White stringy fungus on my indo dat

[kikrman]

Hey I recently picked up my first indo at 10cm and noticed three white stringy bits of what looked like fungus coming from just under its eye a few days later. I did two big water changes to keep water clean thinking it might of just bumped it on something since its still a bit skittish since picking it up. The next day the stringy bits are gone and now has three white dots or lumps where they were. I checked again today and the lumps now look like holes? Just wondering if this is a form of infection, HITH or something similar. He was pretty skinny when i got it. The pics where stable were day 2 and the unstable is today and not eating.



Cheers,
Luke

 

[mattstevens1]

Hard to tell but it doesn't really look like HITH... but if you really think it is I'd bump the temp up to 80-82 degrees or so... try adding some epsom salt, If not I read somewhere to treat for the bacteria Hexamita... or something like that I forget the exact spelling. I would start treating it with metronidazole. That is what I used to stop HITH with one of my oscars back in the day. Worked great.

 

[kikrman]

Oh ok cheers for that. I'll have a chat to a few people and see what they think before i start adding meds to be sure.

 

[kikrman]

Does anyone else have an idea how this happened and how to fix it?