My Oscars

[sandtiger]

As if you guy's haven't seen enough Astronotus lately, here are some recent pictures of mine. The tiger is Bojangles and the red is Chef.

 

[Nate_N_Nicole]

nice lookin O's

 

[repair]

The one in the second pic has great fins!

 

[rallysman]

!

 

[fishnutham]

are yours wild caught sandtiger i can't remember

 

[Fry]

Nice looking Os. The name Chef fits perfectly. Just read your article today on oscarfish.com .

 

[sandtiger]

fishnutham....No, my oscars are not wild caught. The tiger came fro ma store called Empire Aquatics in upstate NY and the red came from a PetSmart.

Fry...what did you think of my article? I didn't know you were a member of ofish.

 

[gomezladdams]

I like em esp that second one

 

[Fry]

I liked your article a lot sandtiger, extremely informative and helpful. I'm going to ease up on feeders for my O. I also tried mealworms. I read that mealworms will turn into bugs and I had to go away for a few days and my O couldn't finish them so I put them in the freezer and fed them to him when I came back, it worked surprisingly well. The only thing I don't like about mealworms is that my O literally coughed up the exoskeletons later that day, it was a bit disturbing. A question I have for you is what is your view on feeding birds to fish? Sometimes I give my O small pieces of chicken and he loves it.

I posted a little on oscarfish.com a few years back but thought a lot of members were way too hard on their standards like tank size and filtration, it was like "whoever doesn't follow these rules must die!" Not that I treat my fish poorly but they were just very aggressive about it. This forum is more laid back.

 

[sandtiger]

I don't think bird meat is much better then mammal meat and from what I hear it is pretty gatty and can build up in the fishes liver. I have fed my oscars turkey thoug on rare occasions (Thanksgiving). Everything in moderation you know.

I hear you ya on ofish...they can come down pretty hard, you just gotta know how to defend yourself I guess on what you believe. Some of the members their frown upon my tank, come right into the thread ready to battle when all I want to do is show off my fish.