albino Oscar deformity?

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last thing you want to be feeding an oscar is beef heart. or gold fish for that mater. quality pellet, you want a long living fish, not a large dead one.
 
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Ihsnshaik said:
Woah he's so malnutritioned if he's grown only that big. I understand only flake but try to get him on beef heart, brine shrimp, or krill.

I understand his deformity but flakes are probably the only thing that can fit do he eats it. What I described above should be his staple
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He's also in a 35 gallon. I bet the Oscar just has really poor genes though. Look at his face after all.
 
If we had an Oscar with a small lip deformity at the lfs I worked at I wouldn't put him down.
 
first thing's first, needs a bigger tank; simple as that. Also, as mentioned previously; flake just won't cut it, even if you can get mini hikari cichlid pellets and throw a lot in for him to eat, that would be a superior option imo
 
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A 35 gallon tank!? Lol, poor fish... great advice from others here. Upgrade the tank, and try mini pellets, cut up krill, mysis shrimp.
 
agreed on tank size. that is just not going to work, guy needs a nice 90g tall at least if going to live alone. and Oscar have no problem living alone, they do not need or want friends, they just want to stair at you all day and wonder when you going to feed them.
 
ehh said:
If we had an Oscar with a small lip deformity at the lfs I worked at I wouldn't put him down.
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Yeah because they're massively sold and cost is cheap.

If if this was an arowana, flowerhorn or discus it would be culled from most breeder.

People buy blood parrots with known mouth deformity
You can't ask 60$+ on a fish like this below... Lol

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I wanted to chime in here. My lutino oscar has this same mouth deformity that began when he was 3 inches. The same exact side of the mouth too. It wasn't like this when I first bought him and seemed to happen overnight. Mine doesn't have any problem eating tho. I think its just genetics. At first I thought maybe its an injury from lip locking or he injured himself on the substrate. Whatever it is, I see your oscar has the same issue and albinos and lutinos have genetic problems it seems like. I guess now I know that it won't go away so I guess I'll just have to get used to it.
 
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Presidenchill said:
I wanted to chime in here. My lutino oscar has this same mouth deformity that began when he was 3 inches. The same exact side of the mouth too. It wasn't like this when I first bought him and seemed to happen overnight. Mine doesn't have any problem eating tho. I think its just genetics. At first I thought maybe its an injury from lip locking or he injured himself on the substrate. Whatever it is, I see your oscar has the same issue and albinos and lutinos have genetic problems it seems like. I guess now I know that it won't go away so I guess I'll just have to get used to it.
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Btw you know this is a 4 year old post right? Most of these ppl probably aren't even members of this site anymore. Not trying to be mean here but just figured I'd let ya know.
 
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