Are you sure your female Dovii has HITH. Can the holes be scars from physical injury or bacterial infection. HITH is normally associated with soft water fish. Dovii is hard water fish from CA and is not known to be susceptible to HITH.
HITH huge treatment?
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Thanks for the fast reply. Could you send me a link to this metro product you are talking about? Do I just soak their food in this? How often would I need to do this and for how long. They eat frozen shrimp blood worms krill. They also eat massivore which would be easy to soak and have them eat since it is a pellet. Please advise
I think I would like to try your method. Do you recommend soaking their pellets in metro or trying the hex shield mold pellets? Does the hex shield pellets cure HITH? The problem is they are stubborn and I think it would be easier to soak their massivore in something since that is what they love eating
Definitely not physical injury. I have had an umbee with HITH before. It sure looks like it to me. Small pitting all over her face and definitely some lateral line erosion
Is metro+ from hikari a good product? It says it treats hole in the head. Would I be able to soak pellets in this feed the infected fish to cure?
From an old post of mine .......
Almost all fish medications have the potential to be dangerous and/or toxic at high enough dosage rates, or if used excessively. It's been stated by at least one researcher that excessive use of metronidazole can cause organ damage in fish.
In fish, an excessive use of metronidazole can damage kidneys and other internal organs.(Bassleer, 1983)
Also, Metro applied via feed should only be done based on the fishes weight.
Dr. Edward J Noga suggests:
1. Bath
a. Add 19mg/gallon and treat for 3 hours. Repeat every other day for 3 treatments.
2. Prolonged Immersion
a. Add 25mg/gallon and treat once daily for a total of 3 times.
b. Add 95mg/gallon and treat every other day for three days.
3. via feed
25 mg/Kg of body weight/day for 5 to 10 days, or 100 mg/kg of body weight for 3 days. Retreat once if required.
Dr. Edward J. Noga, MS, DVM, is a highly respected professor of aquatic medicine and immunology, that has been published approx 150 times in related papers/journals. His lab at NC State University specializes in the study of infectious diseases of finfish and shellfish. His book, Fish Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment is the go to "health" book for every serious fish keeper and aquatuc DVM on the planet.
Almost all fish medications have the potential to be dangerous and/or toxic at high enough dosage rates, or if used excessively. It's been stated by at least one researcher that excessive use of metronidazole can cause organ damage in fish.
In fish, an excessive use of metronidazole can damage kidneys and other internal organs.(Bassleer, 1983)
Also, Metro applied via feed should only be done based on the fishes weight.
Dr. Edward J Noga suggests:
1. Bath
a. Add 19mg/gallon and treat for 3 hours. Repeat every other day for 3 treatments.
2. Prolonged Immersion
a. Add 25mg/gallon and treat once daily for a total of 3 times.
b. Add 95mg/gallon and treat every other day for three days.
3. via feed
25 mg/Kg of body weight/day for 5 to 10 days, or 100 mg/kg of body weight for 3 days. Retreat once if required.
Dr. Edward J. Noga, MS, DVM, is a highly respected professor of aquatic medicine and immunology, that has been published approx 150 times in related papers/journals. His lab at NC State University specializes in the study of infectious diseases of finfish and shellfish. His book, Fish Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment is the go to "health" book for every serious fish keeper and aquatuc DVM on the planet.
If I'm soaking the pellets in the metro what would be the point of weighing him? The pellet is going to soak up the same amount of metro either way. I'm just wondering how long to soak and how many pellets to use
