New Oscar Might Be Sick?

HITH is more of a mineral difficiency and seeing as he hasnt been in your tank that long i doubt it would be HITH.

Honestly, take the fish back and look for smaller specimens, your tank is just too small to keep an oscar.
 
i called the store i bought him from and they said they had an oscar doing that a die the day before i bought this one so it may have come home with him from the petstore
 
You need to take the Oscar back, right now, its probably suffering ammonia and nitrIte poisoning, due to the fact that the tank isnt fully cycled, at 2 weeks its likely at a high ammonia level with nitrIte rising steadily. You ask why the plec isnt behaving that way, because its been slowly acclimatising to the bad water quality, the Oscar not being used to it, is suffering. In the long run it will kill or seriously damage the health of both fish.

In either case, a 30g long tank is NOT large enough for an Oscar, it maybe small now, but it wont be in 4/5 month time, an Oscar, feed properly and kept in good conditions, will grow 1"+ a month! It needs to be in a minimum of a 4ft long, 18" wide, 18" deep tank for long term health and growth.

Please, whilst you may like this fish, you clearly didnt research before buying (which is sadly often the case) and for the sake or the Oscar (and plec long term) return him, damage is more likely already caused, the least you can do now is make things easier for it.
 
You need to take the Oscar back, right now, its probably suffering ammonia and nitrIte poisoning, due to the fact that the tank isnt fully cycled, at 2 weeks its likely at a high ammonia level with nitrIte rising steadily. You ask why the plec isnt behaving that way, because its been slowly acclimatising to the bad water quality, the Oscar not being used to it, is suffering. In the long run it will kill or seriously damage the health of both fish.

In either case, a 30g long tank is NOT large enough for an Oscar, it maybe small now, but it wont be in 4/5 month time, an Oscar, feed properly and kept in good conditions, will grow 1"+ a month! It needs to be in a minimum of a 4ft long, 18" wide, 18" deep tank for long term health and growth.

Please, whilst you may like this fish, you clearly didnt research before buying (which is sadly often the case) and for the sake or the Oscar (and plec long term) return him, damage is more likely already caused, the least you can do now is make things easier for it.

QFT
 
Ditto what minx said - uncycled too small tank - take the oscar AND the pleco back - cycle the tnak properly and then get suitable fish.
 
i took the oscar back but i could not return the pleco, and also i found the original lid for this tank, it orginaly came with a screen one, and it is 45 gallons,
 

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