Help My Tiger Oscar Please

[Duchesss]

She seems to be having a hard time breathing as well now , I’m headed to the store now for salt and to find prazipro…

 

[quikv6]

Ensure that you have adequate (or more than adequate) surface agitation for oxygenation. I don't know what filter(S) you are using, but you can always add an extra airstone or two to the tank to assist. This is good practice when adding any medication.

Please give us some info on the tank:

- How long set up, size, filtration, actual parameters, water change schedule, etc. The more info the better, as it may point to a smoking gun.

With that said, PraziPro, salt, extra airstone, and very frequent water changes (provided your tap and tank are the same) can be very helpful.

 

[shern]

It's not ick, that's for sure. Ick is many small white dots all over the fish.
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Not my picture thank Google.

I would say it's fungal but the eye thing has me unsure. Columanris may be the case. If so you have to tear down the tank and bleach everything to kill it.

apologizes ive confused columnaris with epistylis, nonetheless i would be more worried about the tank's health, if possible, isolation and treatment would be best.

make shore the other tank mates arent affected

That definitely doesn't look like Columnaris. Don't break the tank down and dont bleach anything right now.

I would do salt and run a course or two of PraziPro, as I suspect Flukes of some kind. PraziPro is excellent to treat external/gill flukes.

Clean freah water can often be the best med, as well. Up your water changes. Remember to only replace the salt for the amount removed during the water change.

agree, the white substance is throwing me off though

i hope it isn't anything extremely virulent and contagious.

 

[shern]

while you're at the store, id stock up on some good general scale medicines for G+/- medications like kanamycin and maracyn.

always good to have some on hand cures for fish

 

[quikv6]

I'd like to add that it could also be Slime coat disease. (I believe it's more like a symptom than an actually disease). Slime coat disease can be caused by flukes, or also something bacterial.

To cover both bases:

1) Dose PraziPro in the water column, as we mentioned earlier. (I still think it's flukes)

2) Dose an antibiotic (like Kanaplex or Maracyn/Maracyn 2) in the food. You can just mix in a bit of the powdered med with pellets and mash a but and mix with some tank water. I prefer Maracyn 2 for a food dose.

When I dose meds in the food, I also add in Seachem Focus to bind the med with the food, and GarlicGuard, to mask any bad taste from the med. (Don't go crazy with this if you don't have those on hand....Oscars aren't exactly picky. )

PS - always remember to dechlorinate during water changes.

 

[Duchesss]

Got the salt and the prazipro but I was far too late , by the time I got back from the store she was on her side gasping for air it seemed like the her breathing got super shallow and she was gone which sucks horribly because I don’t know what her tank mate is going to go thru , I still dosed the tank and cleaned everything anything hoping her husband survives whatever took her out…

 

[quikv6]

I'm sorry to hear that.