I’m thinking of changing to oscars….help!

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So I’ve been keeping African haps and peacocks for about 2 years and Lately I’ve been really drawn to Oscar fish. I love what I’ve been told about their personality and just fancy keeping something that is a bit of a big brute. As much as I love my Africans I am feeling it’s time to change.

My current tank is 151cm x 51cm x 66cm which is 450 litres or about 120 US gallons or about 100 imperial gallons.

Given my tank size what’s everyone’s advice on how many Oscars I could keep to adult, I really wanted a tiger, red and Albino trio. I also like peacock bass.

Any advice you can give me would be great. My filtration is 2 FX6s…….overkill I know it’sjust I always worried one might fail….(previous experience and another story).
Thanks
 
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Chrislisk said:
So I’ve been keeping African haps and peacocks for about 2 years and Lately I’ve been really drawn to Oscar fish. I love what I’ve been told about their personality and just fancy keeping something that is a bit of a big brute. As much as I love my Africans I am feeling it’s time to change.

My current tank is 151cm x 51cm x 66cm which is 450 litres or about 120 US gallons or about 100 imperial gallons.

Given my tank size what’s everyone’s advice on how many Oscars I could keep to adult, I really wanted a tiger, red and Albino trio. I also like peacock bass.

Any advice you can give me would be great. My filtration is 2 FX6s…….overkill I know it’sjust I always worried one might fail….(previous experience and another story).
Thanks
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The issue with most who want to keep Cichlid like the Oscar is proper PH for a soft water species. kept in hard high PH water and high Nitrate levels will result in HITH aka Hole in the head disease.
 
My nitrates are always around 0 or just over as I do 50-60 % water changes weekly along with chemical filtration with purigen.
 
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tlindsey said:
The issue with most who want to keep Cichlid like the Oscar is proper PH for a soft water species. kept in hard high PH water and high Nitrate levels will result in HITH aka Hole in the head disease.
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I personally like the Oscar a old time favorite but unfortunately can't keep one.
 
And from what I understand the Iscars would be fine with PH around 7.5
 
Chrislisk said:
My nitrates are always around 0 or just over as I do 50-60 % water changes weekly along with chemical filtration with purigen.
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If you can keep up with that routine then you'll probably won't have issues. Remember though as the Oscar gets larger a larger percentage wc will be needed.
 
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