My oscar lost a scale...

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OMGjimmySaidd

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Well last night before I went to my bed, and before i fell asleep I heard my oscar jump and hit the cover of the tank, i quickly turned on the light and noticed that there was a scale floating around!! >.< so my question is
Is there a way for that scale to grow back?
and
Is there a way to get my oscar to stop jumping?
Cause this happened 2 nights ago also.... >.<
 
Put him in a big enough tank, silly. Fish jump to get out of nasty water. What would happen if you kept an elephant in a garage?

The scale should grow back in about a week. In the condition yours is in, it will probably take longer.

He should be five inches or longer now. Is he?
 
hope he recovers i have a 5 inch tiger oscar and he is awesome sometimes!
 
knifegill;4085740; said:
Put him in a big enough tank, silly. Fish jump to get out of nasty water. What would happen if you kept an elephant in a garage?

The scale should grow back in about a week. In the condition yours is in, it will probably take longer.

He should be five inches or longer now. Is he?
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how do you know his water is so terrible and his tank is too small?
 
I've had my oscar catch the support on my tank while jumping out to get some food before. Took off a line of 3 or 4 scales. They all came back pretty well though. Can't even tell anything happened.
 
It'll grow back in time.

Do you keep any stuff on top of the tank? My oscars would mistake things I would leave on the glass canopy as food and jump trying to get at it.

Nothing you can do to stop a fish from jumping otherwise. My albino hit himself so hard one time he floated down to the bottom of the tank. He recovered as soon as he hit bottom and sulked in the corner of the tank the rest of the day.
 
yeah dude add some melafix and aquarium salt maybe bump the temperature up a bit and hell be just fine =D
 
yeah dude add some melafix and aquarium salt bump up the temp a tiny bit and itll be fine in no time
 
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