This morning when I woke up to feed my fish. I noticed my Rainbow Shark at a whitish streak over his head or maybe that is his flesh. I don't know what is happening to him and a recently this morning changed my carbon filter after my shock.
This happened to me before with my Gourami and the Gourami died after 2 weeks or so, after I tried to find information on it.
My guess right now is that it is a disease called Hole in the Head but I am not exactly sure.
Can anyone suggest or give me information right now? Is this caused by a disease or is he scrapping his head around the aquarium?
He is housed with 7 clown loach, 3 angelfish, and 4 corydoras in a 180 Gal.
2007-10-18 12:14:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
HITH would be a depression in the head, although it may look lighter than the surrounding skin. This is caused by diet and a parasite. You can get info on that in these links:
http://www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=16&cat=1791&articleid=2586
What you're seeing could also be the early stages of body fungus/saprolegiosis if he did scrape his head or was in a fight with another fish (the "fungal" infections rarely attack healthy fish, but will infect open wounds or fish under a lot of stress (from poor diet, poor water quality, wrong temperature). Another possibility is a bacterial ifection (Columnaris) which looks similar to a fungus - you can separate the two because Columnaris has shorter matted filaments and a circular outline, where body fugus has longer straighter filaments and an irregular outline.
2007-10-18 12:42:45 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear friend
This subject seems to be a infection desease to name Ichtiofteriosis. which is shown with some spot on fish body. You can use a 3ppm(3 part per millioon) formalin solution bath for treatment. submerg the fish in this solution 3 time a week for 2 hours.
2007-10-19 08:46:13 · answer #2 · answered by md h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-15 03:24:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, first off, id like to say that I am thoroughly impressed with how light you are stocking! That is wonderful for the fish! My guess is that he has some sort of fungus. Do you have a quarentine tank? if you do, put him in there. Contact your lfs for a better diagnosis.
2007-10-18 12:36:08 · answer #4 · answered by FishRfine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋