RE: [GSAS-Member] Hole-in-the-Head Disease -- need advice

["Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

Anita:

I think your little blue rams want to breed. You might want to move them to
a different tank. That would be cool if they did! Paul Wallace and Sandu
Simion know how to spawn them. They could be stressing out your angels, too.

I'm glad the orphan angelfish found a caring home and ate right away. I kept
him at about 80 degrees also.

Susan

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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:20 PM
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Subject: [GSAS-Member] Hole-in-the-Head Disease -- need advice

A sharper-eyed aquarist than I am (Susan W., to give credit where credit is
due) spotted what is probably Hole-in-the-Head disease in two of my
adolescent angels (also maybe the 3rd, but she's not giving me her right
profile at the moment).  They are in a 40 gallon tank, which is kept at 80
degrees (just checked to make sure), VERY heavily planted and inhabited also
by shrimp, along with a variety of other fish.

I've tried to do 1/4 water changes once a week, but must admit that I've
been hospitalized a couple of times in the last month, so even with a python
it hasn't been as frequent as I would like.  Nevertheless, I feel really
guilty right now, because Susan discovered this right after she had put a
beautiful new angel in the tank (BTW, the angel came out as soon as the
bloodworms arrived, and is now hanging with the other angels, and they are
all moving as a group, so socially the adjustment looks good).  Since I
raised my 3 angels from the size of a thumbnail (your basic $2.50 special),
I am somewhat invested in having them both survive and thrive -- it was my
love of angels that made me decide to buy an aquarium in the first place.

The medicine I have at hand is Maracide.

My instinct is to do a 1/3 water change tonight, and another one tomorrow,
and also tomorrow pick up some sort of med specific to hex, take out the
chem pure, and start dosing.  Alternatively, I could set up a 20 gal
hospital tank and move all the angels into it (don't have any other large
cichlids), and just have a filter in there during treatment.

However, I'm open to suggestions.  Susan has particularly recommended Steev
Ward's advice, but I am such a newbie at all of this, I'll listen to
everyone.

Please take pity on my poor angels, and give me some good advice.

Anita

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