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smitty911

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My tank is falling apart.:irked:
I recently moved my Oscar and red devil into another grow out 55 that i had running and it has been nothing but problems.

My Oscar has developed Hole in the head disease.
They are constantly fighting(which never happened before).
My Red devil is half the size of my Oscar but keeps my Oscar backed all the way in the top corner of the tank.
I have sand on the bottom and is impossible to keep clean.
The water stays cloudy all the time.

Im starting to get sick of this.
Its becoming more of a job than a hobby. Its so overwhelming i dont know what to do first.

First, How to get rid of Hole in the Head?

(and please dont say buy a bigger tank or buy another tank unless you plan on sending me the money)
 
im sure ure lfs has some med for hith just ask
 
Head in the disease, you go to petstore and buy a small bottle of liquid that treats hole in the head disease.
My previous tank has sand on the bottom, and after a couple of months, the water stay cloudy in all times, impossible to clean and millions of microworms, only way is to get rid of them and change back to gravel. Or maybe a polish pad might help.
 
For hole in the head, what you want to do is a 5 gallon water change every day. Pull the carbon from your filters, and add one tablespoon of aquarium salt for every 5 gallons of water. It worked perfectly for me, my oscar looked horrible when I got him and I made all his HITH go away.
 
lost of water changes will help HITH, do 35% w/c daily. its not impossible to clean sand. use a siphon and just stick it in the sand and it will clean it. the easiest way is with a python system.

what type of filter do you have on the 55g and how big are the fish? the red devil will be mush more aggressive than the oscar, that's why it's pinned in the corner. also if you dont plan on upgrading the fish to accomidate their size, take them back or sell them. a 55g is not a proper tank for either fish. see, no money required
 
Don't waste your money on meds for HITH. Just do what has already been advised and you'll at least be able to stop, if not correct the HITH. :)

The new tank you moved them to, how long has it been running? It almost sounds like its going through a minicycle with it being cloudy so much. Perhaps you need to cut back on the feeding as well. Not sure what your regiment is.

New tank, new environment, new attitude. It often happens when you move fish that get along in one tank to another tank.

You already know the most obvious answer to the question. You REALLY DO need a larger tank. Or AT least split them up. You moved them from one tank to another, so that means you have more than one tank. Seems the simpliest thing to do in your instance.

As Sean mentioned, you might want to up your filtration as well. Oscars are pretty messy to begin with. Oy!

Hope that helps and that you get things back in order!!

P_p
 
55g for Oscars + Red Devil = BAD!

A 55g is far too small for an Oscar to live for life. (Believe me, I've experienced it first hand) Not to mention when RDs get large, they aren't compatible with hardly anything. I'd personally get rid of your Oscars unless you can afford a bigger tank. (Craigslist!) And as far as the sand goes, mixing the dirtiest fish with something that's not very pourous spells disaster.
 
I have an Oscar in a tank that uses sand as a substrate, its no harder to clean then gravel. If you have a syphon, a python seems to work best just go about it the way you clean gravel, the cheaper syphons dont seem to work as good at least for me anyways, howwever you can still use them as long as the sand isnt to fine, I have no problem with pool fitler sand. Here is an old thread that explains cleaning sand a little better....
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=255269&highlight=cleaning+sand+substrate
 
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