Is my Oscar dying

[TheCanuck]

Personal care did not kill him. It was clearly a parasite or something. I've been keeping fish since I was 13 I'm am 30 now. I've never had issues with fish dying prematurely. I take extremely good care of them. Don't comment if you have no clue. I was asking for advice not for your criticism. Thank you for your earlier comment.


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You can go through my threads and past tanks to realize I have a bit more than a clue. I am not bashing you, it's just a fact. Don't feed your oscar garbage like rosie reds. There are alternative live foods if you are having issues with getting them on pellets. I have marine sharks and moray eels on massivore pellets, it is quite easy.

As for the oscar, like I said. They are seriously hard to kill. You need to re-evaluate how long he was in your care and how his diet, temp, and water params were.

It could have been one feeder that killed him, yet it was still an irresponsible food to give in the first place.

Good to know none of the other fish were affected. Try switching to massivore if you have not already. Oscars are my favorite fish, sorry for your loss.

 

[Belly up]

It may not have been a feeder. Sometimes animals have internal problems no one can see. Genetics play a big part in it too. I have had dogs suddenly stop eating and end up dying on me for no apparent reason. The vets I took him to said it happens. All the blood tests, Xrays etc not withstanding, he still died. Fish do the same thing. If every thing was normal for that Oscar (the light does not count) and he had eaten feeders before then it`s pretty hard to establish cause and effect.

 

[rich4297]

You can go through my threads and past tanks to realize I have a bit more than a clue. I am not bashing you, it's just a fact. Don't feed your oscar garbage like rosie reds. There are alternative live foods if you are having issues with getting them on pellets. I have marine sharks and moray eels on massivore pellets, it is quite easy.

As for the oscar, like I said. They are seriously hard to kill. You need to re-evaluate how long he was in your care and how his diet, temp, and water params were.

It could have been one feeder that killed him, yet it was still an irresponsible food to give in the first place.

Good to know none of the other fish were affected. Try switching to massivore if you have not already. Oscars are my favorite fish, sorry for your loss.

Sorry if I took it that way. The Oscar had no problem with pellets. It was the datnoid that won't eat them but now I am determined to pellet train. No more feeders. I had to give up my last Oscar pair about four years ago when I had my daughter and got a new job. But I recently got back into the hobby and just never experienced this before. I think it was the womp womp womp that kinda rubbed me the wrong way. Thanks for your knowledge. Do you think I should treat the tank just in case. Or just watch them.


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[oscarman2003]

Sulking oscars do this

 

[TheCanuck]

Don't treat tank, just do some extra water changes and keep a close eye

Feed guppys if needed. They should be almost as common as rosies at a LFS. Convicts are a great feeder too.

Like said above, could just be genetics. But rule out those rosies!

Good Luck!

 

[petspoiler]

Sorry for the loss of your O.
It may have helped people diagnose the issue (although he was already dead), to have seen a pic of whatever was hanging out of him.

 

[elvispacman]

you couldve dissected it