My poor Oscar and my first CA Cichlid

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jmf said:
The sad thing is, my Oscar was a part of the family. Sometimes he would for whatever reason get the grumps with me and a family member would have to feed him. But he was an aggressive Oscar, killed all tanks mates except 2 (the Bass and bn) which had to be rehomed has he was trying to kill them. Plus 3 broken heaters, 1 filter, 3 thermometers and god knows how many plants lol
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Never knew a Oscar that liked plants lol.
 
jmf said:
The sad thing is, my Oscar was a part of the family. Sometimes he would for whatever reason get the grumps with me and a family member would have to feed him. But he was an aggressive Oscar, killed all tanks mates except 2 (the Bass and bn) which had to be rehomed has he was trying to kill them. Plus 3 broken heaters, 1 filter, 3 thermometers and god knows how many plants lol
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Never knew a Oscar that liked plants lol.
 
An update on the JD. Made him some more caves but still swimming around crazy. Also, the temp is around 26c (79f) is this too hot?
 
This is the member who snorkeled in water's with wild JD's and very knowledgeable duanes duanes .
 
tlindsey said:
This is the member who snorkeled in water's with wild JD's and very knowledgeable duanes duanes .
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Thanks, might contact duanes if it doesn't settle down. I would have thought it would be exhausted by now lol. I also wonder if it's just adjusting to being by itself.
 
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Ok been doing a couple of things. I tried to video the fish swimming up and down but it stopped the moment it started recording, then started once I gave up lol.

I also did water test using the master test kit. Everything is normal except, Ph seems to be lower than normal for my water 6.6-6.8 and nitrates are 10-15ppm. I did a large water change yesterday before I added the jd, so not sure if to do another. I know my city water has some nitrates in it.

Do you guys think nitrates could be stressing it out?
 
Ok sorry, I think I got worried for nothing. Just gave him some bloodworms, which I don't think he has had before because he didn't know it was food until he tried one then gobbled them down :). I think it's just a hyper fish, it's not scared of me one bit. I can put my hand in the tank and it doesn't bother it.

I think I'm going to have a hyper, fearless and aggressive JD lol. I also thought, such a cute little fish (it's 2-3inch) might turn into a terror lol
 
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He is still doing it today. Up and down, Down and up lol
 
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