770 Gallon Update 9/16/2012
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The oscar will eat whatever they can fit in their mouth, so if it does turn into a monster like the OP said, then yeah he will have issues, but the clowns and dollars will never be an issue, and hes thinking of trading out hte barbs for larger growing ones so whats the problem? some oscars are really docile and peaceful. others are destructive killers. growing an oscar up with lots of community shoaling fish will probably make him see them more as environmental and less as feeders
Ok, picking apart your stock is too easy...you are in way over your head. Let's get back to your thoughts on my stock.
How is an Oscar going to swallow 8" Wide Bar Silver Dollars, 8" Clown Loaches, a Texas Cichlid, a Green Terror, a Jack Dempsey a Flagtail, or the Balas?
One of your Redtail cats might be able to do that, but an Oscar?...not going to happen, bud.
Thanks Egon. They have gotten more skittish over the last few months...kind of annoying, but I'm hoping they will grow out of it.
I'm not saying I'm banking on this (as I mentioned earlier, I'm trying to get rid of the Barbs and possibly the Rasbora), but I had a 12" tiger Oscar that I raised with similar tankmates that was never fed live and he never bothered even some tiny little 1.5" loaches I kept with him. In hindsight, that was probably foolish of me, but it was never an issue. He didn't seem to have that prey drive...all he ever wanted was pellets...he would go nuts for pellets. Every so often I would throw a smelt in the tank and oddly enough, the clown loaches would devour it and the Oscar didn't want anything to do with it.
I would love to see an Oscar large enough to swallow a widebar SD, a full grown CL, or any of the other cichlids I have...that would be a Monster O!
You obviously haven't seen my other threads on my plans to convert my in-ground indoor hot tub. So saying I'm way over my head is foolish to say i been in the fish keeping more than 25+ years now I know what I'm doing. And you missed the part where I said the Oscar will eat JUST ABOUT everything in there.
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I didn't miss anything. When you wrote, that the "Oscar will eat just about every fish in there" I thought that you were saying that it will eat just about every fish in there...the Wide Bars, the clown loaches, the JD, GT, Texas etc. Now I realize you were referring to the fish that I already said in my original post that I was in the process of removing.
I've seen the pix of your hot tub. That's not a long term solution for a Pima...that's just another "growout." Adding a GATF, 2 Red Tail Cats, PBass, Clown Knife and a Motoro into the equation is basically ensuring that you are going to have dead fish.
If you think that hot tub is a long term solution for the Pima AND all those other monsters, that basically proves you are in over your head.
But I'm with you man, I should probably get rid of the barbs. Thanks for the advice.
I never fed my oscar live food and at 5" it was eating fish that were small enough to fit in his mouth. its instinct, even if you don't notice them going, they will dissapear every now and then
