Red Oscar seems stressd...

[Hennessy4ME99]

Hi everyone, My Red Oscar seems stressed out. She barely eats, seems a luttle dull colored, and she sits at the bottom of the tank. It looks like deppression =( I have her for almost a year w/ an albino oscar i just recently moved them down from LA maybe about 6 weeks ago. She seemed to be fine before except for her apetite. Any suggestions on how to perk her up? Anyone think that it might be water conditions. Im running a wet/dry filter also i just added a black backing that has a slight reflection, anyone think its her reflection that has got her down?
thank you for anyones time and input.

-hennessy

[O-man21]

check you water...how often do you do water changes..and what size tank is she/he in?
it may be that they are gettingsome secondary infection from the stress of moving.

[Hennessy4ME99]

what should i check for? i have Nitrate test and Ammonia test. I havent done a water change yet. The water here irvine is kinda on the hard side. Any type of softner i used though didnt help. It is a 60 gallon. I used amquel and conditioner made by amquel for gettint he water ready. thx O-man21

[125gJoe]

Try about a 50% water change...
Keep the water temps close to the same..

[Chinese Star]

It may be water temp. I know my tropicals got a little slow and depressed looking when the water temp dropped a little in their tank.

[Dragon_Lord_Tia]

when my oscr got sick it wouldnt eat the same symptoms as u and i treated it with braoud spectrum and it was fine in a week but keep on with the treatment for 20 days to kill all the newly hatched eggs to prevent a new infestation

[Hennessy4ME99]

Dragon-

When you say broad spectrum what are you talking about exactly? Im gonna do the water change and turn up the temp to a luttle over 80 its at 77 at the moment.

[Hennessy4ME99]

WOAh! When i went to do the water change, the surface of the side with the return pool had a lot of white growth on it. It was alos somewhat oily looking. Im not sure if its worms, it looked almost like fine white powerd sprinkled over the top. I removed the layer as best as i could by dumping some water and using a net. I did the water change. What is that growth? Do I need to medicate?

[Dragon_Lord_Tia]

broad spectrum is a medication for fish it treats fungal,paracities hithd(not very well i add)whit spot, finnrot almost every disease use 25/30 per 20 L in stead of 20 m it work better it works for me and if u feed your oscar fedders like i do treat the fish before u feed it to the oscar to prevent a new out break also treat ur oscar FOR 20 DAYS