Hi, Folks.
So, I go to my local Petco store. I see an Oscar in bad condition, though not as bad as the rest. So, again, I feel sorry for it because its tankmate looks extremely emaciated and all of its Oscar neighbors (in another tank) have hith (quite noticeably so, especially in the albinos). I don't want to adopt a very sick Oscar, but I don't want this particular Oscar to suffer the fate of its buddies.
My silly heart gets the best out of my even sillier brain, and I buy it. I put it in a quarantine tank, where it's been for three days on the way to fourteen. Once it proves healthy, what do I do with it? Do I put it temporarily in a 10 gallon tank and let it feed for a while off the fish there? In my 30 gallon tank and let it taste rummynose, hatchetfish, and ram meat? Naw, although compassion seems to be a close friend to cruelty.
Anyway, should I put it in a 125-gallon tank with a silver arowana (8")? The Oscar is about 3" and is now well-proportioned. I don't expect the arowana, who has never tasted live flesh, to eat it, but you never know. Will the Oscar bother the arowana? It would certainly wreck my plants, eventually.
In a few months, I plan to get a 3' wide tank for the arowana...
How soon before an Oscar reveals its personality as a nasty or relatively peaceful cichlid? Will my aro (and bichir and pleco and balas and hybrid parrot) be safe from a possibly nasty-tempered Oscar for, say, 10 months? Or, should I see into getting a 55-g tank for the Oscar?
I am considering two possibilities, then--putting the Oscar in a 125 with the tankmates I mentioned or getting a 55 and put it there until it outgrows it. My preference is the first one... What kinds of experiences have you foks had with young oscars and tankmates such as the ones I've mentioned?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Masa
So, I go to my local Petco store. I see an Oscar in bad condition, though not as bad as the rest. So, again, I feel sorry for it because its tankmate looks extremely emaciated and all of its Oscar neighbors (in another tank) have hith (quite noticeably so, especially in the albinos). I don't want to adopt a very sick Oscar, but I don't want this particular Oscar to suffer the fate of its buddies.
My silly heart gets the best out of my even sillier brain, and I buy it. I put it in a quarantine tank, where it's been for three days on the way to fourteen. Once it proves healthy, what do I do with it? Do I put it temporarily in a 10 gallon tank and let it feed for a while off the fish there? In my 30 gallon tank and let it taste rummynose, hatchetfish, and ram meat? Naw, although compassion seems to be a close friend to cruelty.
Anyway, should I put it in a 125-gallon tank with a silver arowana (8")? The Oscar is about 3" and is now well-proportioned. I don't expect the arowana, who has never tasted live flesh, to eat it, but you never know. Will the Oscar bother the arowana? It would certainly wreck my plants, eventually.
In a few months, I plan to get a 3' wide tank for the arowana...
How soon before an Oscar reveals its personality as a nasty or relatively peaceful cichlid? Will my aro (and bichir and pleco and balas and hybrid parrot) be safe from a possibly nasty-tempered Oscar for, say, 10 months? Or, should I see into getting a 55-g tank for the Oscar?
I am considering two possibilities, then--putting the Oscar in a 125 with the tankmates I mentioned or getting a 55 and put it there until it outgrows it. My preference is the first one... What kinds of experiences have you foks had with young oscars and tankmates such as the ones I've mentioned?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Masa
