Beat up Oscar

[spirals]

Sometimes I hate customers...
Ok, so guy comes in the other day and guilt trips me into accepting 2 10" Oscars and 2 12" plecos even though I told him repeatedly that our store does not accept fish because we don't have the tank space to deal with him. What got me is when he said "oh ok, I guess I'll just dump this bucket in the parking lot then since I don't have time to take them another fish store" and one look at the guy and I knew he would actually do it.
Poor oscars were sitting on their sides in this bucket (like a 2G sand pail a small child would use at the beach with the plecos and looking absolutely miserable). Put all 4 in our 30G qt tank and instantly both oscars were up and swimming about. Both plecos are out of the picture (employees took them home for various tank/pond) but now the poor oscars are left in this tank (which we can't use to qt any other fish, god I hate people). One oscar has scars all over his body and places where he got really chewed up by something ( I haven't seen the other oscar going for him, they seem to be good pals) so I've been adding melafix to the water to try to help with that.
SO on top of everything when I was looking at the beat up oscar the other day i noticed his eye looked really weird when you viewed it from the front. His other eyeball was a nice semi-circle shape, somewhat cloudy looking (from the side it looked perfect though) but his left eye was very very cloudy looking and had the shape of a hersheys kiss. I'll try to get a pic today.
In short, is there anything else i can do to help him out? and does anyone in the NOVA area want 2 oscars?

[jtburf]

well some of the chain stores in my area have a 75 gallon with goldies in it,. Does your store have one? you might be able to show customers how big they get when they want one for a 30g until he gets bought or taken.

[spirals]

nope, all we have is our 15G sized display tanks, a 30g and a 10g qt tanks in the back. I wish we could set up a 75 display, that'd be beastly and awesome, but would never be approved :(

[wataugachicken]

sometimes oscars can get really torn up when they are being netted. if the guy didn't take the time to catch that one carefully, that is probably why it looks so bad. as far as the eye, bad water conditions are to blame. no way to heal it back to normal, just keep water clean to prevent it getting worse.

[jtburf]

do yall have any damaged tanks for sale you might be able to pitch the idea to your manager to let yall set it up as that.

[jm1212]

keep him seperate from the other fish just to be safe.

[Broham]

what petstore is this? i live in the nova area and i feel like i have to save these cichlids ;( what a sad day it is to hear such news

[Broham]

In regards to the eye i'm pretty sure its from a fight with another cichlid. Cichlids aim for eyes. the eyes of a cichlid are very strong though and will heal up over time with frequent water changes. Although, it can be something else without examination i can only speculate

[spirals]

so apparently there was a shift of power on my day off and there is talk of me getting a 55g qt tank, only problem, no freaking space to put it! ARGH!
Neither one of them seems to be eating either, tried shrimp pellets and cichlid pellets, it looks like someone put some feeders in yesterday (i found some floating guts, ew) so hopefully they just aren't hungry when i'm feeding them.
broham, sent pm for ya, hopefully you're close.

[jtburf]

have you told the fish staff not to feed feeders/ tell them you are taking care of them. is there room for the tank at the front of the fish section?
you could use this 55g to show people a full grown oscar but like i said try and find a broken tank for sale and convince them to set it up.

[spirals]

yeah, i left a pretty enraged (they can tell by handwriting) note on the feeders. partly because i'm the only one who will have anything to do with the qt tank, so i'm the one who gets to syphon out fish guts. i have the option of setting up a tank outside if someone returns one so if that happens i'm going to move the big oscars (maybe not these big oscars because they are so beat up) to there and be like, look at my massive fish!

[jtburf]

LOL they would be like. omg it is like 50 times bigger then the last 50 we went through last month in that new tank.LOL

[Broham]

To be honest, let them peacefully heal and check water parameters. As long as they dont beat each other up, theyll heal. Feeders will simply give them a hole in the head, so punch any one in the eye who feeds them one ;) I saw 2 oscars for adoption at diff petstore yesterday and thought it was your store, but it wasnt. They were big oscars as well. I would need a mAssive 100 gallon setup for Samerican oscars then. currently saving up some money for tank 2

[spirals]

they are cute buggers, i wish i had a big enough tank to bring them home myself. i threw an airstone in there the other day (i know it won't help put much oxygen in the water but it made me feel like i was trying) and now they'll sit on top of it so the bubbles hit the bottom of their heads/tails and look all content. silly things.