haynchinook334;2988352; said:
Which one has the HITH? I also have a Blood Parrot (another rescue) that has it pretty bad. What is the best treatment for it?
OMG they're huge
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Which one has the HITH? I also have a Blood Parrot (another rescue) that has it pretty bad. What is the best treatment for it?
I am rescuing a family members oscar as well. it has HITH bad! im curious about the above question as well. The oscars look great! sorry about your friend.
Be careful on treating them "right" immediately I rescued fish in the past from a friend in similar situation and the first fish died within two hours in my hospital tank that was clean and proper and that was after a 3 hour water mixing process i went through into a bucket with water from the orig. and slowly changing. To protect the rest of the fish i used a nother pump i had and pumped water from the sump of the wet/dry to the nasty tank and back gave it a couple days and the water lightened a bit i then slowly did water changes out of my hospital tank nearly 100 percent since no fish in there. and that slowly cleaned out the water in the nasty tank it took nearly a week and a half with daily water changes on the hospital tank.
Good work on handling them bare, I bass fish and find it quite difficult to remove the 14-22 inch bass out of the live well by hand and I'm not afraid of any nipping.
Good Luck
Good work on handling them bare, I bass fish and find it quite difficult to remove the 14-22 inch bass out of the live well by hand and I'm not afraid of any nipping.
Good Luck
nice oscars they look huge and it makes them look a lot longer and shorter then most oscars i see and have owned 2 15 inches a while back when i first started keeping fish. its good that u saved them and dude im really sry about ur buddy a good friend of mine died not to long a go 
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.....durchfalle;2990657; said:
I thought I was going to lose the pretty orange one. I kept picking her up off of her side and holding her up in the water and making her move around and then after about 6 hours or so, she started to swim on her own, now all three are doing really good. I open the blinds for them in the rooms that they are in to give them some natural light. I did lose my black shark and another gimpy fish the exact same way though. I put them in my hospital tank and they died within 25 minutes. The handling was done by my husband, and thank god for towels. we threw it over that guy and got soaked.
big_tank_boy;2991317; said:nice oscars they look huge and it makes them look a lot longer and shorter then most oscars i see and have owned 2 15 inches a while back when i first started keeping fish. its good that u saved them and dude im really sry about ur buddy a good friend of mine died not to long a go
I'm sorry for your loss too
Thanks tho. These guys are actually growing on me. I honestly never wanted an oscar, and really just wanted the tanks, but now after saving them, I find myself growing fonder. Plus all the stuff I have been reading about them makes me curious.Nice O's! Barely any HITH, which is the biggest problem with rescues and any oscars really. To treat it, all you have to do is keep you water pristine. The next two are optional, however I used them to great success. First is to salt the aquarium to reduce stress on the fish and help with healing. Second is to pull the carbon from your filters. I talked to someone who worked at the shedd aquarium for 20 years, and he said they found that the fine carbon dust was what caused most HITH. Here is my oscar when I rescued him about a month ago, and another picture of him now. He looks sooooo much better now.
