OK got the angelfish photo! THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP
Sorry to hear that, Tom; that was quite a sudden turn of events. With her belly being fat, which we hadn’t known before, she may have had an internal infection (note; I’m not referring to internal parasites here), perhaps even the start of Dropsy or a swim bladder disease, all resulting in a swollen abdomen. While none of this would have been associated with HITH disease, I did mention for you to fill us in on any further behavior in the fish’s refusal to eat to help pinpoint the reason. I did not want to jump the gun at that point, but had I known a bit more of the fish’s behavior I would have said further that you could not rule out the possibility of Hexamita, which Angels are known to carry (and which often compromises their health to the point of no return if not treated in time) — and which I suspected as soon as I learned of the hunger strike.
As I had stated in a previous post, this also has nothing to do with HITH, as studies have borne out against the earlier theory, but Metronidazole would have been the medication of choice, had this been the diagnosis. A swollen belly would not indicate Hexamita though. Your temperatures of 78 o or 79 o is fine for maintaining Angelfish under normal circumstances; this should not have been a cause for her getting Ich, but I just need to know to try to understand how it got started.
Yes, today’s Black Angelfish are less hardy than most other varieties; they can be more susceptible to diseases — that’s not a fallacy. I still can’t make a connection between what appears to be a definite wound (from its quite jagged outline) and any possible internal issues. It seems to me that one is removed from any possibility of the other, as a separate incident. I can’t say for sure why the white area got bigger when it started to heal, except that perhaps the underlying wound was larger under the black- pigmented skin than originally appeared. Ray
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