If the tank was bigger I'd use a Piece of plexy drilled out as a divider until I had a better solution. If you have a sick tank get the O in that. Or return the Sun to the wild.
Mike
Mike
Problems with Tiger Oscar. Any advice?
- Thread starter charles-n-charge
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I have one but I'm using it on the 30 gallon to keep the fish from eating the plants I'm trying to grow for another tank
charles-n-charge;4748924; said:
The pond will be great. I had pacus years ago and found them to be peaceful, but very jumpy especially when they started to get about 3-4" long. Sounds like you've got a plan for all your fish so forgive my overstocking comment. I forgot you did say it was a grow out tank. Someones still bullying your Oscar though. I find that if my fish know I'm watching, they act much differently then when they don't know I'm there. You may want to spend some time watching from a distance or from around the corner. When they don't think anyones around you'll find your bully.
Jc1119;4749680; said:
The culprit is the blue gill for sure, sat very still on the other side of the room watching for awhile and I suddenly heard a loud splashing from it biting the arowana and causing it to jump, it them quickly turned around to get the Oscar and scales flew. I've got a hospital tank but it is EXTREMELY small, a 1.5 gallon joke lol so that's not an option. The only place I could put it is with the water turtles but they ate the last bluegill so I can't do tar until I get rid of the turtles next Tuesday. So I'm in a pretty bad position here, and they're both going to end up in the 200 together in the long run so either way it's not to good
200 would be good but take out the pacus cause i have a 200 with a arowana,shovelnose,clown knife and 1 oscar and there doing fine
charles-n-charge;4749698; said:
You could use a large cooler or 55 gallon plastic trash can. If you changed out 40% of the water each day, you wouldn't even need a filter, especially if he's only 4". If you had a filter it would be better, but I've qt'd fish in coolers doing water changes daily with great success. If you have an airpump and an airstone it would be even better. Actually, any large plastic storage container would work.
Feed an antibacterial food and give him clean water and he should recover pretty quickly. It's secondary infections you've got to watch out for if he's missing scales. Plus a stress free environment
Mc.arowana18;4749721; said:
Have you ever had issues with the shovelnose? Cus I'm thinking about buying a TSN when the 200 is set up
Jc1119;4749760; said:
That's a great idea! I have a 20 gallon styrofome cooler that I kept from when I bought the arowana, and I also have two spare pumps that I could use to have water constantly circulating between the cooler and one of the aquariums, if that'd work?
charles-n-charge;4749781; said:
Perfect. He just needs a break from the bluegill. Should recover pretty quickly
