Melafix doesn't discolor the water, its clear, Only thing you may get is a pepperminty smell from the tank because thats what it smells like.
beat up oscar
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yah i bought some melafix.....its like friggin 7bucks around here......and i have 2 powerheads going with the air hose working and it started making a foam like bubble thing on the top of the water so i unhooked one of them.......but i hope the melafix helps...the fish laying outside of the lil clay pot i put in their for him....but now since i put up the barrior hes in the pot...and he was out swiming around alil bit......but that white cloudy stuff was hanging off of him.......i hope he bounces back i hate seeing me all torn up....hopefully his fins will grow back and he will start eating
not to be rude but if you read the back posts you could of found out.......a green terror........his back fin is like gone...its almost like he cant swim forward....just side to side cause all he has is is side fins
Well I just read through the whole thread agian and didn't see anything about a green terror. One reason I asked is because in order for threads to be as useful as possible (as an archive) they should be as self contained as possible. I just didn't want someone who reads it six months from now to have to search through all of your other posts to find the info.
musta said that in the previous post about this oscar i thought i mentioned the gt in this thread...my bad
iodine application to oscar wounds
I had a 4-H (Marine Biology) leader that had many massive (80 gallon and up) aquariums with large cichlids, mostly oscars and jack dempseys.
When her fishes got banged up she would prepare a wet towel and carefully take the injured fish out and lie him on the towel, then dab the wounds with iodine. The fishes were actually very good about it and didn't flop about much at all. I don't know if they were conditioned for that or just happened to be extraordinarily well-mannered, but the wounds healed nicely.
Anyone else ever do that?
I had a 4-H (Marine Biology) leader that had many massive (80 gallon and up) aquariums with large cichlids, mostly oscars and jack dempseys.
When her fishes got banged up she would prepare a wet towel and carefully take the injured fish out and lie him on the towel, then dab the wounds with iodine. The fishes were actually very good about it and didn't flop about much at all. I don't know if they were conditioned for that or just happened to be extraordinarily well-mannered, but the wounds healed nicely.
Anyone else ever do that?
