oscar eye problem

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Salt might help, but, I want to make it clear that I don't know what I'm talking about ;). If its breathing heavy probably a good idea to add an airstone to the tank.
 
There are already two quite long airstones in the 14g.
Seems baffling to me...
 
Well I can't explain the heavy breathing, the airstones you already have in there should be plenty.

but something that just crossed my mind, is that I see alot of MFKers say their oscars will "sulk" for a few days if they change around their decor or move tanks/etc. So this might possibly account for it just sitting at the bottom "sulking", but it breathing heavy makes me think it might be something else.
 
pics would be good, theres an oscar ive seen who has a bad eye becaquse of sum parassite when he was younger the owner healed it and now its doing fine apart from the eye being blind ofcourse, how big is it picof its old tank ect.. any sharp edged decorations in the old tank"??
 
he might just be sulking either about the injury or the change in environment. I know tiny my female sulked for a while after we got her. she was 5" at the time and was queen of her tank at the lfs. took her home to the beast who was 8" at the time and she was no longer queen, so she sulked about it.

the injury may be sybolizing a changign of the guard and your O may not like it.

keep monitoring and keep the parameters good, once the eye starts to heal put her/him back into the main tank.
 
Natural_Born_Killer;3343415; said:
just finished doing a roughly 70% wc.

don't have any photos of the injury, my fish aren't seeming very keen to be photographed at the moment.

not entirely sure how he/she got the injury, seems a bit of a mystery as i don't think he/she ran into anything.

just looks like a bursted blood vessel in the eye (similar to the ones us humans get actually).

he/she seems quite quiet at the moment just sorta chilling at the bottom. the only thing that has me worried is that he/she seems to breathing a bit more heavily than normal. mouth is sort of gasping a bit...



I had two 2inch oscars in a 30 gallon with two other cichlids and a giant gourami, they were doing just fine until one fine day i find them all beaten up in the mornin (I loved these guys!:( ). Pretty sure it was that freak cichlid I have in the tank (no one on MFK has been able to identify it so far).
Anyways, one oscar dies towards the afternoon and now i'm left with one that has pretty much the same condition as yours, it has a white covering over one of his eyes and it's been there for about 2 weeks now, I've just separated him and put him in a small tank where he won't sustain any more injuries. hopefully he'll be better or has he gone blind? If so, is it for life?
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I bet he's just stressed to the max being put into such a tiny tank with the Convicts. The worst thing you can do right now it to start salting and melafixing him. Just do extra water changes. He probably isn't going to perk up in that tank.
 
Thank you all above for your replies...

Sadly to report I came home last night to find him dead in tank...
Was really sad to find him gone, but just glad he is out of his misery.
He was buried behind my flat near a canal...
 
Qucik question..did it look like a white layer over the eye like he could barely see???also did he eat any feeders?
 
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