HITH Question

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sbrady5pts

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Over the past few years my cichlids have been coming down with HITH as they reach mature size. My water is Ammonia & Nitrate free and I keep Nitrites under 35PPM, i do biweekly 40% WC's and drastically over filter my tanks. I only feed my fish NLS & Krill, never feeders...

What else can I do? Can it be something in my tap water? I do not relaly add any water treatments except salt
 
I probably have them confused. It is always festae. Based on my research I am noticiing that the B1 vitamin is very important. has anyone made their own food loaded with Vitamin B1? In previous fish/years I tried to treat the food with B1 before feeding the fish but they would be reluctant to eat it
 
NLS has more than enough vitamins in it... I've "cured" HITH just by feeding NLS and doing water changes. I'd start looking to other causes...
Let's see, do you use carbon by chance?


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I was not using carbon, and actually just added a bag, Could that cause the hith? I have a huge Sump with a ton of bio balls and a few polishing pads. I do not know if my water is hard or not, could that also be a cause?
 
sbrady5pts said:
I was not using carbon, and actually just added a bag, Could that cause the hith? I have a huge Sump with a ton of bio balls and a few polishing pads. I do not know if my water is hard or not, could that also be a cause?
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I've never seen a conclusive study as to what exactly causes HITH. Seems to be a variety of factors, carbon use seems to occasionally come up so I thought I'd ask. What species of fish are you keeping exactly?


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As an additional question, could adding additional polishing pads to the sump filter damage the bio load? I added new polishing pads to the top of the sump before it hits the bio balls. Could this have hurt my fish?
 
sbrady5pts said:
Over the past few years my cichlids have been coming down with HITH as they reach mature size. My water is Ammonia & Nitrate free and I keep Nitrites under 35PPM, i do biweekly 40% WC's and drastically over filter my tanks. I only feed my fish NLS & Krill, never feeders...

What else can I do? Can it be something in my tap water? I do not relaly add any water treatments except salt
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You say your tank is AMMONIA AND NITRATE FREE AND NITRITE IS 35PPM??? THATS TOXIC!!!! ANY AMOUNT OF NITRITES ARE TOXIC. I THINK U MAY HAVE MEANT NITRATES ARE 35PPM AND NITRITES ARE 0. IF NOT THERES UR PROBLEM

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