Originally Posted by
jeep
I would just stick to your current treatment and make sure to keep the water clean. Personally, I would not feed the brine shrimp. Maybe pick up some black worm flakes from Ken's Fish. It's pretty cheap and my fish took to it immediately. If this is HITH, water and nutrition can be the cause. The metro is a decent choice for treatment if the hex is present, but it's not caused by hexamita. Hex is just opportunistic. At first I thought it may just be an injury, but if you're seeing more areas then it very well could be HITH.