Hi, red ,tiger , and albino oscars are about the only oscars around me. I recently rescued 2 very large oscars, one of them i was told was a tiger oscar. This fish had the worst color of any tiger oscar i had seen. Then after doing a bit of research i found out this fish was actually the common or green oscar. My question is this. The fish colors are always washed out. He has the darker pigments but very rarely displays the blacks (or dark grey). He is most often just a yellowy color with some orange spangles. Is there anything i can do to bring out the darker colors (like the stripes and splotches) ? He is in a 135 gallon with his "buddy" another 12 inch oscar. They swim everywhere together and seem inseperable like many large pairs often are. There is also a snake skin gourami and some food sized fry in the tank. The tank has a black background and white sand and brown driftwood and rocks. Any advice on how to darken him up would be great. Thanks.
These pics were taken shortly after transporting him from a 75 gallon tank that had a adult flowerhorn, his wounds are gone now but color is the same. Im feeding hikari cichlid gold pellets, tetra cichlid sticks, krill .
This is how he looks rarely and i want him to look this way more often (10 percent or less):
This is how he looks 90 percent of the time :
These pics were taken shortly after transporting him from a 75 gallon tank that had a adult flowerhorn, his wounds are gone now but color is the same. Im feeding hikari cichlid gold pellets, tetra cichlid sticks, krill .
This is how he looks rarely and i want him to look this way more often (10 percent or less):
This is how he looks 90 percent of the time :
