HITH lATERAL LINE DISEASE IN CICHLA

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been a good read this thread!,

any case of HITH in my experience is usually fixed by a change in diet which includes the right nutrients/supplements. Here in AUS the biggest problem is people feed nothing but live fish and generally all these cichla have HITH where as you compare to cichla on a healthy mix of pellets/prawns/vitamins never have an issue no matter the filtration differences. This is just the way i see it and my 2 cents :)
 
HULON said:
OK GUYS lets talk about it seriously and try and fix it!!!My fish are pretty large i have 4 diff species in 1 tank and i had never experienced this until My Beautiful Occell started with it sometime last year the other fish including a wild peru Oscar don't have a trace and yet she persists with it I took a few pics lets see where this goes LOL!!!!By the way all eat pellet and tilapia .....

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I used to think that it was caused by water quality or filtration but after a recent experience I realized that may not always be the case. Correct me if I'm wrong but If I'm not mistaken ocells come from blackwater environments. Blackwater environments don't contain the parasite that causes hith.

I have some crenicichla that developed hith and I was doing multiple wc's a week, the tank was very lightly stocked, and they were being lightly fed. After some help from another member, and some research I determined it to be my ph and started using discus buffer and peat to treat my water and the hith cleared completely. So imo hith is sometimes caused by blackwater fish being sensitive to non blackwater conditions.... it may not show up right away but it's only a matter of time imo.
 
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isde02 said:
I used to think that it was caused by water quality or filtration but after a recent experience I realized that may not always be the case. Correct me if I'm wrong but If I'm not mistaken ocells come from blackwater environments. Blackwater environments don't contain the parasite that causes hith.

I have some crenicichla that developed hith and I was doing multiple wc's a week, the tank was very lightly stocked, and they were being lightly fed. After some help from another member, and some research I determined it to be my ph and started using discus buffer and peat to treat my water and the hith cleared completely. So imo hith is sometimes caused by blackwater fish being sensitive to non blackwater conditions.... it may not show up right away but it's only a matter of time imo.
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I originally thought it was diet and poor water quality (filtration) but like you, I linked it to pH. Unfortunately, I got the peat in too late and was unable to clear the HITH on my brokos.
Thanks for sharing the positive result.
 
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Bump. Any update from the OG guys?
 
Good stuff to know.
 
I read through the first few pages - and the discussion is firmly focused on nutrition and water quality (stress) which is normally is when it comes to Peacockbass and HITH and any other species for that matter.

I think that one stress that is often overlooked in an aquarium fishes life is the stocking densities that we keep them at. Modern technologies in filtration allow us to keep fish at such crazy high stocking densities. Even a comparatively large tank (400 + gallons) with 5 or more bass. This is constant stress for a fish, even if we think it isn't. Having other fish competing for space every second of every day would cause a fish some level of stress. This is just another stress to consider and a possible causal factor.

I have also never seen any treatment completely clear HITH - only stop the spread of the pits, once the pits are formed they will scar. I have 5 (started with 10x 2" Juvies, slowly dwindled numbers down by selling them) Monoculus 12-16" in my 450. In reality moving forward I will probably reduce this down even further to 3. My filtration and WC regime could easily support much more than this.
 
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you have 12 fish 16" long in a 450. That's way too many . I would think 4or 5 at the most. Just my thoughts. I'm no expert. 3 would be way better. I agree people over stock their tanks.
 
All PBass ? Or did I read it wrong? Oops I did read it wrong. you have five . LOL. Soo sorry. I agree with you 100%.
 
Yes, sorry there are 5. Started with 10x 2" Juvies and started thinning out the numbers once the biggest started hitting 12".
 
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