what do you keep with your oscars?
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Black Belts seem to bond well with Oscars. I am on my second set of these 2. In my old tank, once my lead fish (an Arawana) jumped to his death.... the Black Belt would protect my Oscar from my Green Terror (though I had to get rid of the Green Terror all the same). I have a couple of Salvanis (SP)this time too... though aggressive, they tend to be smaller and hang out on the bottom. I have a 135 Gal Tank.
Kitten,
IMHO the 55 g is way to small for your oscar, even if he's by himself. Right now, while he's small, it may work, but in six or seven months he will be twice that size. A 55 g tank is 12 inches wide, this doesn't even give a full grown 13" oscar room to turn around.
Oscars are very powerful fish that will easily thrash an aquarium twice the size of your 55. I kept two in a 150 and they were always uprooting my plants, upending my slate mounted driftwood and just causing havoc. But you know, I really liked those two fish. They would eat food right from my fingers, get pissed when I was cleaning and attack my hand, or the vacuum, watch tv with me. No really, I made them some miniature recliners and they would kick back with a shrimp stick and watch Seinfeld.
They develop great personalities.
They do need good water maintenance. They are VERY messy fish and if kept in poor conditions are susceptible to hole in the head disease.
Recommended foods include beef heart, live fish, earthworms and night crawlers, which mine loved!
Oscars are a great fish to keep but I really would suggest keeping him in a larger tank. Again, JMHO.
IMHO the 55 g is way to small for your oscar, even if he's by himself. Right now, while he's small, it may work, but in six or seven months he will be twice that size. A 55 g tank is 12 inches wide, this doesn't even give a full grown 13" oscar room to turn around.
Oscars are very powerful fish that will easily thrash an aquarium twice the size of your 55. I kept two in a 150 and they were always uprooting my plants, upending my slate mounted driftwood and just causing havoc. But you know, I really liked those two fish. They would eat food right from my fingers, get pissed when I was cleaning and attack my hand, or the vacuum, watch tv with me. No really, I made them some miniature recliners and they would kick back with a shrimp stick and watch Seinfeld.
They develop great personalities. They do need good water maintenance. They are VERY messy fish and if kept in poor conditions are susceptible to hole in the head disease.
Recommended foods include beef heart, live fish, earthworms and night crawlers, which mine loved!
Oscars are a great fish to keep but I really would suggest keeping him in a larger tank. Again, JMHO.
If you knew all about it, why would you put the Oscar in a 55 g tank? Evidently when you bought it you didn't know all about it. If you knew all about it why post a question asking for help? Maybe somebody else didn't know all about it. If my advice didn't help you, maybe it helped somebody else.
I wasn't implying that you didn't know all about it, I was simply offering some advice.
I wasn't implying that you didn't know all about it, I was simply offering some advice.