Help with Oscar

[johnson5585]

Hey Everyone,
One of my O's developed something over night. Looks like fight oght injuries to me but thought I would get your opinions. Here is some basic history.

-No flux in water temp
-No change in diet- Diet consists of Hikari Gold pellets, Omega One Super Color flakes and occasionally beef heart food.
-Water parameters are good will do another check in a few minnd post numbers.
-Problem nit visible last night at this time, just noticed today.
-Does have problems with the GT Gold Saum. (GT picks a lot)

Here are some pics. Looks like loss of scales fungus etc.

 

[gran charismo]

seperate him from the GT and add some melafix

keep an eye on it looks like fight damage as he also has torn fins

good luck

 

[johnson5585]

This was my initial thought. But wanted another opinion. Did a water test just for the sake of doing so. Fed about three hours ago and today is water change day.

PH 6.8
NO2 0-.1
NO3 10-15
Ammonia 0

 

[gran charismo]

oscars are a tough little fish even when small, given the chance he should heal up in a week or so

 

[johnson5585]

Yes the o's are moving into their own tank as soon as it arrives and cycles. Going to use half of the water form current tank to try and speed up cycle process.

 

[johnson5585]

Another question. Do the Oscars fins regenerate or once they are torn or damaged will they stay that way?

 

[zorba4884]

Yeah his fins will back to normal in no time, min healed in 3

 

[Dmaan.]

it looks like your oscar just scrapped itself on some driftwood or something.
my oscar used to get some pretty bad scratches at night when the lights were off from this.

my oscar runs my 120 but tonight, my barred midas got her pretty bad.
LIGHTS WERE OFF!

 

[TwistedPenguin]

Yes the o's are moving into their own tank as soon as it arrives and cycles. Going to use half of the water form current tank to try and speed up cycle process.

It certainly does look as though the GT has been picking at him. Fish use a sucking motion with their mouths to eat and 'bite' other fish and can suck scales right off. The little Oscar should heal right up with clean water.
Your good bacteria isn't in the water, it's in your filter media (like your sponge/stones inside the filter). So using water from a cycled tank won't cycle the new tank. You'll have to jumpstart the new tank with filter media from the current tank and keep an eye on water parameters.

 

[johnson5585]

Got some Melafix as suggested and is working great. I will be keeping a bottle of this on hand all the time. Saw a major improvement just over night after the first dose. On day three now of treatment. Thanks for the input.