My poor firemouth!

[Pleco-Heaven]

I looked at one of my Firemouths this morning and he's not looking so good, he has what looks like a open wound (red patch) which I am concerned about and also a couple of big white blotches, 1 on his head and one down his back which I think is HITH. What can I do to help?

 

[BlueIce]

get some melafix and raise your temp a little.

HITH= hole in the head... doesn't sound anything like that from what you described.

 

[F 1]

Is it a white cottony growth? If so, you can treat it with pimafix and when the white cottony growth is gone treat with melafix to heal the wounds. I just went through (still going through) healing a firemouth that got the stufing knocked out of him by convict parents.

F1

 

[a_ellis]

sounds like it might be a bacterial ulcer with a secondary fungus infection,
here's a link for more info:just copy & paste the address, i can't figure out how to insert the link

http/www.fishdoc.co.uk/disease/ulcers.htm
Bacterial ulcers and infections

 

[Pleco-Heaven]

There is one white spot on the forehead which doesn't sound like any of which you have described I'll try get a pic. the wound looks like it is clearing up but is still there, do you think this is the cause of fighting.

Also, I would like to know how fast Firemouths grow because when they grow too big mum will let me get a new tank for them I was thinking of moving The Golden firemouth, the 2 largest firemouths and the plec to the larger tank. Oh yeah the tank will be as big as it should be so what size tank?

 

[Pleco-Heaven]

Problem solved, the white spot is just scar tissue from fighting with shark, I saw them fighting real bad this morning and the firemouth got another spot.