Lost my Oscar today

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violatorjf

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Well, today was a very sad day. I have had a red tiger oscar for about 7 months, he was about 6 or 7 inches long and housed in a 40 gallon breeder tank. My water had turned very cloudy a few days ago and I noticed that my Oscar was acting differently. He didn't have HITH, and I couldn't tell anything wrong with him. I added in some MelaFix for a couple days, hoping he would act normal again, but no luck. Yesterday when I came home from work, he was virtually non-moving. I actually thought he was dead, but when I touched him with the net he started swimming like normal. Then today when I came home, he was on the bottom of the tank on his back. That's when I noticed the large red sore on his bottom side right between his gills. I don't know if it was an injury, because he had been known to jet around the tank and scratch his head, but it seemed like it wasn't. I immeadiately changed half the water in hopes of saving him. I added some more MelaFix and sat there. He was now stuck to the intake of my filter. I turned off the filter and he floated across the tank. I could see his gills move every 6 or 7 seconds, but it was obvious that he was in great pain. I then scooped him up in the net, in which he didn't move one bit. This is incredible because he always flales around like a chicken with his head cut off. He just set there and didn't move one bit. I was so sad. I could then see further sores on his side, looked like dark spots. I placed him in a bucket with a few gallons of water in it. He lay on his side, not moving at all, taking a breath every 15 or 20 seconds. I decided to end his life to end the pain he must have been going through. I won't go into great detail, but I chose to use a large rock behind my house. It was a very hard and sad thing to do. I couldn't imagine myself crushing the one I had spent so much time with. I now have an empty tank, that I had been staring at for awhile. I hope those of you who have never had to kill your fish ever have to, and for those who have, I hope you don't have to do it anymore. It's incredibly sad, and it made me feel guilty, like I was the one responsible for him and the only one who had a chance to fix him. I did my best though, I just miss him. I may try my luck with another, but not for awhile. I think I may clean out the tank and arrange it differently. Anyways, I just wanted to type this to tell some poeple who would understand how I feel. Thanks for reading,

John
 
It is sad

Awww sorry John,

I know what you mean. I am new to the 'fish' world, having inherited my brothers fish and being clueless as to their care. I lost one the otherday too. I felt so bad. I put it in a bucket to try to help it out but it kept floating vertically with its nose almost above the water. It wasnt the oscar's though it was a huge silver fish with red fins. He was one of the smaller ones about 10 inches or so. Anyway, I tried keeping him straight by holding him in position underwater, my hands turned to prunes and I left him a night light, air and food. I awoke at 2am to check on him and he looked worse, now he was floating belly up, I knew the end was near. I didnt think of killing him though but felt bad, like I was losing a member of the family again. weird actually. My brother had him for years. Anyway, he died and I too felt bad. So
I thought I'd try to console you by telling you about my ecperience. Hope it brought a smile.
Sara
 
So, so sorry i now what you feel like. :(
 
That is too bad, one of my mollies has ick, lucky to find this site. Well, I have lost fish before to Melafix. I have lost all faith in it. I did read a few posts about adding aquarium salt. Has any one used this method on a molly? I would really like to rescue this guy, my aquarium smells like a mummy from the previous use of Melafix, any way to get rid of this smell? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MF
 
Sorry bout the oscar, I always hate loosing a fish. It;s even worse when you put it down yourself, but I can assure you it was better than letting it suffer to death.

Molly farmer, start a new thread with your question in the FW nooby section. You will get better answers there, and people won't just "happen by" your question here if they have nothing to say about a dead oscar. There is also a great article in the article section about using salt to treat ich.
 
sumthin fishy said:
Sorry bout the oscar, I always hate loosing a fish. It;s even worse when you put it down yourself, but I can assure you it was better than letting it suffer to death.

Molly farmer, start a new thread with your question in the FW nooby section. You will get better answers there, and people won't just "happen by" your question here if they have nothing to say about a dead oscar. There is also a great article in the article section about using salt to treat ich.
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TY SF
 
soory too hear about your oscar i hope that i dont have too that to gobbels for a long time "its not allways a good world"
 
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I had my Oscar for 8 years along with a larg male pink convict. I was so upset when my oscar died I took my tank down and sold it in the traiding times. I donated my small fish and convict to the local pet store. I didn't have it in my heart to start over at that time. I just got back into cichlids a year and a half ago.
I didn't get an ocsar this time, it wouldn't be the same.
My main larger fish this time are going to be a Green Teror, Texas Cichlid. I also have a female Dempsey together in the 90. That is my main tank it looks like I am going to go overboard with tanks now that the other cichlids are growing up and I can't part with any of them.
I hope one of the 2 males mate with the demspey.

Anyhow, I can totaly relate and I am very sorry to hear that.
 
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