beat up oscar

psychadelicdrea

psychadelicdrea

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i just built a partition for my oscar thats really beat up....fins are torn down pretty bad...and whatnot.....what my question is ...is their anything i should put in their to try to help him heal faster .....im gonna put some feeders in their try to cheer him up.....try to get him to eat.....after getting beat up i guess he dont feel much like eating...any medicine or should i just leave him be isolated and provide food and see if he bounces back? :huh:
 
I wouldn't feed my fish feeders from an LFS anyway, they come with all kinds of nice diseases, and really aren't that nutritional for the fish, especially the goldfish. Right now I wouldn't feed him for a day or two, get some Melafix in there, some people will say it doesn't work, but from my expirience they heal much faster with using it. Also add some salt, for now about 1 cup to your tank. DO a water change before all of this, 40-50%, and bump the temp up to 80ish.
 
its not gonna hurt the outher fish......and i put salt in their...maybe not a cup but i put salt in it
 
Nope it won't hurt them. Thats a lower dosage than I use for discus when they come down with stuff, or have fin damage. Been using 1/2 cup per 10gal if I have to use salt to treat for anything, and absolutely no problems. Treatment was reccomended to me by one of the moderators on a discus board.
 
dosent that stuff discolor the water.........i just paid 70 bucks for a uv to clear the green water.....not to just get blue water right off the bat......and if it dosent start eating soon it's gonna die......and hopefully its fins will grow back..they got tore up pretty bad....hes barely got a back fin left...
 
Also when i got home and checked on him......his tail and on his side where he got wounded its all puffed up and cotten like its reall fluffy like and kinda stringy....its on his back tail and side where it got torn down pretty bad...is this part of the healing process or is it a infection?
 
Looks like he has got an infection, I would definately treat him. You will probably find that once you start treating him, he might start eating again. And dont forget to turn your uv off when treating, also do water changes when treating adding the neccesary amout of meds to change water and take your filter material out of the filter and maybe put it in another tank so it dosen't die. btw I would not be too concerned about the colour of the water, once the treatment is over do a big water change and put in some carbon and the water should clear up pretty quick.
 
I totally agree with Nat on adding about 1/2 cup of salt per 10 gal. as a treatment for your oscar. They can handle the salt, the added electrolytes promote slime coat reproduction, salt prevents the lost of choride ions and reduces osmotic stress. Your other fish will do just fine with the salt as well. The only thing I would suggest is adding an airstone as the increased salt and increased temperature will reduce your water's oxygen holding capacity.
 
psychadelicdrea said:
i just built a partition for my oscar thats really beat up....fins are torn down pretty bad...and whatnot.....what my question is ...is their anything i should put in their to try to help him heal faster .....im gonna put some feeders in their try to cheer him up.....try to get him to eat.....after getting beat up i guess he dont feel much like eating...any medicine or should i just leave him be isolated and provide food and see if he bounces back? :huh:
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If he's psychologically battered, he may refuse to eat if he's in sight of his agressors. I'd try to put up a barrier so he can't see the other guys.

I had a convict that was getting beat up by a female, and he stopped eating, but cheered right up after he was removed from sight of her.
 
Btw I forgot to mention that if you were going to use a med the way that I mentioned before should be done, but as Fishseller said, salt is the best way to go and is also my prefered way of treating fish. I haven't used a med on my 1850g yet and I never will, and with salt you dont have to fiddle with the filter, which can end up with bad results.
 
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