Please help new oscar

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Wochoa3

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Hello,
So yesterday I just bought a gold Severum and an oscar from a lfs and brought them home floated the bags in the water and every 10 minutes dumped some of their water and added some of mine to get them used to the water. After I finally added them in they were both shy. I noticed a small cut on the oscar and didn't think much of it. After about 10-20 minutes the oscar started swimming around and everyone would just stare at him. Nobody seemed to bother the gold Severum as he is still in my tank now. After about half hour I went back to the tank to see my oscar with missing scales/tissue I got really nervous so I moved him to my sick tank which is a 10 gallon tank I have to the side he doesn't seem to be doing well and his wounds look pretty bad he's about 3-4 inches and he doesn't move much in there but I know he's breathing. Just a few minutes ago he was active but then he just went to the bottom and rested will he get better? I have taken pictures of both sides of the oscar sorry for the bad quality.


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probably he was bullied by them. he pouts as in your pic becuz he is stressed out by the fight.
i had my oscar like this before, i made a mistake by putting a small snakehead about the same size as my oscar into the same tank. lol in the morning, i noticed tht my oscar's fins are nipped off and pouting on the bottom of the tank avoiding the snakehead. i removed the snakehead, just then my oscar started to get comfortable. :) just treat his wound, he'll probably be alright.
 
A Red Texas can be a very mean fish if he has claimed the tank as his he is probably not goin to except the new oscar.
How big is your main tank?
How big are the Texas and the Terror?

The Oscar is going to hide/sulk in a new tank, they are real drama queens.
 
As far as healing up your O in the hospital tank make sure it has a fully cycled filter on it, raise the temp a couple of degrees and give him plenty of clean water (multiple water changes per week at least every other day). He will bounce back in no time. The bigger problem is of course getting him into your main tank.
 
DBLN8 said:
A Red Texas can be a very mean fish if he has claimed the tank as his he is probably not goin to except the new oscar.
How big is your main tank?
How big are the Texas and the Terror?

The Oscar is going to hide/sulk in a new tank, they are real drama queens.
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Yes now that you say that I notice that the red Texas was doing all the damage! I moved the oscar back in the tank and moved the red Texas into the hospital tank until I can sell him and get a different type of fish I put the Texas and convict into the hospital tank so that nobody would bother my oscar in my 55 g and nobody else seemed to bother him but the next morning I noticed the con had the same damage as the oscar but worse! So now I moved the con back into the 55g and nobody is bothering anyone so I think the best things was moving the red Texas alone in the 10 g until I can find a solution for him but my oscar seems to be fine now thanks for the red Texas help and to answer your question I have a 55g and a 10g and the red Texas and terror are both 3-4 inches about the same size as the oscar


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