My neighbor has a question??

[jfkelley_24]

Hi this is his neighbor and i was wondering if my oscar has HITH???

 

[livebearerfreak]

yup so add aquaium salt and up the tep to 86 degrees and do 50 percent water change once a week

 

[Dovii dude]

Looks bad

 

[balton777]

It looks like HITH. Does your neighbor keep up good water parameters? What does his diet consist of?

 

[jfkelley_24]

He mainly feeds them goldfish like i used to until we found out about the downside of using feeders but he usually sticks to a hikari diet.

 

[balton777]

Have him cut out ALL the feeder fish. Feed only a variety of high quality pellets with occasional frozen or freeze dried treats. Keep up the water params and don't use any carbon in the filters. GL.

 

[FSM]

yup so add aquaium salt and up the tep to 86 degrees and do 50 percent water change once a week

are you sure you aren't thinking of ich?

 

[PoopSmart]

Just keep the temp constant, adding salt won't do much. THe main thing that needs to be done is water changes. Change 50% a week (at least once or 2 25%). Make sure that he does that because thats hte biggest problem. Then I would say that if you feed feeder fish to stop because they don;t have much nutritional value. Just feed hikari gold, and keep doing water changes. I would take pics in a month to see how it clears up. Keep track of the progress and if it looks like its not getting better I would suggest soaking the hikari pellets in a vitamin supplement or just some vitamin water or even smearing them with banana, anything to get more nutrients to him.


I would ask February's POTM winner, as he has a lot of info on treating hole in the head for oscars.

 

[headbanger_jib]

hith can be cure with good water quality and a well balanced diet to your Oscar
but if its tooo bad then try metronidazole as meds

 

[TMDragon]

Just keep the temp constant, adding salt won't do much. THe main thing that needs to be done is water changes. Change 50% a week (at least once or 2 25%). Make sure that he does that because thats hte biggest problem. Then I would say that if you feed feeder fish to stop because they don;t have much nutritional value. Just feed hikari gold, and keep doing water changes. I would take pics in a month to see how it clears up. Keep track of the progress and if it looks like its not getting better I would suggest soaking the hikari pellets in a vitamin supplement or just some vitamin water or even smearing them with banana, anything to get more nutrients to him.


I would ask February's POTM winner, as he has a lot of info on treating hole in the head for oscars.