Help i think my oscar has hole in the head disease
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First you need to be sure that your Oscar is suffering from the disease. Do you have any pictures that you can post? There are a few things that you can do to prevent HITH; perform weekly water changes, stay away from feeders, and feed quality pellets. What size is your tank and what are the size and numbers of the fish sharing the tank? A little more info will help others to give you proper advice.
i tried to take pictures with my phone and you cant see anything except a blurry fish. he as pitting between his eyes behind is right eye and looks like a couple small ones on his head and it looks like some down his side he is with a JD the JD is around 7 inches and the oscar is probably 5 inches they are in a 30 gal tank for right now.
Do you have a test kit? Give us your water perameters, maintenance schedule. Os are suseptable to HITH and require very clean water a vitamin rich diet and nitrates below 10ppm. 50% weekly water changes, gravel vacuming, filter maintenance and removal of all uneaten food. Keeping the tank clean is 90% of the battle.
Just saw 30 gals too small for your fish also.
Just saw 30 gals too small for your fish also.
I'm going to state the obvious and move on, you need a bigger tank. Ok, how often are you performing water changes and how much water are you replacing every time? I guess all you can do now to help your Oscar is to medicate it for the disease. I have seen HITH stop progressing with regular water changes of 50% and a good diet. The pits will heal but some of the deeper ones will still be a bit visible. If you choose to medicate, you may want to isolate the Oscar in another tank during the process if you have a spare tank available.
As said before you need a much larger tank for the oscar and JD. On medication that works for healing up hole in the head is Metro + it works best as a dip. Add a capful to a 5 gal bucket and let the oscar sit in there for an hour a day.