Hi all, new to the site and forums!!! New to the O family too. George our tigar oscar who has been active up unil four days ago, started hiding and not eating so we found this site and found very helpful info and found what we though looked liked he had an internal parasite due to his stomach was sunken in. We have put him in a tank by himself and medicated him with Parasite Clear by Jungle going by the directions on the box and their website. He has been in the medical tank for almost 48 hours now. Today he did nip at some bloodworms. Has anyone else had this problem with their O's and if so how long did they wait until putting the O back into the regular tank? We love our O's and dont want George to die! Any advice would be appreciated!!! Thanks in advance!!

welcome site

now in order to help you out there are a couple of questions that will help us in helping you. fistly how big is your tank? what kind of fitration are you using? did you cycle your tank before putting your oscar in? what are your water readings(ammonia nitrites nitrates ph and water temp)? how long have you had your oscar? and what kind of tankmates are in the tank?

if youcan answer these questions for us it will help in narrowing down what course of action to take to help george get better.

Welcome to the site. Do you have a water test kit? If so, what are the water parameters of the tank you took him out of? What size was the tank? What filtration do you have? And do you have any pictures of George sick?

Sorry Necro, didn't mean to step on your toes!

The tank was cycled before we added the fish, at this time we have 3 O's in a 55 gal tank and no this is not where they will stay, at this time they are only about 3in each and will be moved to a 400 gal tank when we get moved. I do not have a pic at this time to post as my 2 year old son thought it would be funny to flush my camera in the toilet. The water conditons are:

nitrate: 0
nitrite: 0
chlorine: 0
alkalinity: 115
ph: 7.2
temp: 78 deg.

could you recheck your nitrate reading? in an established fish tank it is virtually impossible to have a zero nitrate reading. also one that you are missing is the ammonia level. this is one of the most important since it is the most toxic to oscars.

typo on my part, sorry!

nitrate: 10
ammonia: 1ppm

Ok Georges tank needs a water change... Your ammonia needs to be 0, your nitrate and nitrite are ok. I would do a good gravel vac, and about 50% water change. What filters are you running?

welcome aboard... you have been covered.
but please watch out with those two kids in the
avatar.... they could cause more trouble putting
anyting in the tank

no kidding..... cute kids you've got there.

Thanks everyone for the replies, I have good news to report, George is back in the regular tank doing good, back to his normal self, eating well and fighting for his fair share of the bloodworms when they are fed them!!! Thanks again everyone!!!!

I am so glad that things worked out well for you!