tiger oscar hole in head

[ExoticGREEN]

So today i went and pick a tiger oscar from a friend and it had hole in head. the poor thing was in a little 20 gallon with no glass tops and he told me it jump out a couple times And i wanted to know how should i treat it
and how far gone the oscar is
and will be ok to put the oscar in general population

 

[ExoticGREEN]

ttt

 

[Meowmix]

Wow that is super rough.

 

[CornBread]

No quarantine it and let him heal. Heat at 81, salt, stress coat, and at least 50 percent water changes every other day for about a week. You may want to use melavix also but only after the first two days of isolation. And after about a week or two then you may try to introduce him in the tank with others but be careful.

 

[ExoticGREEN]

today I woke up to a dead oscar

 

[Yanbbrox]

Sorry to read about the loss, as bad as the damage looked these are tough cookies, probably moving the fish stressed it out too much.

Sorry again.

 

[ExoticGREEN]

Sorry to read about the loss, as bad as the damage looked these are tough cookies, probably moving the fish stressed it out too much.

Sorry again.

When i first got it waS EATING LIKE a champ
and the holes it had look like they were geting smaller
And I tried to introduce it to my other fish after the 1 week treatment
The other fish do nothing execpt the Gt Rd and the oscar started to harass the poor thing so moved it again to another tank a 40 gal that was running just for him and treated water but this morning