Oscar fish mouth stuck open

It may still be open from him swallowing the pleco. I d give it some time and keep an eye on him. Oscar fish is gasping with her mouth stuck open and cant seem to close it and her is bulging.

Even though the tail is now gone from view doesn t mean the fish is all the way down.

Oscar fish His mouth being stuck open and not allowing him to eat during feedings will kill him but there shouldn t be a problem if he can still eat. By nancy 4 years ago on tropical fish. Oscar s mouth stuck wide open. My neon tetra seems to have its mouth stuck open It swims around but c Betta with mouth stuck open My fish s mouth is stuck open. By doctorj 6 years ago on tropical fish. My fish s mouth is stuck open. Oscar s mouth stuck wide open.

Why is my danio s mouth stuck open 28l tank 2 other danios 2 plat Growth on neon tetra mouth My fish has its mouth stuck open. Ok so my long standing resident oscar decided my new f1 texas looked good enough to eat. Now its seems to be stuck in his mouth i did net him and hold him in a towel to see if i could remove the fish gently but it was wedged in there good. I didn t want to put too much pressure on in case i harmed oscar. At least for 7-8 hours now my aquarium fish s mouth is stuck wide open. It is still swimming around but unable to eat. I don t think it will live very long if this continues.

I just removed him from the tank to b on his own. Any advice on how i can help He hasn t been able to close his mouth for almost two weeks and he is getting very skinny compared to my other one. I pulled him out of the water and tried to see if there was something stuck in his mouth and i am not able to find anything. I was physically able to push his mouth shut but it just comes back open. He desperately tries to eat but he just can t keep any of his food down. Long story short i came home from work today to see that my oscar had tried to eat my algie eater but had it stuck in his throat sort of floating on his side in one spot still alive so i caught him and took tweezers to pull it out of his throat was in there quite a ways i successfully Lockjaw seems a bit of a catchall term for a fish that either cannot open or close the mouth. Rarely a fish might get tetanus which is what we usually think of with the term lockjaw but if that s the case there is nothing to be done and the fish will die.