Spot on eye

[Vengitto]

Hi everyone, just wanted to affirm my suspicions and course of action before I treat this guy. My Oscar, Tiger, was recently moved from my 55gal tank where he was being constantly harassed by his tank mate, a blood parrot, named Polly. They shared the same tank for about a year and didn't really have problems until the parrot over grew the Oscar. It got so bad I just had to move one of them. The Oscar would fight back, but the parrot just overpowers him and shoves him around the tank... I would find him some mornings with soars from where Polly had shoved him into a rock. I moved him yesterday into an isolated tank and when I woke up he looked like the pic. From what I have read here I am pretty sure its ich, but before I go out and buy meds can it be treated another way? And from the pics is that what it is?

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[coralbandit]

The spot on eye is not ich.
Clean fresh water is best med right now IMO.
What size tank is Oscar in now and was it cycled?

 

[Vengitto]

He is in a 20 gal tank for now that used to be home for my piranha, the water is cycled and tests good, zero ammonia, 7.6 pH, low nitrate/nitrite.

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[coralbandit]

Good luck.

 

[philipraposo198]

High quality food and pristine water changes. That's cloudy eye, not ich. If it gets too bad he could go blind. If it was my fish I would be doing a minimum 3 water changes of 50% or more a week to ensure perfect parameters and stable conditions. Use a digital thermometer to have very accurate temp readings.