Yea, it'll be a little pin prick to begin with and it just grows and grows, and more holes can appear over time as well if it's not properly treated. I forget who it was but someone posted a pic of a monster oscar in some aquarium just a week or so ago and it's whole head was covered in craters.
Oscars
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first i think you should clean the water and anything that is in the tank, if the disease gets worst it can kill your fish. Oscars are prone to this diseases especially of bad water condition causing the fish to stress out. So putting them in a larger fish tank, doing regular maintenance (make sure to have a good filter with good bio filtration), dont overcrowd your fish tank, good nutrition for the fish, that will prevent HITH in the first place for your oscar
I do water changes every week and I have a filter thats good up to 70 gallons which I bought after I found out how messy the fish are. I also have a corey cat. The oscars killed the pleco and the clown loach I put in there(not at the same time but each one was killed within a week) which really frustrated me. I just haven't been getting the hours a was at work lately so its slowing down my saving up for the tank. Its hard to work full time and go to school full time, my manager started cutting my hours
I'd make sure that filter of yours isn't using carbon, because while I can't say that I've seen it first hand, but alot of people say there appears to be a link between it and HITH. So along with more frequent water changes, maybe adding metronidazole, and using a predominately pellet diet, I'd stop using carbon if that's you've got in your filter.
for 3-4 oscars and tankmates i would have to say 180 minimum. as for hith the best way to treat it is not to get it in the first place. regular water maintenance and overboard filtration is the way to go. and ditch the carbon for more bio media
DolphinRyan;2205574; said:I'd make sure that filter of yours isn't using carbon, because while I can't say that I've seen it first hand, but alot of people say there appears to be a link between it and HITH. So along with more frequent water changes, maybe adding metronidazole, and using a predominately pellet diet, I'd stop using carbon if that's you've got in your filter.
This guy doesn't know what hes talking about^^ HITH occurs commonly in oscars due to bad water quality, not tank size. Filters will not keep your water clean though, you'll have to change their water as of often as you can to remove nitrates and ammonia which no filter can remove.
I know you already know but please research the fish before buying them. Clown loaches should be kept in groups of 5 or more, plecos will grow just as large and just as fast as oscars. Cories do not do good by themselves either, groups of 3+ are good for them but you don't have the room. Get the biggest tank you can find, where are you located? I'm in Michigan too.
Heres a tank that would hold them over for a while and you could use your filter on, you'd probably just need a new heater. (visi-therm stealths are the best for large cichlids because they are shatterproof and very reliable, petsmart sells them too so they're easy to find.) You can have them pricematch their online price for the heater too if you print the page off of their website and take it in there you can save yourself about $12 or so dollars.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&item=280266844307
otherwise start looking on craigslist, new tanks are a waste of money unless you can afford them.
