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| I just bought one of these today. I'm glad that I looked at this site because I almost fed him goldfish flakes. He's about 2 inches right now, but I have him in a 35 gallon tank with one zigzag eel and an african dwarf frog. I'm upgrading next year.
2008-07-15 |
| ya i have a albino oscar with a lot of diffrent fish like a leporinus and a few plecos i also have a lab and a D.comp and a fiermouth in a 55 gallon tank i love my fish but im moving i have to get rido some of them but im keepin my oscar and my leporinus can some one tell me how to move with fish on a 2 day drive help some one
2008-07-05 |
| We have an ocsar that is about a year old now, got him when he was a baby. He has gone through a few tank mates. My husband likes to get him feeder fish but since his pleco friend died a few weeks, ago he will not eat anymore. He just swims around shaking his tail. Not sure why he is doing that, I hope to find out soon though. I really like him. I pet him when I do the water changes and like to switch the things I put in the tank for him to play with. He is fun to watch and will let me know when he wants my attention. I keep my tank next to the couch, so he just taps on the side when you are sitting by him until you watch what he is doing. His new toy he seems to like quite a bit is a cup, before that it was a ball. He likes to tease the cat too!
2008-06-03 |
| We absolutely love our Oscars! My boyfriend and I have an 80 gallon tank right now and we currently own five Oscars, a Convict, 2 plecos and 3 different catfish and a guami as well as a shovel nose shark. All my oscars are extremely social to one another. They all swim in groups and hunt the live feeders together. It is as if they are working together especially since one of my oscars is a albino tiger oscar with only one eye. They all seem to help him get the live fish to eat, and they will catch a fish and even bring it to him sometimes. The same goes for my shark and the catfish, they all help each other out which is strange because everyone tells me they are all aggressive fish and cannot co-exist.
2008-03-22 |
| I healed my oscar from hole-in-the head and he is very happy. I only have a 30 gallon at the moment (he is fairly small about 17cm) but I am going to upgrade to a 55 gal. It is an extremely easy fish to feed as it will eat just about anything you put in the tank. The only fish I have been able to keep with him successfully is a jewel cichlid. My oscar chases on occasion usually to get my attention. Best fish I've ever had.
2008-03-10 |
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| We recently bought 2 oscars, one red and the other one is albino. They are a hoot! The albino will let me pet him but the other shys away. They are always playing and yes tearing up the plants and the pieces that have torn away and are floating on the top of the water they like to push around. Mine are around 10" long and we have a plecosomus (algae eater) that they like to push on and make him move. They even try to nibble on his tail. They don't get too far because he is as big as they are. I love to press my nose against the tank and the albino oscar will come up to me and start to shake his head at me and then he takes off swimming. My husband keeps trying to find ways to keep the tank thermometer straight but they keep on pushing it around until they get it lengthwise with the tank. The one kind of rock that they don't move is the small rocks you get at the beach near the ocean. That is what we started with and has worked very well for all of our fish in the last 10 years. We just take them out and clean them every now and then. The rocks are about 1" to 3" in diameter. 2006-01-31 |
| First let me say they are fast growing, aggressive, need lots of water changes, alot of filteration, and are messy. My 9'' oscar has waste the size of deer poop. It's crazy. They love to eat. They can and will jump out of the water to get food. That includes your hand if its above the water line. I've owned probably a little over a dozen oscars total. I have 4 right now. I feed mine earth worms, pellets, frozen brine shimp, freeze dried blood worms, algae wafers, shrimp pellets,beef heart, guppies, and freeze dried tubifex worms. I'd like to srart my own culture of either blood worms, white worms, or brine shrimp someday. I think all my fish will benefit from that. That being said I never feed feeders from local or chain fish stores because of the disease feeders have that can be passed onto my fish. It's not worth loosing an 12in oscar to watch him eat feeders. I do breed my own guppies and feed those sometimes. When you breed your own it ensures you have the control over the quality of feeder you are providing. I mean, look at the feeder tanks in the stores. They are always overcrowded, nasty, and have dead fish floating around at the top. Do you really want to expose a 12'' oscar to that that you've took the one year or so to raise? Seems like a waste. 2005-12-10 |
| Comments Dr Jungle REALLY Likes to Hear! |
| Hello My Name is Dan.
I own 2 oscars in a 20 gallon hexagon tank and man do i love them. i bought them at walmart one afternoon and i have been in love with them since. i am 17 so when i am doing my homework they just look at me and try and help me out. When it comes to feeding they are the very quick. Their names are bert (male) and earie (female). Bert is the white one and earie is the red one. they get along great! I havent bred them yet but on somedays it looks like they want to! lol~ Anyways if anyone is bored with looking at a goldfish get these fish. Go recycle 2 months of cans and bottles like i did and get these fish. They are great fish and this site helped me out with the preparation, so thanks for that! 2006-04-26 |
| great site, i loved the info. you guys gave me helped out a whole lot. my oscar has a couple of holes in his head, i hope he doesnt die cuz i know its frum lack of care. thnx again. 2006-02-15 |
| This is a great helpful site... Thanks!
Alan 2005-08-15 |
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