Oscar Cichlid - Cichlid Forum

http://www.petforumz.com/house-Oscar-Cichlid-Needlenose-gar-ftopict44770.html (Okay to house Oscar Cichlid & Needlenose gar together?)
Ok, I saw this 6 in Needlenose Gar (Xenetodon Cancila) at PetsMart, and wondered if it would be compatible with my 4 in Tiger Oscar, 4 giant danios, and 1 plec. I have the 50 gallon tank at 75 F and..
« Well that depends on what size the oscar is vs. the gar!! I had a gar once in a seperate tank when I got tired of having to buy live fish .. »
« "CanadianCray": time I don't think tubifex worms are good to give to Oscars.. Don't know about the Gar.. Although a really intresting fish.. »
« "T" wrote in message ... Tim: What aren't tubifex worms good to give to Oscars? »

http://www.petforumz.com/Oscar-ftopict50486.html (Getting Oscar(s))
I have always wanted an Oscar or oscars and now I have a 55 gallon tank. I think I need special filtration don't I? Also how many can I keep in a tank that size, I know they can get quite big. An..
« i have several large tanks and my favorite is my 120 gallon oscar tank. i have five large oscars and they all get along great. i got them.. »
« Thanks to both of you for your input. From what you have said and other people I've talked to I think I will just admire the Oscars when .. »
« "Mark Stone": One major point I didn't mention , you can successfully use a UGF with large cichlids if you put a plastic grate on top of t.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Red-Oscar-ftopict50482.html (New Red Oscar....)
Hi, 3 days ago, I got a 8 wk old red oscar; a baby. In the tank, he hides constantly. never to be seen. I have tried to feed him, but I know he is not getting any food. What should I do? This w..

http://www.petforumz.com/sick-oscar-help-ftopict41785.html (sick oscar help)
one of my oscars has been looking worse over the last few weeks. Today he was lying on the bottom breathing shallow. When I tore the tank down last weekend there were a few flukes in one of the filt..
« damnit he died a few moments ago. Been watching on him all night hoping the QT with new water and different meds added and he would pull t.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/help-sick-oscar-ftopict47492.html (Please help my sick oscar)
Hi, Recently purchased baby albino red oscar. Seems today he has a 3mm piece of red poo hanging out of his bum - and it appears to bleed (some kind of redish brown stuff leaking slowly into the wat..
« Still not excited to see me but after dosing him with some epsom salts, he did eventually get a very big poo hanging from him - the end wa.. »
« It was truly an accident - I was trying to accustom my current oscar to the newbie, so I was trying to feed the current oscar larger pelle.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/oscar-food-ftopict50641.html (oscar food)
i've tried 3-4 different brands of cichlid food, currently hikari cichlid staple. my oscares seem less than impressed, only a couple bites eaten it seems. what can i use/try? they all loved the ..
« i have 4 beautiful oscars (each about a foot long). i have never fed them live feeder fish but what i do feed them i get at the local sup.. »
« sl wrote in message ... forgot to mention. . . . I purchased my oscar at the begining of March 2004 and he was 4 inches long. Now he is .. »
« My brother in law has had great success with insects of all kinds especially crickets and grasshoppers, earth worms (they virtually leap o.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Oscar-dropsy-ftopict50675.html (Oscar with dropsy)
Hi all. My oscar has had dropsy for a month now. It looks bloated like a fancy goldfish. I have treated it with anti-bacterial medication and it is still eating and looking ok. How will it fare in t..
« "perrin": a is If he is still eating, then anti-bacterial food would be the most effective. The odds are against him though. -- http://www.NetM.. »
« || Hi all. My oscar has had dropsy for a month now. It looks bloated || like a fancy goldfish. I have treated it with anti-bacterial || me.. »
« "RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ... RedForeman and Netmax are both correct, but I'm going to take it a step further: The term "dropsy" .. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Oscar-feed-ftopict51017.html (Oscar feed)
I just traded in all my bettas for a baby tiger oscar. Wondering if it is ok to feed him with the freeze dried blood worms my bettas used to eat? I also have some "vivid colour" flakes. This ok? ..
« You shoul have saved some of the betta's Thaw out the blood worms in some warm water, and let him have them, what are you going to feed.. »
« Oh my blood worms aren't frozen, they are freeze dried. So they are dry worms that stink. Is that ok still? Also, how come my oscar didn.. »
« One more thing - I used to feed my old oscar random bugs from around the house, and whatever landed on the lid of his tank (he would stalk.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Solitary-Oscar-ftopict50562.html (Solitary Oscar - OK?)
Hello, Is it ok to keep an Oscar: a) on it's own, i.e. the only fish in the tank? b) with other fish, but no other Oscars? I read that they are a pairing fish, but how important is this to their wel..
« "Richard Phillips" wrote in message ... The answers are yes and yes. The only problem arises if you have an Oscar that is used to having.. »
« OK, Thanks Mark. Any idea on why they are ok if kept alone from young? This is quite interesting! Regards, Richard. "Mark Stone": ... »
« "Richard Phillips" wrote in message ... Clearly we can't climb into an Oscar's brain and see what he's thinking. However, Oscars *seem* .. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Damaged-Oscar-ftopict50505.html (Damaged Oscar)
I have a pair of Oscars about 6 inches long (so far!) in a 125g tank that are for all observations healthy and typical. The other day I came down and found that one had ripped the pectoral fin of th..
« I have a female betta that lost her pectoral fin during breeding. Its been about 2 months now, and theres still no sign of regrowth. She s.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Red-Tiger-Oscar-ftopict50873.html (Red Tiger Oscar)
Hi, I live in Brisbane Australia. I recently bought a baby red tiger oscar. Does it require a heater? It is quite warm here in summer, take today for instance it was about 30 degrees celcius and ..
« Oscars are a tropicial fish, You NEED a heater. As for Oscars smashing up heaters. How big was it again 8 or 10 inches. I would suggest.. »
« In summer here it's hard for me to keep tanks under 28, they will go over 30 if I dont act to control the situation. But the winter I sti.. »
« "bassett" wrote in message [ Its 'DUH' oscar......the new resident fish professor. -- "In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional d.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Oscar-ftopict50947.html (Oscar question...)
Hello all, I have a 240gal tank that I am currently running freshwater with bala's and Angel and miscellaneous tetras. I was thinking that an oscar would be great for a tank this size as well as pe..
« They will most likely dig. "Justin Boucher": »
« Okay... Are there any tricks to the trade that Oscar owners use to keep all the gravel from being moved around too much then? Or is it o.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Suicidal-Oscar-ftopict50953.html (Suicidal Oscar)
I hava a young (5 inches) oscar alone in a 75 gallon tank. I have in there a UGF and a power filter, and the oscar somehow managed to jump through the power filter hole a few minutes before I got ho..
« hmm...ph=7.2 ammonia is undetectable...this one has always jumped a lot...just never out of the tank. I thought it was doing it to get my .. »
« "CSJackso@gmail.com": Your Oscar is jumping AT something, like a fly landed right there on the filter/heater stuff and he came clear out o.. »
« Elaine T: Yeah, it's probably all that salt in there ;-) -Derek »

http://www.petforumz.com/red-oscar-eating-ftopict50664.html (red oscar not eating)
he will eat flake. but i've tried 3 brands of cichlid pellets. he might mouth them, then spit them out. if i feed flakes the other oscars won't eat pellets, flakes only. also the flakes don't se..
« sl wrote in message ... Still feed him krill and bloodworms. If he is eating flake, then technically there is no problem. Feeders aren't.. »
« thanks for advice, i was gonna try nightcrawlers from a bait supplier. he had been into them over a year ago, but i got tired of it. and .. »
« An Oscar that won't eat pellets aint hungry enough. Don't feed them for a while, a few days.. then drop in some pellets and see if they go.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/red-tiger-oscar-ftopict50264.html (red tiger oscar)
Can any one help ? will red tiger oscars go in with my malawi cichlids Cheers Chris
« "Chris Foster": Oscars and Malawis sound like a bad mix.. Different water conditions preferred. Also, Malawis, assuming you are talking a.. »
« "Sarotherodon": More aggressive than Oscars? Most of them would end up as Oscar food. Water differences and own tank suggestions are corre.. »
« On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:12:19 +0000 (UTC), (Chris Foster): Thanks for the advice, I am new to Tropical fish and Cichlids. Off to buy anot.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/oscar-died-ftopict51000.html (My oscar died :()
So sad and annoyed! My oscar died for no reason! This is almost the worst of my run of bad luck this week. It's not fair, I tried to do everything right for this fish. Fish keeping is impossible..
« Sorry for your loss. How long did you have your oscar? How large was it? What were your water parameters and tank size? kay-bee "Beano": »
« I'm sorry for your loss beano! Sometimes life is unfair. Don't give up on fishkeeping though. Just vow to do it better next time. -Frank.. »
« I'd had him for 6 months. He was 1.5in when I got him and he was about 4.5in when he died. He was in a 60L tank by himself. He had HEAP.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/blind-oscar-ftopict50819.html (blind oscar)
My 8inch albino oscar has gone blind in his right eye (The eye is still there but the pupil seems to be gone) and he has a white thing growing in his left eye.He has always been healthy . Any ideas ?
« Could it be cloudy eye? I'm told it is a form of fungal infection caused by stress and/or poor nutrition and can be treated with erythrom.. »
« That could be for the cloudy eye but the other eye looks like the pupil is gone.The outside of the eye looks fine. "Draves": »

http://www.petforumz.com/Oscar-changed-colour-ftopict50874.html (Oscar changed colour)
Hi, I bought my oscar yesterday, and in the pet store it was all black, with red circles. Now it has some transparent stripes which run vertically all the way around the fish up to the red circles. ..
« Mine seems to change colors when he is stressed. Yesterday I moved him to a bigger tank and he turned almost white and today he won't e.. »
« If your water parameters are OK and the tank is the right size for the fish it would most likley just the fish adapting to it's new home... »

http://www.petforumz.com/feed-large-OSCAR-ftopict47273.html (What too feed my large OSCAR)
Iv got a big 45cm Oscar, What should i feed him?
« "silk200611": The best food IMO would be large cichlid pellets. Add variation by seeing if he'll eat such things as algae wafers, or shri.. »
« "silk200611" wrote in news:1140683245.041601.244100 @t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com: Feed him a mix of things if you want him to look his .. »
« "Koi-Lo" wrote in news:43fde37d$0$13181 $8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com: Not the ones we sell, but I still wouldn't recommend using th.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Oscar-acting-weird-ftopict51047.html (Oscar acting weird)
I have 2 oscars in a 125g, both about 9 inches long. the tiger oscar has been acting strangly. hanging out by himself behind a rock wall i made, rarely coming to the top for food. sometimes hangs..
« UPDATE: i have noticed the 2 oscars mouth fighting. the albino is mainly unscaved and my guess has been picking on the tiger previously. .. »
« : Yes, it might be. The thing to watch out for is dominance -- if, in the times when they are lip-locking etc, one of the fish seems to b.. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Butterfly-fish-Oscar-ftopict50643.html (Butterfly fish and Oscar together?)
Is it ok to house a butterfly fish & 6 inch Oscar together? TIA. --Cookie
« "Cookie": Sounds like lunch for the oscar. »

http://www.petforumz.com/Skin-Disease-Oscar-ftopict50449.html (Skin Disease on an Oscar)
Help! I recently aquired 4 new oscars and they were transported several hours by bucket to my home from a borhter in law. I knew they would be under some stress and have been watching them and they..

http://www.petforumz.com/Aggressive-fish-ftopict50875.html (Aggressive fish)
HI all, I have a big green terror, a big oscar, a big pl*co, and a convict cichlid. They were in a 40 gallon tank and were all getting along just fine for more than 3 years. The day before yeste..
« Recommend you temporarilly move the Green Terror back to the 40 for a couple of weeks. This will allow the other fish including the conv.. »
« Craig: I'm not very knowledge about cichlids so I looked up pics and stats of the convict and green terror. It says the terror could grow.. »
« No, I tried putting him back and he is still mean. He continues harrassing the oscar, and the pleco and the convict. I have him right n.. »