oscar behavior

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Yeah i got a bala once and my oscar chomped it within ten minutes. I'd save the other fish if I were you.
 
still said:
Yeah i got a bala once and my oscar chomped it within ten minutes. I'd save the other fish if I were you.
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Yeah the oscar is going tomorrow, the other fish are safe for that amount of time. Their all much bigger than him, so it would take him some time to finish them off.
 
AHHHHH MY TANK IS GOING INSANE!

two of my bala's are showing mating behaviors (still too small (5 in) to produce young, but it looks like I have a pair :headbang2) and its making my Oscar go crazy because they are swimming around so much. He's swimming around nipping anything that he can, so everything is kinda in panic right now. IDK what to do, the oscar really has to go but my LFS closed :nilly:
 
My 10in oscar is very mild now but he was very aggressive when he was like 4-7inches. he mellowed out now that he shares a tank with a turtle. keep him occupied, give him lots of attention, have him begging for food, that should have him less concerned with the other fish.
 
m1ste2tea said:
My 10in oscar is very mild now but he was very aggressive when he was like 4-7inches. he mellowed out now that he shares a tank with a turtle. keep him occupied, give him lots of attention, have him begging for food, that should have him less concerned with the other fish.
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I try to keep him occupied but after a couple minutes he goes off and attacks the other fish.

So tomorrow I'm returning him, if the LFS offers to give me a different one for me to try my luck with, should I take that offer and get a new one? or should I stop because most oscars won't fit in with my setup?
 
Gruff Master said:
There are many set ups with cichlids and schooling fish. Use the search function and you should find plenty. One of your problems is that you offer feeder fish to your cichlids. This will make it very difficult to keep any smaller fish with them. Many people including myself don't practice giving feeder fish to our cichlids. Other than their potential disease and parasite risk, goldfish and the like have very little nutritional value. But that's another topic. You can search that too.
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Yep ive had to listen to that all the time and frankly i dont really care cuz ive been doin it as long as ive had fish and had absolutetly no problems. I dont do it on a regular basis maybe once every month and a half or so. I believe fish are just like every other animal and if they are exposed enough to something they will become more and more immune to it.
 
cmsbthebest said:
AHHHHH MY TANK IS GOING INSANE!

two of my bala's are showing mating behaviors (still too small (5 in) to produce young, but it looks like I have a pair :headbang2) and its making my Oscar go crazy because they are swimming around so much. He's swimming around nipping anything that he can, so everything is kinda in panic right now. IDK what to do, the oscar really has to go but my LFS closed :nilly:
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When you go to turn it in get a ten gallon or twenty gallon the longer you have aquariums the more you are going to need it especially right now when your setting the tank up. You can use it to quarinteen fish seperate fish and many other things. Next oscar you get get a bigger one so you know the behaviour before you put it in the tank so you know its not going to attack your fish. Idk about getting one thats not going to try to eat your fish because oscars seem like natural predators from all of the ones ive seen grow up.
 
cmsbthebest said:
I try to keep him occupied but after a couple minutes he goes off and attacks the other fish.

So tomorrow I'm returning him, if the LFS offers to give me a different one for me to try my luck with, should I take that offer and get a new one? or should I stop because most oscars won't fit in with my setup?
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If your for sure getting the 210
I would just try again but dont impulse buy a bad one!
Watch them for like ten minutes to see which ones are the bullies and then pick from the rest.
 
AngryCichlids said:
When you go to turn it in get a ten gallon or twenty gallon the longer you have aquariums the more you are going to need it especially right now when your setting the tank up. You can use it to quarinteen fish seperate fish and many other things. Next oscar you get get a bigger one so you know the behaviour before you put it in the tank so you know its not going to attack your fish. Idk about getting one thats not going to try to eat your fish because oscars seem like natural predators from all of the ones ive seen grow up.
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I'm not setting a tank up, I've had mine running for over a year and excluding a bacterial infection 7 months ago that killed most of my fish, the black neon tetra is the only fish I've lost in 10 months.

It's not natural for a predator to prey on fish twice its size, which is what this oscar is doing
 
AngryCichlids said:
If your for sure getting the 210
I would just try again but dont impulse buy a bad one!
Watch them for like ten minutes to see which ones are the bullies and then pick from the rest.
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Yeah I'm for sure getting a 210, or something around that size maybe a 200, maybe something slightly bigger.

Yeah now that I think about it, the other two oscars in the tank were staying away from this one and huddeled together, I should have realized he was an aggresive mofo, oh well hopefully I don't screw up next time lol
 
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