Is my filtration OK for large cichlids?

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The largest Oscar at Fishbase is 18". (My opinion is that it was a wild oscar or one kept in a public aquarium.) This was total length as well (includes fins.) Oscars of course are one of if not the most well known fish in the hobby.

I checked Youtube as well. No one even had an 18" Oscar, much less 20" or 24".

Baffling.
 
dragonfish said:
Don't recall adding your name in to that comment about quoted oscar size, just going off the averages of what people claim but never back up with proof. Had a guy swear he had a 20 inch oscar, but again no pics. His excuse, he didn't think it noteworthy because oscars commonly get that big in the home aquarium with proper care. There's a a youtube video of a guy claiming an 18 inch oscar raised in a 40 gallon tank it's whole life. Funny though, when the oscar turns neither tail nor nose touch glass. Either the widest 40 on record or an extremely limber oscar. In the comments are claims of 20, 22 and 24 inch fish. None of them have documentation either.

Don't get the not having a camera bit, but then again I've always had one since the old Kodak instamatic 110 with flash cubes.

Still waiting on actual verifiable measurements of one, not camera tricks and guesses.
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Sorry I was just being sarcastic about an Oscar growing to 24".
 
ohh man this thread is awesome! keep em' coming guys! :popcorn:
 
How big are arapimag's?

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You can keep the pimas in 2 gallon nano. Remember folks, fish only grow to the size of the tank.

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wow lol, these posts are crazy. id say hell yeah for a 75 or 90 for one oscar fish. and the filtration is good too. finally, at several pet stores around me, there's big oscarts for sale that are an easy 12-15". so one being 16" is possible. of course ony to know for sure would be to net him, to lay him next to a yardstick, and to measure the animal's length. lol, poor fish!!!
 
Lol! at this thread.


To OP.

I think a 75g is fine for an solo oscar, you can get away with it at least for 3 or more years, you know? Oscars are fast growers but they dont get 16"+ over a night...lol! moreovemr mots of them average 12 to 14 so you'll be fine.

So being this I say go for it, enjoy the hobby and after three or four years you may have upgraded a to 100gal tank, in the worts scenario you can sell it or give it away and get another fish to continue enjoing the hobby.

Oh, I was forgetting, your fitration is OK just perform 3 20%-25% WC per week when oscar gets 8", before that you'll be fine with two WC per week


Cheers.
 
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