Hole-in-the-head Disease can be easily prevented. Treat your pets with respect.

Hole-in-the-head Disease, sounds like this problem has just walked off an old gangster movie, but it is as serious as it sounds.

It’s caused by a protozoa parasite called Hexamita or otherwise known as HITH (Hole-in-the-head). This infection is very slow, which makes it all the uglier.

How can you tell if your pet fish have Hole-in-the-head Disease?

As this disease's name indicates, you can notice pitted holes on your fishes head and nasal area. These holes aren’t red like you’d expect, they are white or gray in color.

Now, this parasite on its own won’t kill your goldfish, but if living conditions are pretty awful, the parasites will attack your pet with ‘full steam ahead’.

Conditions the parasites love.

Bad, dirty, and unclean water is paradise for the parasite, and hell for your goldfish. You need to clean your fish tank regularly. For easy steps on making sure your fish tank is clean click here.

Stress can be the cause for many goldfish diseases. Stress can be caused by having too many fish in your aquarium. To find out how large your aquarium size should be click here. A bad and unvaried diet will give anyone stress, and your fish too. Make sure you add peas, lettuce, spinach, and other green leafy vegetables to their diet of fish flakes or pellets.

How to stop this disease.

Of course, you have to make sure the water is healthy in the aquarium, the fish aren’t stressed, and they are eating well. These are all measures to keep your goldfish strong.

But if you raise the temperature of the fish tank during water changes and add 1 tablespoon of aquarium salt to 5-10 gallons of water in your aquarium, this should help deal with your parasite problem.

To find out more about other goldfish illnesses please click on the disease that interests you: Ick, Fin Rot, Fungus, Constipation, Dropsy, Pop Eye, Anchor Worm, Fish Lice Swim Bladder, Body and Gill Flukes, and Hole-in-the-head Disease.