My Oscars

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Nice fish oscarski, thought i'd jump on the bandwagon and show mine off too.

The albino is Jules and the tiger is Ted - we were hoping they would be a pair but they are both males :(
I had to seperate them soon after this pick was taken cus they were trying to kill each other. both 7 inches now.

The one in my avatar is my 13 inch monster who now lives in a heated outdoor pond.

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Benjine;1977553; said:
Nice fish oscarski, thought i'd jump on the bandwagon and show mine off too.

The albino is Jules and the tiger is Ted - we were hoping they would be a pair but they are both males :(
I had to seperate them soon after this pick was taken cus they were trying to kill each other. both 7 inches now.

The one in my avatar is my 13 inch monster who now lives in a heated outdoor pond.
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I love their colors! So if they try to kill each other then they're both males? Mine aren't spawning so I know they're both the same sex but they haven't tried to kill each other... so maybe they're both females??
 
Not sure, some oscars just get along without being a pair. I was sure mine were a pair before they started fighting - they used to swim around everywhere together.

Aparently it's hard to sex them for sure. (if they breed you'll know!)
I'm not 100% sure if they are both males but i've heard if there are three black spots in the dorsal fin (top long one i think) then it's more likely to be a male.

you can make out some faint spots on Jules but cus its albino it's hard to tell. On Ted it's easier to see but i don't have photos showing it.
 
Benjine;1980660; said:
Hmm, seems the 3 spots for a male is a wives tale after all :screwy:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_know_if_an_oscar_fish_is_male_or_female

Anyway, your lucky to have them getting along anyway.
I had to sacrifice the tank I had lined up for a comunity setup to house the other oscar!
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Yeah I did the venting finally and I'm thinking now that the Tiger is a male and the Albino is a female.... the tank has never been in a situation that's comfortable for them to breed (temp's constantly 78 and no live fish and no place for them to spawn). Come to think of it, I think that's why they killed my Red Oscar that I had. Never really knew what truly happened to him but he died while I was on vacation with my husband.
 
Thanks, I need to get more pics of them in their much more roomy 65G long tank.
 
Oscars need at least 55 gallons each, with more being preferable.

There is NO medicine that will do anything to cure or help HITH. The only thing that can is very low nitrates (<5ppm) and low levels of stress.

Tinfoil barbs are schooling fish that get about 12 inches long.

Common plecos get to 24 inches long and over.

Between all of your fish, you have 200 gallons of bioload in that tank.

Sorry for your loss, but the reason that beavis died (probably) was from either high nitrates, ammonia or nitrite poisoning, or agression. 3 is the worst number of oscars to have because 2 will almost always gang up on 1 and kill it. Especially in a tank that small.

I would personally adopt out chip and lucifer because chip needs at least 60 gallons to himself, and lucifer is a schooling fish. But if you got lucifer more "bff"s then you would require a very large tank in the 110 g range for their high activity levels.

Then I would move one o into the 47 gallon and leave one in the 65 gallon and do one large water change (80% or as far as you can go while letting the fish stay in water) on the 65 gallons and 3-4 large water changes (same as above, as low as possible) on the 47 gallon per week.

Sorry to sound harsh, but the high stocking levels are most definitely the reason for the HITH.
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