Early Hole In The Head In Oscar?

[phantomlink]

I know Cichlids are prone to Hold in the Head, and was curious about our Oscar.  He has a small indent in his forhead that showed up awhile ago, its hard to get a picture but this is what I've got.  The spot is white atm because we moved him into a small 20g to treat if it is HitH since I cant treat the entire 75g tank with the bottle of Metro+ I have and he spent awhile digging the sand up so hes got pieces all over him
 
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2vjWzSRvjM
 

 

[TropicanaFish]

I hate to say it but to me it looks like the begging of the hole in the head desiese

 

[phantomlink]

I have a small bottle of Metro+ which should be enough to medicate for the week it suggests in the 20g he is currently housed in.  It would take the entire bottle every day to dose the 75 he was in

 

[TropicanaFish]

Alright I hope that he gets better

 

[snazy]

I've used JBL spiroxexol and it eradicated a hexamita problem after a 3 nonths battle, including metro for ages. The shop reccomended it at the time as they said they used it on their hole in the head cases to very good effect. But you still need to figure what triggered it as it can reappear.
 
What type of metro do you have? As far as i know its very difficult to dissolve in water, hence it needs gelatin and stuff like seachem focus to bind it to food and it isn't dosed in the water for that reason.

 

[phantomlink]

I have this:
http/www.bigalspets.ca/metro-3-5-fl-oz.html

 

[snazy]

I don't know this one. Is it in liquid form?

 

[phantomlink]

Its a powder, its the only med I can find around here for hoth, half the meds people talk about are either American, Euro, or need a vet prescription 

 

[mark4785]

It does look like HITH to me. 
 
Has anybody had any luck with using Seachem Metronidazole to treat HITH?

 

[snazy]

Its a powder, its the only med I can find around here for hoth, half the meds people talk about are either American, Euro, or need a vet prescription 

 
If its powder, its almost impossible to dissolve in water as far as i know but from the back of my head i do remember a version which is soluble but had a slightly different name. There should be instructions for your bottle i guess. Otherwise have a look online how to dissolve in food instead(it smelled horrible and my fish wouldn't eat it,at least most of it)

 

[phantomlink]

I could buy some plain gelatin and make cubes or something for him to eat, same method as blending home made good the gel keeps it together after freezing

 

[snazy]

I could buy some plain gelatin and make cubes or something for him to eat, same method as blending home made good the gel keeps it together after freezing

Yep, that's the way to do it.Some garlic juice in it won't hurt either so he doesn't spit it out instantly. And I am not sure of availability but products like seachem focus bind the metro to the food better.

 

[phantomlink]

All I have here is the Metro and I can buy bland gel at the grocery store across the road, anything else will take time to ship out esp so close to the weekend.  I just have no idea how much powder to put in a cube, it says 10mg for 10 gallons of water but direct feeding? no instructions

 

[snazy]

All I have here is the Metro and I can buy bland gel at the grocery store across the road, anything else will take time to ship out esp so close to the weekend.  I just have no idea how much powder to put in a cube, it says 10mg for 10 gallons of water but direct feeding? no instructions

 
I used Seachem metronidazole and they suggest: "To feed, blend 1 measure(100mg) with about 1 tablespoon of frozen food paste"

 

[phantomlink]

This is Hikari Metro, so they MIGHT be the same thing I'll have to look it up, but some of the bottle has already been used and its only a  97g bottle so hmmm....