severina
Fish Crazy
Well...since this post -->http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=117670 I thought my oscar was getting better....but now she's worse...and I think she might have something (contrary to what I was told in that thread) and has passed it on to a recently purchased oscar, because he's getting the same symptoms (skin peeling off, or they are scratching, or something I don't know)
I had planned to put them in my 55 gallon tank together but I've had a crazy nitrite spike in that tank along with a broken heater which killed off the bacteria, so now its basically recycling...so now the poor babies are stuck in a 5 gallon tank together (only to avoid the nitrites!) which, of course, gave the 5 gallon a crazy ammonia spike (also brought on by the antibotitics used to keep them from getting an infection) which I've been doing a water change for.
I'm in tears. Tell me what I'm dealing with and what to do about it.
Someone told me in another thread how long term use of salt in the water can have a really bad affect on the fish (which I had no clue about until today) so could this be the problem? Is it because they are in such a small tank right now that they are scraping up against the clips of the heater or the filter on accident? (I felt the clips to the heater...something I haven't done til now...and they seem like they should be filed down)
I'm really not trying to start a fight here...but I really don't want anyone to post who's just going to lecture me about the size of the tank they are in now or tell me the solution is to return the fish to the store (like I've seen in alot of other posts on this forum.) Please just help me and my fish.
After googling and googling skin issues with fish...I think I've found out what's going on....
About ammonia:
"Fish response to sub lethal levels are similar to those to any other form of irritation, i.e. flashing and rubbing against solid objects. Without water testing it would be very easy to wrongly conclude the fish had a parasite problem."
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=117670 I thought my oscar was getting better....but now she's worse...and I think she might have something (contrary to what I was told in that thread) and has passed it on to a recently purchased oscar, because he's getting the same symptoms (skin peeling off, or they are scratching, or something I don't know)I had planned to put them in my 55 gallon tank together but I've had a crazy nitrite spike in that tank along with a broken heater which killed off the bacteria, so now its basically recycling...so now the poor babies are stuck in a 5 gallon tank together (only to avoid the nitrites!) which, of course, gave the 5 gallon a crazy ammonia spike (also brought on by the antibotitics used to keep them from getting an infection) which I've been doing a water change for.
I'm in tears. Tell me what I'm dealing with and what to do about it.
Someone told me in another thread how long term use of salt in the water can have a really bad affect on the fish (which I had no clue about until today) so could this be the problem? Is it because they are in such a small tank right now that they are scraping up against the clips of the heater or the filter on accident? (I felt the clips to the heater...something I haven't done til now...and they seem like they should be filed down)
I'm really not trying to start a fight here...but I really don't want anyone to post who's just going to lecture me about the size of the tank they are in now or tell me the solution is to return the fish to the store (like I've seen in alot of other posts on this forum.) Please just help me and my fish.
After googling and googling skin issues with fish...I think I've found out what's going on....
About ammonia:
"Fish response to sub lethal levels are similar to those to any other form of irritation, i.e. flashing and rubbing against solid objects. Without water testing it would be very easy to wrongly conclude the fish had a parasite problem."
