Oscar half eaten but still alive.....some advice?

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Sad, very sad. Not only is that fish going to live with sub par quality of life, but there is a least one other fish that could be experiencing a better quality of life if it was taking the space and care of that oscar.

Really should do the right thing and put that fish down.
 
Yeah, until I see a picture or video that shows me that the Oscar is actually swimming around, I say kill it.

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I'm so glad to hear how everybody is so quick to say put the fish down. I could only imagine if everyone had the same mindset as you people and put all injured pets down. Let's go ahead and extend it to all living things including humans, anytime someone has a significant amputation lets put them down so they do not have to live a sub-par quality of life.

Other than eat and look nice what other purpose does a fish have inside an aquarium? Therefore how does it have a poor quality of life if it can eat. If it was in the wild trying to survive with no tail competing for food then that is understandable but inside a fish tank alone being fed and medicated.

There are plenty of success stories of fish that have survived with out a tail and their quality of has been great.




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Jack_man_0424 said:
I'm so glad to hear how everybody is so quick to say put the fish down. I could only imagine if everyone had the same mindset as you people and put all injured pets down. Let's go ahead and extend it to all living things including humans, anytime someone has a significant amputation lets put them down so they do not have to live a sub-par quality of life.

Other than eat and look nice what other purpose does a fish have inside an aquarium? Therefore how does it have a poor quality of life if it can eat. If it was in the wild trying to survive with no tail competing for food then that is understandable but inside a fish tank alone being fed and medicated.

There are plenty of success stories of fish that have survived with out a tail and their quality of has been great.




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Fish should not be kept to just survive. Fish should be kept in a manner that they thrive.
 
If you consider that thriving, then I would have to question your abilities as a fishkeeper :thumbsdow
 
There is no reason given some time that he can't thrive and if he can't regrow his tail then adapt to his situation whatever that may be, its very shallow minded to guilt someone to kill the fish if it isn't warranted. If the fish where in distress, which it isn't, then just let it be. So it's not a show fish, to some people that's not important.


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I'd just like to say that I wish your Oscar a fast (well as fast as possible) recovery :)
 
biguebs said:
First, let me say that I'm rooting for this fish. I'll be anxious for more photo/video evidence of his recovery.

Second, I think some people need to take a step back and put this in perspective. No comparison between the fish owner suffering a serious injury/receiving treatment and this $5 oscar's situation need be made. It's a fish that has a couple seconds of memory and whose entire internal structure works differently than ours in a situation like this. It's not a human being. We lose a leg, they stop the bleeding and give us an artificial leg. Nobody is gonna give this fish a new tail, but there is nothing wrong with giving it a chance to survive on it's own.
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FACT :
Fish have memory! !!!!

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