Please help my sick oscar

[Beano]

Hi,

Recently purchased baby albino red oscar. Seems today he has a 3mm
piece of red poo hanging out of his bum - and it appears to bleed (some
kind of redish brown stuff leaking slowly into the water). I've since
put him in a smaller bucket with some malachite green and salt. He's
about 3 inches long. Since catching him, whatever was hanging out of
his bum has either returned to the inside of him or fallen off, because
I can't see it anymore.

Since putting him in the bucket, i've noticed that he is on a slant
with tail is pointing toward the ceiling, and when he's not actively
swimming, the tail seems to float him to the surface of the water.

Is he constipated? Do I need epsom salts? What is the dose?

Please help him. He swims so slowly and is not excited to see me like
he used to be.

[Beano]

Still not excited to see me but after dosing him with some epsom salts,
he did eventually get a very big poo hanging from him - the end was
reddy-brown like what I originally saw which could have been some
undigested food - I suspect i have overfed the poor little guy.

Anyway, he has a long trail of poop... hopefully I'll get an easter
resurrection miracle, but I'm not holding onto too much hope for the
little one. Lesson well learnt - DON'T OVERFEED!

[Beano]

Still not excited to see me but after dosing him with some epsom salts,
he did eventually get a very big poo hanging from him - the end was
reddy-brown like what I originally saw which could have been some
undigested food - I suspect i have overfed the poor little guy.

Anyway, he has a long trail of poop... hopefully I'll get an easter
resurrection miracle, but I'm not holding onto too much hope for the
little one. Lesson well learnt - DON'T OVERFEED!

[Koi-Lo]

"Beano" > wrote in message
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> Still not excited to see me but after dosing him with some epsom salts,
> he did eventually get a very big poo hanging from him - the end was
> reddy-brown like what I originally saw which could have been some
> undigested food - I suspect i have overfed the poor little guy.
>
> Anyway, he has a long trail of poop... hopefully I'll get an easter
> resurrection miracle, but I'm not holding onto too much hope for the
> little one. Lesson well learnt - DON'T OVERFEED!
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Or feed more often and *less* at eat feeding.
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[Beano]

It was truly an accident - I was trying to accustom my current oscar to
the newbie, so I was trying to feed the current oscar larger pellets
and the smaller one the baby pellets I already had - he was eating
both! Too much food. I guess I was trying to keep the old oscar fed
so he wouldn't be such a bully.

[Koi-Lo]

"Beano" > wrote in message
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> It was truly an accident - I was trying to accustom my current oscar to
> the newbie, so I was trying to feed the current oscar larger pellets
> and the smaller one the baby pellets I already had - he was eating
> both! Too much food. I guess I was trying to keep the old oscar fed
> so he wouldn't be such a bully.
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You have two Oscars? How large is your tank?
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[Beano]

it's a 65 gal. Got overkill on the filter though - filter is big
enough for a much larger tank.

[Koi-Lo]

"Beano" > wrote in message
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> it's a 65 gal. Got overkill on the filter though - filter is big
> enough for a much larger tank.
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It's not just the filter. You'll soon need a divider to keep them apart.
Two adult Oscars are not likely to get along in such a small (for Oscars)
tank.
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[Altum]

Koi-Lo wrote:

> It's not just the filter. You'll soon need a divider to keep them
> apart. Two adult Oscars are not likely to get along in such a small (for
> Oscars) tank.

Unless it's a boy and a girl. Then Beano might be trying to find homes
for a lot of baby oscars. ;-)

"Oscar love" (to the tune of of Puppy Love...)

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[Nikki]

"Altum" > wrote in message
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> Koi-Lo wrote:
>
>> It's not just the filter. You'll soon need a divider to keep them apart.
>> Two adult Oscars are not likely to get along in such a small (for Oscars)
>> tank.
>
> Unless it's a boy and a girl. Then Beano might be trying to find homes
> for a lot of baby oscars. ;-)
>
> "Oscar love" (to the tune of of Puppy Love...)
>
> --
> Put the word aquaria in the subject to reply.
> Did you read the FAQ? http://faq.thekrib.com

i had two oscars who lived in a 55 for some time then were moved to a tank a
bit bigger but got along pretty good no cat fights that we ever seen. feed
them well
Nik

[Beano]

Unforutnately I think I've tried too late - the older one is getting to
be "adolescent" oscar age and was quite unimpressed when I put another
oscar in HIS space.

[Frank]

Beano wrote,
> he did eventually get a very big poo hanging from him - the end was
>reddy-brown like what I originally saw which could have been some
>undigested food ............

Also could be camallanus worms (red worms). Make sure nothing is moving
within the fish waste - if so, treat with Fluke-Tabs......... Frank

[Beano]

Thanks Frank - I didn't see anything moving, but the initial part of
the poo was red, and they did look kind of worm-like, but when it came
out the red part just sort of broke off into pieces, not strings or
anything - I think it could have been undigested large protein pellets
- I'm surprised he even ate those, the older oscar used to spit them
out when he was younger!

Anyway, the little one survives another day! He might just make it
afterall. I'm thinking of changing it's name from Buddy to Lucky...

[Beano]

HE LIVES!!! yay!

Seems very happy now. Fins are growing back really fast (the other
oscar bashed him). Got a tank divider in at the moment because he's a
little frightened of the other oscar, so I'm giving him a confidence
build...

[Koi-Lo]

"Beano" > wrote in message
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> HE LIVES!!! yay!
>
> Seems very happy now. Fins are growing back really fast (the other
> oscar bashed him). Got a tank divider in at the moment because he's a
> little frightened of the other oscar, so I'm giving him a confidence
> build...
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Good to hear! :-))
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