Okay I don't want any smart *** remarks or comments. I am truly concerned so if you are not going to help me with advice or if you are not experienced with Oscar fish don't bother. I have had my Oscar fish for about ten months now, three weeks ago he was bored of his food and wouldn't eat anything so then we set up a feeder tank and we were feeding him comet goldfish for about a week then it got annoying to have upkeep on the feeder tank so we put him back on freeze dried shrimp about a week ago. Now for the past week he has been going psycho every time we walk anywhere near his/her (I think its a girl) tank. She opens her mouth to the max she shakes her body and tale (she shakes her body and tale side to side, and then she will shake her tale up and down.) making waves in her tank and splashing water out of the tank and she will back up some of the times and the other times she will back up and then swim super fast and slam into the tank with her mouth open like she is charging us. We feed her shrimp which she loves we are never mean to her, we do frequent water changes. She just recently like last month had a parasite but we gave her some medicine. I don't know why she is hating us so much. If we look at her she opens her mouth at us if we sit up (shes in our bedroom) so if we sit up out of our bed she gets mad anytime we move or look at her or come near her she gets mad and freaks out. Except if we have her food can in our hand then shes fine bc she wants her food. IDK why she is doing this its very weird. Oh sometimes she will sit on the log we have in the corner its a long behind a tree and he will sit on the log like he is using it for a chair. Or he will sit on/behind the bubble wall. One more weird thing is that he used to always sit on the right side of the tank like the right side was her side and the left side was the suckers side, but now she has switched over to the left side (idk if it matters but the right side has the heater and the left side has the filter). So somebody who has knowledge of Oscar fish please please help she is driving me crazy bc she is being so mean and trying to attack me, oh if i stick my hand in the tank she wont bite or anything she just swims away or around, its only when we are outside her tank. I tried putting a blanket over her tank to see what she would do and she was so happy her color was so dark and she was swimming around, but when i took it off she got paleish again like only her fins get pale. So somebody please help idk whats going on idk if she is nesting or if she changed or something idk...please tell me what you think





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Kimer... First, welcome to the site! Second, can you tell us about your tank please? Size, filtratin and most importantly what are your water levels like? If you can post the numbers that will help us with your problem.

My fish went through a little period like that when the other oscar I had in the tank jumped to his death. It only lasted a few days. He got all black and would freak out when we came near the tank, he splashed water everywhere, wouldn't eat. But like I said it only lasted a few days. It was a little scary for me.

If you can give us that info... hopefully we can help you out.

Brooksie

before going to fire a lot of question, i would like to show you previous
topic about something like your description..... please check it is is
something like this?????
www.oscarfishlover.com/oscar-fish-advice...ed-angry-oscar#53631

This is not unusual. Oscar sometimes see their territory as the tank and sometimes they see an area outside of the tank as theirs too and will try to defend it- this sounds like your fish. It may also be that your oscar is going mental to try to encourage you to feed her more often. Dont give in- only feed once a day what she will eat in 2 mins

just to be sure your water is ok can you test it for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate- use the bottle type-not strips