ID this "Oscar"...photos inside...
- Thread starter terd ferguson
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then it should be easy to find a pic. i cant so maybe you can?!? i get red tigers at my store from 1" and up. they NEVER come in looking like that. i have never seen an oscar with any color on the gill plate, other than base color.
andyourblueblood;1168362; said:
This is the same thing I'm finding. I can't find a single picture of an Oscar that looks like the one I posted. All the other Tigers in the tank where I got him (smaller, the same size, or bigger) looked like the traditional Red Tiger Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus). The one I bought stuck out like a sore thumb because it looked so different.
And no offense Modest_Man, but that albino doesn't come close in pattern or coloration (even taking into account the albino factor). The pattern on the one I posted is from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail and all over every fin and on top and underneath. Keep in mind also, my fish is approximately 2 3/4", not exactly a baby. I've searched through pages and pages of Google images and Oscar sites and can't find another like it. I'm not saying the people claiming it's a juvenile Tiger are wrong, I'm just saying I can't find an image of an Oscar that looks like the one I posted.
If anybody has photos of a baby Tiger Oscar that looks like mine, post them up and then post up what they look like when they're bigger. I would think that if what I posted was regular baby Tiger Oscar coloration, there would be pictures all over the place (as popular as Oscars are). Anyway, no offense meant to anyone in this thread. I'm not an Oscar expert by any means. In fact I wanted to do my CA/SA tank without any Oscars. This one just looked so different from what I'm used to seeing, I bought it on impulse alone.
Each oscar has a different pattern, so of course the spotting isn't going to look the same. I wasn't looking for the same fish, I was looking for an oscar with the juvenile coloration.
And they'll all morph to the adult coloration eventually. Some are just "late bloomers". Who knows, maybe it's a genetic mutant and won't morph to the adult coloration. Very small odds though.
And they'll all morph to the adult coloration eventually. Some are just "late bloomers". Who knows, maybe it's a genetic mutant and won't morph to the adult coloration. Very small odds though.
Modest_Man;1169177; said:
What are the chances you think it could be this fish (photo borrowed from a Japanese site)?
It's labeled on this Japanese site as Astronotus "Columbia, Rio Caqueta". Here's the link to the site, scroll about halfway down...
http://aqua-bonito.web.infoseek.co.jp/CICHLID/CICHLID.html
Let me know what you think. It's the closest match I've seen thus far. And thanks again everyone.
def not a tiger im sticking with that i work with fish all day every day and that my friend is not a tiger. notice how the pattern goes off on to its face and gill plate and fins. no tiger you will find will have that.
i think your dead on.terd ferguson;1169240; said:What are the chances you think it could be this fish (photo borrowed from a Japanese site)?
It's labeled on this Japanese site as Astronotus "Columbia, Rio Caqueta". Here's the link to the site, scroll about halfway down...
http://aqua-bonito.web.infoseek.co.jp/CICHLID/CICHLID.html
Let me know what you think. It's the closest match I've seen thus far. And thanks again everyone.
Mine looked alot like that when I got them. I got them from a private breeder and they are a wildXdomestic cross. Mine have grown to look rather attractive...they are a lovely black marbeled with a olive golden color which fades into a orangy color and they have very vibrant red eyespots.
Also the term "tiger oscar" is a very generic term...most people will call any oscar with a marbled pattern and some color contrasting its base colors a "tiger".
Also the term "tiger oscar" is a very generic term...most people will call any oscar with a marbled pattern and some color contrasting its base colors a "tiger".
