Oscar help fast!!!?

Question

I bought 2 oscars about 2 weeks ago..They were doing all fine and eating chiclid pellets.. these 2 days one of my oscar lost alot of scales from his side and now there is white were there was orange...(its not itch...the fish looks week and is not eating(when i threw food it was the first to come the fastest and eat)Now shes barely moving...What can i do for my poor fish??Thanks...could it be internal parrasites caused by stress?

My oscar is not inflated..He lost his scales from his side...hes eating a little now...i am doing a 75% water change every weak....what can i do to save my fish?

Answer 1

The white patch you describe sounds like a classic case of cichlid aggression. It sounds like the other oscar isn't too happy about having a tank mate. Oscars are often very aggressive as juvinies, but usually mellow out with age. The best thing for this injured fish is to separate with a divider or to put it in a quarantine tank. A larger tank almost always reduces aggression. You should have them in nothing smaller than a 55 gallon, although a 125 would be much better. Please email me if you have any questions.

Answer 2

Quarintine! ! ! ! ! ! How big is your tank ? What kind of filters do you have? Is the other Oscar picking on the weak one. When you post make sure to be specific and write more detail then you think would be necessary so someone with experience could help you more. For right now I would say stop with the 75 percent water changes remember that we as aquarist are trying to duplicate mother nature in a tank. YOu can be throwing away good bacteria that functional tanks need. Add aqaurium salt. Your local fish store should have this and follow the instructions on the box. Do this if you do not have a quarintine tank. It also sounds like your oscar is losing his protective slime coat. When this happens infection is soon to follow. For this add STRESS COAT by Doc Wellfish. Good luck and if yo uneed my assistance any further
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Answer 3

i might say pass the 30 gallon tank, mine grew from a sprint over an inch to six inches in a count of months in a great aquarium. A thirty gallon tank for a fish already 3.5 inches would be tight. Oscars are VERY grimy fish and could wreck the stability of a tank, the bigger tank is a might desire to. the better tank will additionally preclude ammonia achieving poisonous tiers as rapid. prepare the tank and keep a dozen guppies or different small feeder fish in it for some weeks to help initiate the bio cycles and then initiate making waiting for an oscar, it takes months to suitable set up a tank, and a newly arranged tank won't help the oscar nicely. to no longer say that it won't be in a position to be achieved, it is going to easily be difficult to do, your nitrogen tiers would be everywhere for a protracted time and isn't any longer extraordinarily forgiving. you will might desire to heavily visual demonstrate unit the water stability and be waiting for regularly occurring water alterations to maintain the fish waste from transforming into poisonous. if your 30 gallon is nicely conventional i might say the oscar might desire to stay there for 6 months at maximum. in spite of if it relatively is not nicely conventional, i does no longer difficulty. in spite of if it relatively is sturdy to bypass, set up the ninety gallon on a similar time you get the oscar so as that once the oscar needs to bypass to a sparkling tank, the ninety gallon is conventional with feeder fish already available. sturdy luck

Answer 4

It could be dropsy. Have a look at the website below for more information.
Have you tested the water for chemicals? Do you use a tapsafe chemical in the water at all when you do a water change? It may just be that the fish is stressed if it is now eating again. The falling scales, seemed to indicate dropsy, but as you said its not bloated at all. Could it have caught itself on anything in the tank like the rocks or wood if you have any?

Answer 5

it sounds like ammonia poisening


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