Friday, May 8, 2009

My Oscar fish is scratching and banging itself up and has allot of dints and scratches and missing scales?

Mostly from jumping at my hand when im trying to feed it and hitting the edge on the way down will these scratches heal and do scales grow back? is there anything i can do?
Answers:
they will heal but make sure that the slime coat is good, or the fish will get sick via lack of scales for protection.
You can use a water conditioner, stress coat, as a medication for slime coat protection.
So you should get some stress coat and he will heal in no time.
My small oscars like to jump as well.
they heal fine(and regrow scales) try not to open the lid much when feeding add some salt if you feel worried
Young oscars are especially feisty, which gives this gentle giant a bad rep. They usually calm down after a year or so. The key to your oscar's health is to avoid feeders, siphon your tank once a week, use a quality food like New Life Spectrum or Haikari, and siphon your tank again. Make sure your tank is at least 55 gallons for decent growth.
Heh an Oscar fish right on! When I had mine he did the same thing you are having problems with. I'm no fish expert but personally I kept a separate aquarium with feeder fish in it and would dump about 3 or 4 in per day. He quit jumping up because I think he liked the thrill of the hunt. Also I noticed you said he was hitting his head on the inside of the aquarium from jumping down. One thing you might want to try is cutting off a length of tubing thats big enough to shoot the food/feeder fish into the water so he won't have to jump up. Maybe try rigging it to the side of the aquarium.

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