Well as many of u know my o has been sick for quite some time now going on 4 months and he is not getting any better despite all treatment i can come up with so im afraid that its tuberculosis I have ben doing research on this and it identifies with him so im afraid im going to have to have bent take care of him though I dont want to but think its best fot him he is still eating somewhat but isnt respondong to any treatment weather it be meds or just plain water changes

I am so sorry Hun... I am sure you all will do what is best for him. Keep your chin up.

I just dont know what to do and no one can seem to come up with what is wrong tb is rare but it certianly sounds like what he has i have asked every fish store arround here and some friends and no one can come up with anything

I think one of my O's had fish TB a couple months ago. I got some good advice from sum1 and my oscar recovered and is healthy again. I was advised to treat with vitamin b complex, and treat for bacteria. And so i did. i got some liquid vitamin b complex from walgreens and soaked pellets in it to feed along with adding about a dozen drops to my 100 gal. i also bought bacteria medicine i think it was tetracytomine , ill check though. just followed the directions and did a four dose treatment cycle. i also added a couple tablespoons of fresh water aquarium salt as well. i had a post a while back titled 'sick baby oscars help plz' if you search you may find it.
good luck hope this helps!

if you are still hoping it can recover, try the last ditch with methylene blue
in a bucket. put it there for about an hour before putting it back to his tank.
that is what people usually do for highly infected fishes.

use tank water dosed with the substance as prescribe in the label.

Good luck in deciding what's best.
And Paul, congratz on the 5000th post!Keep it up!

PAUL wrote:


X2. as a last ditched effort its not a bad one. met blue is pretty good at killing most parasites if not all. its worth a try.

im going to try the tertacyc and vit first then if that don't work ill give the methylene blue a try id like to save him if i can this is really upsetting me more so because i dont know whats wrong and despite every treatment no success

Good luck with the treatment i really hope he recovers.

well the decition has been made after houres of deliberation i have decided to have bent put him down he isnt geting any better and he seems to be suffering hes shakeing and stauing at the top of the tank by his filters no sighs of improvement I talked with my fish guru and he said there is non hope whatever it is is eating him literaly and we tryed everything for everything so fairwell brutice we love u and ill miss u

ouch!!!!! sorry to hear that...but if you feel that is the best
to end his suffering... so be it....

no i dont think its the best i want to cure him but sometimes u just have to let go i have spent alot on treatments for him and meds and i dont know what else there is