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nathan15
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posted 02-01-2003 08:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for nathan15     Edit/Delete Message
I have had 2 oscars for about 1.5 years. One is a red oscars and the other an albino. The albino has recently started gettting these craters on his head and they have moved down his sides but are much smaller on his sides. I started looking for what it could be and thought it could be Hole in the head disease but after seeing pictures of HITH disease my oscars symptoms dont look anything like that.

They marks do not look like sores, there is no mucus, and no signs of parasites. The markings on my oscar look more like scars and some have got quite large. The fish shows no signs of stress what so ever and the red oscar has no markings anywhere.

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jay
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posted 02-02-2003 01:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jay     Edit/Delete Message
your fish has head rot.... im sorry to say i dont know how to cure it.. but im sure you can look it up

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mosso
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posted 02-02-2003 07:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mosso     Edit/Delete Message
hi nathan,
yup sounds like head rot to me.
as far as i know there is no cure, but ask the guys at your local fish store to make sure.

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nathan15
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posted 02-02-2003 03:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for nathan15     Edit/Delete Message
I have decided for safety purposes im going to treat it as HITH. The reason I decided this is because if it is HITH I dont want it to get to far gone and kill my fish and Head Rot is claimed to be caused by the precense of activated carbon.

So I am using Clout to treat them which requires the removal of activated carbon.

If the marks clear up I will put the carbon filters for my bio wheel back in and do a 40% water change.

Then if the hole start to come back I will know it was head rot after all and will just have to quit using carbon filters.

My question is is there a filter for bio wheels that does not contain activated carbon?

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Hooben

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posted 02-02-2003 05:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hooben     Edit/Delete Message
I remember seeing a bio-wheel filter kit at Petsmart that contained the filter floss material and a plastic cage that had no carbon, but would open so that you could put carbon into it. Or you could simply get a regular filter pad and cut a hole through the back side plastic to take all of the carbon out! There are also bio-chem stars that are small enough to put in your filter, which will float around and create wet-dry filtration.
hope this helps!

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