MFK - My oscar can't breath help

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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.

1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.

2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.

3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)

4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.

5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.

We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.

While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.

Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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MFK - My oscar can't breath help

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http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... reath-help!!!!

If anyone can help it'd be you guys.
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Post by FADE2BLACK_1973 »

It does look like an injury to the bottom of the gills or maybe something eating his flesh from either parasites or a bad bacterial disease. Really hard to tell from the pic. This is something that I have never seen in any of my fishes over the 24 years in the fishkeeping hobby. Maybe someone else could give something better then me.
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Sure didn't give much to go on.
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i know its hard to take a picture of a fish, but does your camera or phone have a "burst shot" mode? where it will take a few quick pictures of a moving object? if not hopefully you can try to get a more in focus shot so someone can help. or try google images for "gill parasite" or something that describes what your fish has and find a similar picture to link to us
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jus85411 wrote:i know its hard to take a picture of a fish, but does your camera or phone have a "burst shot" mode? where it will take a few quick pictures of a moving object? if not hopefully you can try to get a more in focus shot so someone can help. or try google images for "gill parasite" or something that describes what your fish has and find a similar picture to link to us
I don't think it's actually the OP's fish. I think he was just sharing the link with us.
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yeah just asking incase he was a part of their community as well, just under a different handle(edit: and country) :lol: i didnt notice locations right away
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Lol. Well hopefully someone can help that guy. People on that site probably aren't going to know what to suggest.
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I wonder if it could be a smaller piscivorous fish doing that.
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Possibly. Without them giving more info to go on, it's hard for anyone to help.
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