Okay guys, I've had this oscar in a dedicated home to him for almost 5 years now. He is grown from a baby and only sharing his habitat with 2 silver dollar fish, also who have been in the tank this same period of time.
I feed him about 6 to 10 large sized hikari pellets around 5 times a week, and do 20-30% water changes once a week. He has two Emp400 HOB filters and an Ehiem canister filter. All his water parameters are clean. No amonia, no nitrites, very low nitrates (keeping an oscar tank with 0 would be nice, but i havent been able to do so).
Over the past month or so, I've noticed he was geting irreguarly larger.. I first thought overfeeding? But I'm already so careful... none the less, I cut his feeding back to 3 to 4 times a week, but the bloatedness did not go away. Then I thought maybe it was constipation? No idea... here are some photos to illustrate what I am talking about..
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Any help with what this may be would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to lose this guy. He still actively begs for food and does his general oscar-activities, which as you may know is mainly being lazy or eating.
If it is infact a tumor growing, is it fatal or merely cosmetic? Do any vets do surgeries on fish as small as Oscars? Is it even feasibly worth the cost?
I feed him about 6 to 10 large sized hikari pellets around 5 times a week, and do 20-30% water changes once a week. He has two Emp400 HOB filters and an Ehiem canister filter. All his water parameters are clean. No amonia, no nitrites, very low nitrates (keeping an oscar tank with 0 would be nice, but i havent been able to do so).
Over the past month or so, I've noticed he was geting irreguarly larger.. I first thought overfeeding? But I'm already so careful... none the less, I cut his feeding back to 3 to 4 times a week, but the bloatedness did not go away. Then I thought maybe it was constipation? No idea... here are some photos to illustrate what I am talking about..
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Any help with what this may be would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to lose this guy. He still actively begs for food and does his general oscar-activities, which as you may know is mainly being lazy or eating.
If it is infact a tumor growing, is it fatal or merely cosmetic? Do any vets do surgeries on fish as small as Oscars? Is it even feasibly worth the cost?
