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808cichlids

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I have a 110 gallon stock tank and I want to stock it with some common feeder goldfish to keep the whole "pond" theme, but was wondering if I put an Oscar in there would they live together fine? I would let the goldfish grow to about 5-6" before adding the Oscar which would be around 3-4".


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piranhaman00

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Seriously? No no no. In less then a month the Oscar will try to eat them and either choke or succeed


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O.O you know that people feed goldfish to Oscars on a daily basis sometimes....right?
 
Fat Homer

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I think the most important point every one is missing here is that Gold Fish are a cold water species, where as Oscars are a tropical species of fish...

So just the environment alone says it technically wouldn't work...
 
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Fat Homer said:
I think the most important point every one is missing here is that Gold Fish are a cold water species, where as Oscars are a tropical species of fish...

So just the environment alone says it technically wouldn't work...
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Well I live in Hawaii so the water temperature would be around 72-79 no matter what. And we have koi ponds EVERYWHERE in Hawaii. I've seen ponds here with everything from Red Devils, koi, pangasius, giant gourami, and Molly's here so I was just wondering if it was possible in a smaller scale. Thanks for all the kind and informative responses though.


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I always see tanks with cichlids and goldfish in just yesterday I was working on a job and there was about 3 4" gold fish living with blood parrots and a jd. All looked relatively healthy.


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