Need Help Again... HITH? PIMPLE on FIN?

[Desiree]

Hi guys, i need your help to confirm if my Aro has Holes in the Head and a pimple on its Anal Fin. Pictures are in my Gallery under Injured Aro. Sorry, after so long i still do not know how to attach pictures in my thread. They always turn out too small.

Anyway, as some would recall, my Aro suffered from a fall last month. It then suffered from an Eye Infection and Torn Anal Fin. I added acriflavin and epsom salt after shifting my Aro to a spare 2 FT tank. So that my Bacteria would not die and i can save on the amounts of medication required.

I think i may have either overdosed medication or left it in there for too long to have caused his current condition. I put him back in his orginal tank a few days after medication. The tank he is in now has 0 ammonia and less than 0.3mg/l of nitrite. pH is 6.7 - 6.8. The only thing out of my control at the moment is salt percentage as i do not have a salt reader. However, i do not believe that it is the water condition in his current tank that can be causing his condition.

Really not sure how it happened... Things are happening one after another. This is like a crash course for me. Hopefully everything that can happen when he young, then next time don't occur anymore.

So is that Holes In The Head and what should i do about the pimple on his Anal Fin? I have increased the level of salt, and underdosed the tank with melafix and pimafix. I have accquired a bottle of multicure as well. But do not want to do anything too drastic as yet until further adviced as my Aro is swimming happily and eating well, greeting me whenever i pass the tank.

Thank you.

hith is usually caused by hexamita which is found in the waste of fishes. ur aro might have its immunity system reduced significantly for the hexamita bacteria to strike. basically hexamita prevents the wounds on the head from recovering fast. one good medication would be octozin from waterlife, if not u have to use a copious amount of salt to solve ur problem, do add a heater, and underdose ur aquamedi multicure. do add vitamin additives for ur aro as it helps in boosting the immune system. maiantain excellent water parameters but inducing regular water changes. pimple on fin would prolly be a bacteria cyst....that can be cure with good water parameters and salt.

[Aroboy II]

Allow me to help you.

Originally Posted by Desiree

Hi guys, i need your help to confirm if my Aro has Holes in the Head and a pimple on its Anal Fin. Pictures are in my Gallery under Injured Aro. Sorry, after so long i still do not know how to attach pictures in my thread. They always turn out too small.

Anyway, as some would recall, my Aro suffered from a fall last month. It then suffered from an Eye Infection and Torn Anal Fin. I added acriflavin and epsom salt after shifting my Aro to a spare 2 FT tank. So that my Bacteria would not die and i can save on the amounts of medication required.

I think i may have either overdosed medication or left it in there for too long to have caused his current condition. I put him back in his orginal tank a few days after medication. The tank he is in now has 0 ammonia and less than 0.3mg/l of nitrite. pH is 6.7 - 6.8. The only thing out of my control at the moment is salt percentage as i do not have a salt reader. However, i do not believe that it is the water condition in his current tank that can be causing his condition.

Really not sure how it happened... Things are happening one after another. This is like a crash course for me. Hopefully everything that can happen when he young, then next time don't occur anymore.

So is that Holes In The Head and what should i do about the pimple on his Anal Fin? I have increased the level of salt, and underdosed the tank with melafix and pimafix. I have accquired a bottle of multicure as well. But do not want to do anything too drastic as yet until further adviced as my Aro is swimming happily and eating well, greeting me whenever i pass the tank.

Thank you.

[kyo_k81]

Originally Posted by Desiree

. Pictures are in my Gallery under Injured Aro. Sorry, after so long i still do not know how to attach pictures in my thread. They always turn out too small.

you can uploaded all ur pics to photobucket.com and they seem to be working

register at photobucket
login to photobucket .
click browse
navigate to your image
click submit
your image will be uploaded, may take a minute

when the upload is done, the page will refresh, scroll down and your pictures are listed. under each picture is a textbox with the reference to your image.
The thrid textbox looks like [ IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/kyo_k81/se1.jpg[/IMG] copy that and paste it here and you get....

Note: for example purpose, the [ IMG] shouldn't have a spacing between '[' and 'I'


hope that help..

Originally Posted by Desiree

Hi guys, i need your help to confirm if my Aro has Holes in the Head and a pimple on its Anal Fin. Pictures are in my Gallery under Injured Aro. Sorry, after so long i still do not know how to attach pictures in my thread. They always turn out too small.

Anyway, as some would recall, my Aro suffered from a fall last month. It then suffered from an Eye Infection and Torn Anal Fin. I added acriflavin and epsom salt after shifting my Aro to a spare 2 FT tank. So that my Bacteria would not die and i can save on the amounts of medication required.

I think i may have either overdosed medication or left it in there for too long to have caused his current condition. I put him back in his orginal tank a few days after medication. The tank he is in now has 0 ammonia and less than 0.3mg/l of nitrite. pH is 6.7 - 6.8. The only thing out of my control at the moment is salt percentage as i do not have a salt reader. However, i do not believe that it is the water condition in his current tank that can be causing his condition.

Really not sure how it happened... Things are happening one after another. This is like a crash course for me. Hopefully everything that can happen when he young, then next time don't occur anymore.

So is that Holes In The Head and what should i do about the pimple on his Anal Fin? I have increased the level of salt, and underdosed the tank with melafix and pimafix. I have accquired a bottle of multicure as well. But do not want to do anything too drastic as yet until further adviced as my Aro is swimming happily and eating well, greeting me whenever i pass the tank.

Thank you.

hi Desiree,

when did u last perform a water change & how much?
wat kind of salt did u add? Aquarium salt or Epsom salt? Excessive Aq salt (eg. more than 0.5%) may be harmful in the long term.
I would not absolutely rule out the possibility of unfavourable water condition. ideally, nitrite should be zero but yours isn't.

seems like infection on the head but i cant confirm whether they're holes in the head . as for the pimple, i would not be too worried. my aro had it before on its tail fin but disappeared after a week (i juz perform my routine water change ).

Cheers.

[kyo_k81]

Everything you ever wanted to know about HITH / HLLE

http://www.cichlidfish.com/Adam/hith.html

[XRTG]

Hi,

good news on the eye of your aro. regarding the holes on the head. it does looks bad. imho, you should be doing more frequent partial water changes. don't add salt if you're unsure of the salt level in your tank. you can add salt later after a few water change sessions. perhaps changing 20% water with aged water once every 2 days would benifit your aro and hasten it's recovery.

i also think that you should avoid medication at this stage unless our aromedic confirms that the holes are some kind of infection. usually, I'd also see some holes on my aro's head when the water condition is bad. but yours is a bit extream. hence the ferquent water changes i suggested.

good luck.

yes, tat is HITH. buy octozin from waterlife. u will need 3 doses, about 3 bottles, if in 5 ft tank. add exact amt, coz it will not work if undermedicated.

add vitamins into aro food too.

pimple on fin removed by maintaining clean water.

[Desiree]

Thanks for help on the pictures kyo_k81 and Aroboy II....

The last time i changed water was a few days ago only. 15% of it.

I added in Epsom and Aquarium during his treatment. What i suspect is that the problem arose in the 2FT tank while under treatment. Then i only noticed that something is wrong now when he is settled in his current 3 FT tank so i was wondering how i could ease the problem. But its true, i shouldn't rule out bad water conditions in my tank.

A few days ago i cleaned out my cannisters hose. It was filled with mushy whitish/yellowish stuff. The stuff was suspended in the hoses and did not look like fish waste to me. Anyones knows what this may be? Could it be a problem?

[Desiree]

Thanks for sharing experiences and advises as well..