Hey guys, i have a pretty aggressive 12 in tiger oscar who i am upgrading to a 150-200 gallon aquarium, abd really want some tankmates to add some color and keep my fish company. As i said hes pretty agressive, so i was considering mabey another oscar, or possibly even a 10 in jack or greem terror. Let me know if you guys have had any luck with these fish together or if you had any other tankmates that worked well with larger oscars.
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Jags do pretty well with oscars in bigger(150-200) tanks. GTs and JDs also do well.
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From my experience I have a 135 gallon tank with a Oscar, Jack Dempsey, Cuban, Vieja Synspilum, Salvini, Firemouth, Black Convict that get along pretty good. I use to have a female Green Terror, but I had to get rid of her since she tore up my male Texas last year that died. Also, it might be a little easier with less aggression if most of them are females. Which I have been lucky to have 5 females in my tank currently. It really depends on how many cichlids you want in the tank and the filtration system you have running.
Im running to fluval fx5s and a 75 gallon sump. Im going to try my best to introduce as many of the new fish at the same time to kind of confuse the oscar and hopefully keep him at bay.
I would honestly get a schooling of Tiger Barbs in your tank, because it will keep the Oscar busy and that's if he can catch them. You can probably find a much larger tank then 200 gallon for cheap at a LFS. I remember finding a 240 gallon with everything included for 1200 dollars.
My Oscar learned to hunt "her" tiger barbs at night when they'd sleep. They were in a 240 and all 7 went missing within a week and a half. And they were all 2.5" TBs.
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Interesting, but all Oscars are different from each other. I guess I was the lucky one to have a 12 inch Oscar not trying to eat all his small tank mates.
yah bad luck with the barbs in the past, didnt stand a chance im going to get another 13 in oscar along with a 9 in Jack and 8.5 in gt and a pleco, and hope all goes well. wish me luck!
Most med to large CA/SA can be kept together,
Until they decide to breed. I've seen convict upset a tank.
And breeding set of Dempsey's, Force every other large fish into a corner.
So if you can keep them the same sex, It would help.
Spike
Until they decide to breed. I've seen convict upset a tank.
And breeding set of Dempsey's, Force every other large fish into a corner.
So if you can keep them the same sex, It would help.
Spike
Mate,
My 9inch Albino tiger Oscar is a bully had to remove a smaller oscar (7inch) cause he use to burry the smaller one in the substarte. That said i have got 2x barra's 1 green sevrem and 1 geo brasilisnses.
He has a go at all of them cause they are smaller little bigger than his mouth size ATM but the Barra's swim off and dont realy care about him but the Green And Geo will nip at him if he try's to chase them. This has pritty much stopped now after about 2 weeks, Only have a little drama at feeding but its getting better.
i guess its trial and error realy
My 9inch Albino tiger Oscar is a bully had to remove a smaller oscar (7inch) cause he use to burry the smaller one in the substarte. That said i have got 2x barra's 1 green sevrem and 1 geo brasilisnses.
He has a go at all of them cause they are smaller little bigger than his mouth size ATM but the Barra's swim off and dont realy care about him but the Green And Geo will nip at him if he try's to chase them. This has pritty much stopped now after about 2 weeks, Only have a little drama at feeding but its getting better.
i guess its trial and error realy