Albino oscars are apparently less agressive than your reg oscar, tiger and red. So that mite lower the chances of him getting eaten.
Oscar and pictus cats
- Thread starter brcacti
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my oscar never even looks at my pictus cats... in fact he never bothers anyone except if attacked first
The long silver body of the pictus looks very much like food to most cichlids, try African feather fin.
I have had a pictus and oscar together, never a problem. You will be fine as lone as the pictus is bigger than the oscars mouth
Depends on the O. I've kept many O's over the years and most of them never bothered catfish be they pictus, lima, pleco...even as small as a cory. They'd generally try once but when the taste the armor/spines they'd spit them out. But the O I have now (my first white O - actually a lutino) has a real hard-on for cats. He kills cories, attacks my pleco (no real damage but he still tries), and any "naked" cat like a pictus or even a small channel cat will be bitten until eaten or dead. He's a reall A-hole that way.
Bottom line, it depends on the O (I see that answer to so many O questions in here we should just start writing DotO for short). It would help if the pictus were well-grown...my O is pushing a foot so if I added a cat around 10" or so he'd probably be fine.
Bottom line, it depends on the O (I see that answer to so many O questions in here we should just start writing DotO for short). It would help if the pictus were well-grown...my O is pushing a foot so if I added a cat around 10" or so he'd probably be fine.
I got four oscars with two pictus and a poly delhezi. No problems at all. except that the cats steals the polys food 
I bought my Tiger Oscar and Pictus at the same time and the Oscar was 3" and the Pictus at 4". They get along really well and the Pictus even swims up against the Oscar, pushing him around. They make a fun pair to watch.
I had a pictus with my oscar, they grew up together over the course of three years with little problem, even stil the size difference was so dramatic that I decided not to risk it. There was a member on the oscarfish forum who's oscar tried to eat his pictus. Needless to say it did not get the pictus down, it swallowed it part way and the spine locked up and stuck out of the oscars face. He managed to save the oscar and remove the pictus but the pictus was dead. IMO it's not worth the risk, I won't ever put a catfish with my oscar smaller then 6".
