit popping" you described and if we're thinking you already have an internal parasite problem it may very well be the same type of parasite externally. Round worms for instance can attack both internally and externally.

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I appreciate the help. Hopefully these treatments will help get rid of it. I read online that an Epson salt dip for the fish may help too? I've honestly never heard of it before but I've researched how to properly do it. Does anyone think that that could help in conjunction with the medicated tank?


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An epsom salt dip is very effective but very stressful on the fish if you want to do it go ahead. Don't leave the fish in it longer than 15-20 mins max. Monitor the fish the whole time and if it goes belly up or shows sings of sever distress remove to clean water immediatly.
 
Thank you. I think I will try it tomorrow evening once I do the secondary water change and GC treatment to the tank. This forum is pretty awesome glad I found it you guys are helping a lot.


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Thanks, see how the fish is tomorrow if it's showing signs of improvement hold off on the dip.
 
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