Hole In The Head Disease

[Spishkey]

can anyone tell me how to treat this please? is it true i just need to keep the water clean and healthy or does it need medication? it is not severe, just a small hole on one of the oscars. many thanks

 

[Spishkey]

aw just been googling, it said to also check the lateral line. i have done this and both fish have 'pits' along the line
also it says increase vit C in the diet, whats high in vit C

 

[ox5477]

If you look at the above sticky on common fish medications, I see "Metrozol" is a treatment for this. See if you can wrangle up some of this ASAP.... much better to catch HITH in the early stages... can go down hill very fast

Ox

 

[Amerce]

Shame your not in the UK but if you can buy it in Belgiium go for Octozin it is supposed to treat HTH.

 

[DarkEntity]

HITH is the symptom not the cause, you need to start looking at causes. Check your water stats, poor water is a common cause for HITH.

 

[Spishkey]

the fish were in extremely poor water, so dirty you could hardly see the fish