My Oscar Setup, Some Questions

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Water said:
Second time you gave asinine comments now. Oscars are cichlids. All cichlids can be aggressive but there are exceptions. Try explaining this to the hundreds of people who keep Oscars in community set ups. You'd get shot down in a heartbeat.
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A broken clock is right twice a day, so what's your point ? Of course there may be exceptions and typically those are in controlled environments too, you give it the right nudge and you'll see sweetie pie oscar turn into a dark sith lord, speaking from experience. Guess there's a reason why most Oscar owners keep their precious isolated in their own tank.
 
LegoDozer said:
anyone know if tiger Oscars get aggressive as an adult
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uassaly they start to get aggressive at 7-9 inches they are pretty aggressive but there are a LOT of fish out there that are more aggressive though on a scale from 1 to 10 1 being a ram/butterfly clichid and 10 being a full grown umbee or dovii i would put an oscar as 6
 
my oscar used to get bullied by an angel that was 1/3 his size, and now the more dominant fish in the tank is the paratilapia polleni. my oscar is a big wuss.

IMO the reason oscars are often kept solitary is due to the tank space needed for them, and the tank size simply cannot handle any more fish in it than that. not everyone keeps their oscar in a 200 gallon tank or larger with tankmates.
 
Oscars will eat anything they can fit in their mouth, sooner or later. This sounds like the pitt bull owner trying to convince you his dog is safe, because it was trained properly. Then next week it eats the neighbors kid and the owner acts surprised. You can try and keep them full, but then you have to worry about water conditions. Just mix them with fish of equal size and equal agression levels.
 
plecostic said:
No it doesn't, Oscars are like Pit Bulls, sure they can be cute and all, but deep down they are born and bred to be aggressive, it's in the genes. It cracks me up when I hear Pit Bull Owners trying to say their dog is harmless, same for Oscar owners. These fish are aggressive, this doesn't mean they can't get along or that you shouldn't keep them. I love my two oscars and yes they terrorize the whole tank but for the most part all the fish get along and know their place. You just have to keep an eye on them and not be disillusioned about their temperament.
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wtf. my boxer is the nasty dog where as the pit is friendly. pits have the potential to be dangerous as any other large-giant breed but its all how you treat them. they dont just set off for no reason. gtfoh mods ban this dude spreading pit hate. shelters already are filled up with 2/3 of them and their mixes. i adopted both my dogs. my dogs are too friendly to attack you so unfortunately i would just have to know your ass out
 
Im not and wasnt trying to bash Pits, I was just calling a spade a spade. I did not meant to upset anyone. They kill lots of children, they do not know if their actions are pleasing or not, they are only dogs. Banning someone because you disagree is uncalled for.
 
There was once a pit pull owner who defended pits and said how loving and gentle they are, he swore up and down that his was the most gentle, that is until one day he came home and his pit was tearing the flesh off his pregnant wife. Pits are engineered to kill, labs are not, neither are poodles, there's a difference. I have two Oscars and they are loving and gentle too, when they are not systematically wiping out the entire tank stock.
 
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