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TexOscar1

TexOscar1

Gambusia
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Jul 24, 2014
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Texas
Hello all,
New member, been raising Oscars for the better part of 7-8 years and of course when I was younger. I just recently got back into keeping Oscars. Tragically, 2 years ago my 4 10" plus oscars died due to a power failure during the winter while I was out of town. These two have been with me since then and are approximately 6-7". The aqarium is a 125 gallon 6 foot long tank. I am also raising some zebra and albino tigers in a smaller grow out tank. The largest is about 3 1/2" which is the zebras and the smaller albinos are close to 3". Looking forward to all the information on this site and sharing information I have gained along the way. The last 2 pics are of the zebras which have started to turn red like the tigers, I am confused on that since they are supposed to be more black/grey.

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No, I ordered them from liveaquaria, I ended up calling them a couple weeks ago about it. They said maybe what I am feeding it is bringing out the red, but when I bought them they looked like the zebras I have seen but in the past month they have starting showing the red. Liveaquaria and I are still working things out, and I am hoping to get some zebras.
Those two are my largest, I do have those 4 and two new ones. Another tiger and a longfin tiger.
 
Great looking tank and fish. I gotta ask though.. I infer from your intro post that you've had these fish in the neighborhood of 2 years. At that age they should be double that size.Apologize if I am taking that wrong, but thats kinda what it says?
 
No need for appologies, I didn't get the new oscars immediately after my larger 4 died, hated the loss and decided to try some others. I also lost a silver arowana in that powerfailure, it was about 20". The current oscars are about 12 months old. I believe they are still a little under sized but they didn't get fed the proper amount of food while I was working out of town. Size I have been back for good, I purchased the "zebras" and they have outgained the older ones. That has been about 4 months, the young oscars have gained about 3" give or take while the larger ones have gained maybe 2 1/2". The jeweled cichlid that is with then was with the original 10"+ ones and is about 4 years old since I had it before all my oscars. I don't know as much on the jeweled cichlid but I guess that's as big a it will get?
 
I also see where it said "since then", wrote that wrong. These are the most recent oscars since I lost my larger ones.
 
Ahh.. gotcha, clearer now. Fish do look very healthy. Clean water and tankspace are major factors to grow them big. They really should have that 125 to themselves.
 
They will pretty soon, I am just waiting on another tank to move the jewel to a community based tank with other calmer fish.
 
I was also, thinking each oscar needed about 55-60gallons a piece? Is that still a pretty good amount of space?
Future planning, I would like 4 large oscars in the same tank for a variety. Doing that I was thinking of a 240 gallon tank.
 
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