blake

HITH is not contagious, BTW. The reason multiple fish usually get it at the same time is because in most cases they are living under the same water params and have identical diets. ;)

Posted by Guest on Tue 16 Mar 2004 12:26:04 PM CST

Hi, thanks for your concern! We were very concerned about this also (this picture was taken a couple of years ago) and did everything to ensure he had good water quality. But what I think actually cured this problem was diet: I went to great lengths to ...

Hi, thanks for your concern! We were very concerned about this also (this picture was taken a couple of years ago) and did everything to ensure he had good water quality. But what I think actually cured this problem was diet: I went to great lengths to find a variety of foods that he would eat, including spirulina sticks. Believe me, that wasn't easy: he is a VERY picky eater. He will actually turn away from me if I am not holding the exact food container he wants.
He no longer has the pitting you see in the picture. I think the pitting was the result of opportunistic bacteria deteriorating the margins of his nostrils and lateral line pores. We had heard about how awful hole-in-the-head disease was also, but I think it is either curable in its earlier stages or else perhaps this was not a case of hole-in-the-head.

Posted by ParrotCichlidGirl on Mon 24 Nov 2003 07:08:31 PM CST

jon

he clearly has a bad case of whole in the head. If you don not want your other fish to catch it you mut separate them before they all suffer the same fate.

Posted by Guest on Wed 16 Apr 2003 08:06:06 AM CDT