RE: Don't Buy Oscar Fish - 6 Reasons Why

[Ulu]

Is this tank big enough?

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It's that trick with the camera angle, right?
Meet Monstercat!
A foot long oscar is his snack food!

 

[Ulu]

Man with the time difference between here and the Rest of the world it's amusing to wake up and see these threads still going and everyone having a ruckus about them!

It would be interesting if you got a 50G and a 240G tank set up with identical filtration methods, filtering the exact same % of water per hour. Then get 2 juvenile oscars from the same batch of fry and put 1 in each tank. Feed them the exac same amount and type of food and do the exact same % of water changes for 10 years and see which fish grew largest ,lived longest , was healthiest , looked better and seemed happiest.
If anyone has some spare $, space and time then go for it and solve the issue once and for all.
My scientific prediction if I was to try it is my wife would yell at me and tell me to get outside and mow the lawn.

It would be interesting but unscientific even with two cloned fish.

You need more sample data for a meaningful conclusion.

 

[Supergeorge123]

It's that trick with the camera angle, right?
Meet Monstercat!
A foot long oscar is his snack food!
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A foot long fish would be a great meal for any cat.

 

[DawnMichele]

Who still doesn't get it that virtually ALL consumer buying is impulse buying at some level?

It's because money is so close to our emotions .

M O N E Y . . . when people see it their pulse increases. Pupils dilate. They react involuntarily as they sense it.

"Rational" reasons for buying are generally mythical in nature.

We spend it for love and hate, and tell ourselves many reasons our decision was reasoned, right and moral.

A sporty new car is the worse possible investment (except for aquariums) for 99.9% of people.
Why then is an impractical device a most desired object for virtually everyone?

Hi Ulu!!! Nice to see you on here!!!

 

[TheReefer]

Whether arguing about fish food or room for fish...sometimes seem like a revolving door.

Yeah, people seem very set in their ways, which isn't bad because they all work.
For food some people like me prefer frozen and live, then there's some who prefer pellets. Guess what? They both work
For filtration some people like me prefer sumps, some prefer canisters. But they both work

 

[krichardson]

I feed my neon tetras bratwursts, but they keep getting stuck halfway down. Then the neon goes cross eyed and starts choking and I have to pull the sausage out. What am doing wrong? Should I start with Vienna cocktail franks and work the way up gradually to the big Bratwurst?

Somehow,I missed this monologue yesterday LOL!

 

[Stanzzzz7]

Well, I hadn’t expected this thread to get as much attention as it had while I was away. I had actually mentioned something about the part of the original post about 55 gallon minimum but deleted it since I figured I didn’t have a leg to stand on saying it. Glad someone did though. I’ll put my $0.02 in on it.

I don’t know about yall but before I got my first (and last) oscar I justified the purchase as “they normally grow to 12 inches and in a 18 inch wide tank that’s 6 inches of turning space. That’s plenty.” Now that I have a 6-7 inch severum in a 75 I honestly don’t think anything much bigger would look right. My severum is a mid level active fish and if I was going with a highly active fish then I would put a cap at about 4 inches.
What I’m saying is that through personal experience my views have changed and because of it my opinion has changed from a 55 gallon being ok for an oscar to not keeping another one until I can get a 180.

On a personal note I’d like to thank Stanzzzz7 as he has helped me with his posts far more than he knows regarding tank sizes.

Sorry I must of missed this earlier.
Thank you, appreciate that.

 

[Stanzzzz7]

I wonder how many stone throwers are keeping fish in less than ideal conditions.

Put the pitch forks away, that is not me condoning keeping a fish in too small of a tank.

Yeah emotions lol especially when they wanna keep the site clean lmao

You lot can be so dramatic. All this crap about emotions and pitch forks.
The topic was all about the care of oscars basically. Tank size was brought up in the original post. Yet we're not allowed to have a view on it?
However you lot are allowed to defend it and say "it was just a mistake the op made. keeping a 14 inch Oscar in a 55,hes learnt from it everything is cool".
What, for 15 bloody years. That's not quick learning your defending, that's a long miserable existence for an oscar.

This bull crap about joining peta makes me laugh too. I'm no tree hugging save the whale hippy. I just dont like to give or hear of advise that leads to 15 years of claustrophobic living conditions for large intelligent animals.
It's the people that do, that will attract the attention of these animal rights groups and bring them down on our hobby.
I'm no peta member or wish to be but I do believe in meeting the fish I keep half way.
Sorry if that's too pitch forky or emotional for some of you.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Sorry I must of missed this earlier.
Thank you, appreciate that.

Haha, my posts are still being moderated so they may very well take several hours to actually be seen by the general public. I’m still not quite sure if when I tag someone they ever get the notification while my posts have to be moderated. It’s a hassle but worth it to be back here

 

[Ogertron3000]

You have lawns in australia?

Not much of a lawn after a dry hot summer but it's starting to come back. Still won't need to mow it for a while yet thankfully, it's not my favourite thing to do!