HITH on steroids? (Warning graphic photos!!!)

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Piranha
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I thought it was just HITH at first spotted the first pit a few weeks ago but didn't think nothing of it since fish was feeding and behaving just fine. But a few days ago I noticed that it has stopped feeding and breathing heavily. Upon inspection I noticed that his left side of face was swollen with scales behind the gills area were sticking up and covered with huge pits(picture). At I tried adding salt and using Jungle's parasite clear but guess it was too late for any type of treatment.


Anyone with any idea on what this could be and how to go about treating it? I would like to find out whatever it is since Midas in my avatar shares the same tank.


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HITH is usually a result from bad water quality (especially long periods of bad water quality), I would do a 30-50% water change immediately. Next, I would add 1 tablespoon of aquarium salt per 5 gallons of water.
 
That isnt even bad, I have a german blue ram, that got that overnight randomly, then after I treated with salt and wamer temperature, it sprouted out insane amounts of fuzz, then I bought fungus remover and a hith cure, tried the hith cure, didnt get better just got worse, then tried to fungus clear and it also did nothing, I lost the fish :(. the weird part is the water is completely fine, 0 nitrates. The only reason Ive found for it is I just had put some new carbon in the filter.
 
0 nitrite and amonia, that goes without saying. I do 3x water changes on my ram tank weekly because they are very sensitive to nitrates. I also hand feed them to prevent uneaten food. They spawned regularly, ate readily, and sported beautiful colors. The fish were perfectly healthy, not even sure it was HITH because of the fuzz that grew from it when I medicated for HITH.
 
Have a look into septicemia, a possibility? I fought a horrible round of septicemia I got a while back from feeding live blackworms. Oxolinic acid is the only effective thing I found to treat it. Powerful stuff though and will whipe out your bio in the process.
 
Don't think it was that, the other Ram is fine, It looked like a serious hole in the head disease that popped over night, that continued to get worst, going under the eye, and then bam all of a sudden white fuzz sprouted out from the wounds.
 
I don't think anyone knows for sure what causes it. My .02 is dirty water.
 
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