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Posted	depressed oscars
10-08-2006 14:42 by Bruce	Hi guys, i think that my oscars are depressed. I found my black oscar hovering at the bottom and swimming real slowly around the tank. I fed it's favourite food, mealworms and prawns. It's a bit more active now. but now the other oscar is doing the same thing. i don't think that it is ill. Just depressed. Any advice.
10-08-2006 14:46 by Malawimad	I've heard anti depressents crushed up and thrown in works Bruce...... Only joking mate, Is the tank over crowded?
10-08-2006 14:49 by Bruce	Yeah it is, but i'm taking the pacus to sheffield aquatics tomorrow.
10-08-2006 14:55 by paul stevens	My green terror just killed my albino oscar..
10-08-2006 15:33 by wayne	MAYBE YOUR NEXT PAUL
10-08-2006 16:28 by telboy	got some nice tilapia butterkoferi going very cheap paul,do a right turn in ya tank mate!!!
11-08-2006 09:15 by Bruce	The oscars have become much more active now i've introduced my new red hook to the tank, but they still hover above the bottom sometimes.
11-08-2006 15:10 by Danny Boy	what other fish are in the tank?
11-08-2006 15:14 by von	the tank is a rio 300. there is (these are aproximate sizes.) 7x silver dollar 3-5 inch 1x fiemouth 3 inch 1x parrot cichlid 2 1/2 inch 1x gold severum 4 inch 2x oscar 6 inch 2x hoplo catfish 3-4 inch 1x pleco 2 1/2 ich 2x ancistrus 1 1/2 - 2 inch well overstocked, doesn't seem to take much notice of advice to cut down on fish. the oscars are probably fed up being crammed in
11-08-2006 15:19 by Danny Boy	yep i would probably guess at nitrate poisoning. tried to give bruce advice in the past but falls on deaf ears.
11-08-2006 17:08 by Bruce	I checked the nitrite It's zero, and all other water water tests came back fine, but today they are much happyer. I got rid of the pacu's and i am relocateing the parrot and severum into my 100 gallon tank. It must have just been from stress and been crowded. That or because every thing getting in it's territory.
11-08-2006 17:54 by von	hope they perk up soon, i'm sure they will
11-08-2006 18:17 by Bruce	Here is the red hook metynnis.
11-08-2006 19:30 by heros hero	Just a small question. You have a 100 gallon tank and you keep all those fish in a 300 litre rio?
11-08-2006 21:10 by Bruce	Yeah thats because the other is full as well, i'm taking another 5 fish to sheffield aquatics this weekend.
21-08-2006 04:23 by baldcowboy	I have a question too, I bought 4 oscars last week, two tigers and two albinos. one albino sits in the corner at the bottom or behind one of the filters. they are still young now at only about 1 3/4 - 2 1/4 inches long. the other three are playfull and eat very well. Any ideas?
21-08-2006 06:09 by wayne	being bullied possibly isit the smallest one?
22-08-2006 02:02 by baldcowboy	no one tiger is smaller by a quarter of an inch
22-08-2006 02:22 by baldcowboy	is there any thing I can do for it?
22-08-2006 03:38 by baldcowboy	this one died tonight but the other three thrive on. Will the smaller one now take on the role of the "runt" ?

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