i woke up this morning to find that the oscars anus hasnt closed proply, the hole is still open and exposed, i tryed to take a photo, to give u some idea..

he or she is in good condition, looks very healthy ,seems to be moving around pretty slow of late,seems to be very angluar in movement lately, but still very alert when it come to feeding , he/she will dart across the tank pretty fast..

Cannot say I have seen this before. It sort of looks like a female sexual organ, apart from its not sticking out. I personally cannot think of anything that you could do for the moment apart from wait and see what happens, hopefully it has nothing to worry about. Is the fish eating okay?

OFL wrote:


he/she still acts normal...hes skin/scales are in good nic, no weird patterns, he eats and all..

I suspect that you have nothing to worry about. Don't get stressed, just keep an eye on things and hopefully everything will go back to normal. A fish that still wants to eat as not at death's door, put it that way.

elvis were you not the one that broke the light in your fish tank the other day? did your fish eat a piece of glass?

Win wrote:

nope that wasn't me.. No glass diet here..

okay i remember somebody did and i couldnt for the life of me remember who it was.

My Oscar had the same thing for some time, but I think it was due to too much food eaten in too little time!
He pooped like a horse!
It went away in about 2 weeks, and I never saw it sice that time...
I was feeding ciclid sticks at the time.
My O refused to eat those after some time and I switched to mealworms.
These seem to be better digested then those sticks.

Noddy wrote:


i hope its as simple as that..cheers

Keep a close eye on things, maybe he is a bit bunged up. Try feeding peas

have you got another large fish in with your oscar ??he might have been raped LOL

LOL WOW