My Oscars bred! Oops lol

[Loshmitchell101]

I got these guys as a donation a couple of years back from a petco for free. They were in a 10 gallon together already large. The tank is a mess I did a water change and added this clay plate for my jags in the tank, ive had these guys for close to three years now without any activity. I had no idea of their sexes and ive never noticed any signs of a couple. We dropped in this plate and they went for it with a water change instantly! We are now raising fry from these two and theres actually albinos in the mix of fry.

 

[Loshmitchell101]

The smaller Oscar is actually the male, the first pic of them his side marks are much thinner than hers. Another note, when pulling the plate to transfer none of the eggs were actually sticking to the plate itself they were swishing around and I pulled it up. Ive never had a plate of eggs that weren't stuck to the plate. I actually lost some of out of the plate and into the gravel.

 

[cich78]

Congratulations... Knowing that you have a male and female...what physical and behavioral differences if any do you see between the two? In other words is the one that you would think is male a male and vice versa just by superficially looking at it ... and now that you have Oscar fry time for a growth thread to see how long it takes them to go from egg to a couple inches....

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[gus_fish]

Ill take a baby or two lol


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[pigoo]

Congrats. Since they are so hard to sex (basically impossible)...you don't hear of Oscars breeding in a home aquarium very often. Have fun with them...pretty awesome!

 

[Loshmitchell101]

Congratulations... Knowing that you have a male and female...what physical and behavioral differences if any do you see between the two? In other words is the one that you would think is male a male and vice versa just by superficially looking at it ... and now that you have Oscar fry time for a growth thread to see how long it takes them to go from egg to a couple inches....

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I was never able to see a difference between the two other than their size difference. We believed the much larger Oscar to be male which in fact the much larger Oscar is female. Ive had them for at least three years both of these are full grown. The female is 13'' and the male is 10''. I find it interesting the female is larger than the male. To date these two really didn't care for each other they flair at each other occasionally but overall they did not act like a "pair" would. We figured the larger heavier bodied would obviously be the male of the two because of just general knowledge. Im curious to know if females usually tend to be larger than males? Case in point in most cases with reptiles (especially snakes) females are always larger than males. They say this because of the ability to hold eggs. That with snakes the females colors are duller, the bodies are larger and males are smaller with more vibrant colors.

 

[Loshmitchell101]

Another random thought, with sharks females are larger and heavier.

 

[crush329]

Congrats! I once got 2 from a friend that were in a 210 for 2 years and never showed signs of being paired up. I took them in and they spawned in my community tank(youtube page) and we had no clue they were male and female. Well they were also two different sizes... Female was about 13" and male 10" like yours. Only the male was albino... I've heard some say albino's don't get as big? Well long story short the eggs never hatched so I passed them to a friend.

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[MarineMike]

The female being larger than the male is common for many fish breeds. In bass largemouth, smallmouth and striped the females always grow larger than the males. Catcch any largemouth over 10 pounds and its almost a given at it's a female. With striped bass anything over 30 pounds is usually female ( the world record is around 78 pounds) so consider how much larger they get.
I do find it strange though considering Oscars are SA/CA cichlids and all the ones I've read about the male are always largerboth in the wild and in captivity. You did mention they were donation fish that hadd been kept in a 10 gallon tank so maybe the male is stunted due to poor conditions at its early stage of life!

 

[Loshmitchell101]

The female being larger than the male is common for many fish breeds. In bass largemouth, smallmouth and striped the females always grow larger than the males. Catcch any largemouth over 10 pounds and its almost a given at it's a female. With striped bass anything over 30 pounds is usually female ( the world record is around 78 pounds) so consider how much larger they get.
I do find it strange though considering Oscars are SA/CA cichlids and all the ones I've read about the male are always largerboth in the wild and in captivity. You did mention they were donation fish that hadd been kept in a 10 gallon tank so maybe the male is stunted due to poor conditions at its early stage of life!

Petco put them in a 10 as an adoption, I have no idea where they came from though.

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