hole in the head please help

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they get a type of lateral line erosion that can present on the head and also on the rest of the body. this is usually due to a nutritional deficiency and/or water quality issue. the best way to treat (and they do recover quite well) is by increasing water changes...do larger volume changes and do them more frequently (try once a week at least, more if you can). along with this, you should try to work some vegetable matter into their diet, i have found that algae wafer work great for this.
this combination of treatment has worked whenever i've had lungfishes with these issues. hope that helps and good luck--
--solomon

PS-- what do you feed the fish now?
 
Yes water change and veggies works. Mine would eat carrots, corns, green peace and algae wafer. It help decrease the size of the lateral line holes and the some holes on the head area. My smaller aussie lungfish is still training to accept veggie and it got lots of holes on the head. It will decrease once it started to eat veggie.
 
thanks i have been doing weekly water changes but will do more volume. I will start feeding more veg I have been feeding just market shrimp for last couple months before that I was feeding feeders and market shrimp. So no veggies. I will start what would be the best to start with first? algae wafers?
 
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thanks i have been doing weekly water changes but will do more volume. I will start feeding more veg I have been feeding just market shrimp for last couple months before that I was feeding feeders and market shrimp. So no veggies. I will start what would be the best to start with first? algae wafers?
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I suggest for the diet 70% for the meaty foods and 30% for the veggies. Not too much veggies or it won't get the protein that it needs.
 
your lungfish probably has plenty of meat in the diet already, so i would emphasize the veg material for a bit and keep equal or lesser amounts of the meaty foods. your fish will not starve to death or develop a deficiency from lower values of meaty foods for now. offer up the veggie material first so you make sure he eats it...then offer the other foods to fill out the food ration. good luck--
--solomon
 
feeding the channeled lung some veg andhaving more water change really help!
mine is recovering; seeing the channels on its head narrowing is just great and relieving.
 
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