Help! My O got beat up pretty bad

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Petrella88

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My Oscar is a mean Mofo I recently posted a thread about him shredding the underside of my pleco while I was out/asleep so I was thinking about a Native but found a nice looking jag and figured their aggression will balence itself out but I may have just found another very very mean fish.

I got home and moved around what little things are in my tank and then fed my O and killed the lights and after acclimating the jag I added him and every once in a while Id check on how things were going and my O was nothing short of talking **** about the jag and I thought here we go the O strikes again so the O made his choice of which huge flower pot he wanted and kept harrasing the jag and when I woke up I saw the Jag in the pot and I figured he laid down the law and he did ... and also laid out a can of whoop-ass The funny thing is my O was pushing him around and shacking his fins and when they squared off the jag went and found a diff spot

My O is messed up pretty bad and I want to make sure Im taking the neccesary steps and trying to be sure Im not missing anything
1. Seperated, O is in the HOSP. tank
2. 1 WT performed then salted
3. Temp bumped to 85
4. Melafix as per instructed
5. Lights off and minimum traffic to reduce stressful sudden movement
6. ?


Before

My Avatar is also the same fish

Arrival


Hospitalized




 
Ok from the stress and the beating it took it looks as though he has a infection. Possibly columinaris(spelling?) If it were my fish i would have him in a hospital tank like you do. And i would have the temperature going up to about 83-85 degree's with lots of aeration. And i would put some table salt in there at 1tbs for every 5 gallons of water. And ASAP get some jungle labs fungus clear and if you can some methylene blue. If you can not find those meds get some maracyn and maracyn2. If you find the fungus clear and myth blue then treat him with those for at least a week or if it takes longer to heal keep it up. If you treat with the maracyns do the same treat with both for a week or longer. And use the methylene with the maracyns as well. I allways do 50% daily water changes on sick fish and add new meds and salt for the water changed. ---
 
OK now that you are reading that. The fungus clear is for the white patches on him and it also has a few different antibiotics built in to the med as well for any infection he may have from the wounds. The maracyns are antibiotics and really great ones. I use them both at the same time allways they treat different bacteria. And it is easy to make a wrong call on what bacteria a fish has, so i cover them all. And the methylene blue helps with oxygen up take and is also a mild anti-fungal med. But i use it for the oxygen part. And the table salt helps promote slime coating to heal the wounds and also helps to calm a sick and stressed fish. The high temp helps speed up the fish's metabolism and helps them recover faster and use the meds. The 50% daily water changes are to help with any ammonia problems from the uncycled hospital tank and the fact that the new fresh water helps heal as well.
 
Thank you so much I wasn't sure what else I can do and I want to do anything to give better odds very thankful

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Table salt or freshwater aquarium salt? I have API Salt I buy the big jug bc I always like to re salt on water changes
 
Well by tomorrow several people will more than likely disagree with what i have said here. But i am a medicater. When i get sick my doc gives me antibiotics and when my animals are sick and go to the vet they get antibiotics. So guess what my fish get when they are sick? Also the fish i keep are very rare and it took my years of searching to find them and long shippings. So that means most of them are sick and beat up when I get them. And I have had more fish live that got treated with antibiotics that with out. I killed 15-20 Acestrorhynchus isalinae before I converted my hard headedness twards meds being bad for fish. And since I have started using meds i now have a 5pc shoal doing great. I also killed several payara before starting to use meds and i have them now as well. Basically antibiotics are expensive, but if the fish are non replaceable and or they mean something to you treat them when they are sick.
 
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