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Posted	Tiger Oscar
21-05-2006 10:04 by stevecm3	Help please! I have a 15 month old oscar who resides in a 50 gallon tank with 1 pleco, I do a 40% water change every week and feed him every other day with a range of flafe food river shrimp now and then and prawns cookles. I havew treated my tank with octozon for the hole in the headbut dtill it does not improve can any one advise me how I can get anti bs for the tank as my current treatment is not working. Oh and filteration i have 2 box filters that came with the tank and a fluval 305. Water qualitry is always spot on when i test it and am at my witts end. Help me please??
21-05-2006 10:06 by stevecm3	here is a piccy
21-05-2006 10:12 by stevecm3	here is a photo ohhh my poor fish typing isnt much better sorry for typos
21-05-2006 10:16 by Jake Casson	Treating hole in the head is normally unsucessful, very supprised he even got it if your saying the water is always spot on.
21-05-2006 10:33 by Phill Austen	I believe that water can test well for nitrite nitrate etc and still have high levels of bacteria. I have had fish show bacterial infections (fin and body damage) in water that tests OK. I find that several large 75% water changes and a reduction in feed (especially flake food) puts things back on an even keel. ORP is supposed to be the best indicator of a system's sanitising ability.
21-05-2006 11:01 by stevecm3	Thanks for the advice sorry but what is ORP? also is there a specific brand of food which i should be purchasing for my oscar I use hikari cichlid sticks at present but wondered if there was perhaps a better one that i should use.
21-05-2006 11:37 by paul stevens	I have got a green terror that got the hole in the head and i treated him with watlife...Myxazin for fin rot,ulsers,sores and other bacteria infections. I found this worked well but he has still got the hole but its all clear of any infection now but it did clear it up quickly.
21-05-2006 11:54 by Phill Austen	ORP stands for Oxygen Reduction Potential, it is used most commonly in marine systems to monitor ozone use, but I believe (despite initial redervations) that it is a good indication of the health of a system (and HITH is almost certainly due to exposure to poor water at some time) there is a thread on Finarama dicussing it. I don't know how to put a link on here, so I will just type it in http://www.finarama.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=466 Good luck
21-05-2006 12:31 by Danny Boy	does sound unusual to have HITH with such a tank regime. this is normally seen in badly maintained tanks. are you treating the tap water that you are using when making a water change?
21-05-2006 18:13 by von	You nedd metronidazole, you can get it from a vet. I had this in my green terror and my tank is very well maintained i guess it's just down to individual fish are not as resistant as they should be. A course of metronidazole did the trick and he's no scars
21-05-2006 22:26 by stevecm3	Thanks to everyone who gave me advice, to answer Danny boy yes i do treat for chlorine when i top up tank. Anyway got some great advice so will keep yuo posted thanks again, oh and sorry that the pics didnt come out must be to big???

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