OMG HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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At approximately 5am this morning my 10 inch oscar took a flying leap out the back of my 55 where the filter meets the top. he flopped around in the dust for about 10 minutes whilst i frantically grabbed him with a wet towel. I had to go to work, so i could not stay home to check on him. i come home and find the outer layer of his right eye is torn (he seems able to see fine thought), and he is covered in the dust still. I cannot get him to let me get much of it of of him. he has a few minor scrapes and scratches, but the main problems are his eye and the dust. what do I do? I've never in all my years of fishkeeping had a fish completely jump tank like this (other than bettas and the one time my first oscar jumped from a 10 gallon he was in into the 29 hex that held his food fishes...lol). what can i do to save his eye? what meds do I use?

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i put in the melafix and immediately one of his wounds changed from a dark grey color to a bright clean looking white (on a black oscar). he is more active since i put the melafix in and he seems to be shedding a bit of the stuck-on dust. he is looking around more and seems genuinely happier. his overall color brightened and his other wounds are turning the clean color of white (not fungus, the fresh oscar wound white seen by those who have seen oscars hurt their stubborn selves). he also seens to be breathing a little better (the fact that i reached in and petted him while pulling off some gunk helped too...he was happy for the attention).
 

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(other than bettas and the one time my first oscar jumped from a 10 gallon he was in into the 29 hex that held his food fishes...lol
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This story is awesome!! :)

I'll be getting a new larger tank very soon, and I was thinking about what to do with it. It's been lake walawi cichlids, but now I've changed my mind. I'm going for an oscar for sure.

Thanks a lot, and I hope your little guy gets better.
 

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my oscars are the joy of my fish collection. they have such character and personality. if you run enough filtration you too can house 2 oscars in a 55 gallon tank. as you can see i run about 110 gallons of filtration in the tank (and another 60 gallon air stone going behind the canister too...lol). my guy seems alot happier with his meds. alot calmer, and the worry lines are off of his face. i am gonna go check opn him. glad i could help Geoff
 

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well, for todays update, the oscar's eye is about 90% better. it looks alomost normal. i figure another 2 days and he will be fine. he seems to have damaged about the last 1/8 inch of his tailfin and it is pretty much rotting away to the thin bones underneath. it is not spreading farther onto his tail or anything, and he seems to be able to move fine, it must have been damaged in the jump.
 

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