Will this oscar recover?

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Here is my 4th or 5th thread related to this new tank I got. The oscar that is in the tank has a pretty bad case of hole in the head disease. I'm sure it's from the bad water quality having 2 pacu and an oscar in a 75. I have some pictures here to show how bad he looks. However, he is pretty active. He always comes up to the glass whenever I walk by the tank, and when I dropped some pellets in he almost jumped out of the water to get them. I am thinking about keeping this guy. Even though he is a little ugly, I think he is cool.

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If like you say is active and eating then I see no reason why it won't recover with some TLC
 
I think he can recover. Keep him. Sometimes the ones that are down and out grow on you. That's why I bought my one rbp. He has a deformed pec fin and blind in one eye.
 
I'm truly amazed at how this tank functions. The bigger pacu is almost like a father to the smaller one. When I first put them in the tank, they were kind of laying on their sides and not swimming too much, and the bigger one started pushing the small one around until it started swimming. The old owner said that it had even pushed the smaller one to the surface for food when they were smaller. I really wish I could keep all three of these fish, but the tank is just too small.
 
Why not just upgrade? A plywood tank isn't very expensive to build.
 
I would upgrade. Problem is that I go to college in 6 months and will be home for like 2 weeks the whole school year since I'm going to University of North Carolina Wilmington. My parents don't want to be taking care of 2 pacu when I'm gone. They barely want to care for the fish I have in my other tanks.
 
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