Oscar colors

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Good Diet

Good Pellets (hikari gold pellets) others might disagree

Patience

And a stress free clean tank :D

check out my oscar i do have better pictures but his colour is getting much brighter slowly but surely.

Also pictures? :D
 
hikari deff and maybe some real food like meats veggies try carrot and peas and lettuce
 
a good healthy diet and clean water.....i have the back, the bottom, and the two sides of this tank painted black.....might of have brought out the color.

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I use Hikari BioGold+ for pellets (40-50% of their diet) but mine had awesome color when I was just using regular Hikari. Since they were babies I've also always fed mussel, crayfish, krill, earthworms, spirilina, crickets. One of the biggest factors is using real dark substrate. When my Red Oscar was temporarily in the 125 g with light sand (while we were setting up his 250 gal) his base color was more that greenish color although his red did stay super red. Once he got into his permanent tank with dark brown sand his base color turned solid black with the red. Made him look a lot better.
They also won't get their bright red until they're usually around 7-8", if your Oscar is smaller than that just feed him good, change lots of water and wait.
Edit: Actually I shoul've said THE biggest factor is keeping nitrates low IMO.
 
Diet does a part of the coloration but I think its more genetic offsprings.. This is why I am very selective of oscars, or fish in general. Took me a couple months to find one that I was satisfied with.
I'm currently feeding Hikari bio gold and excel. Occasional beefheart and market prawns.
Black black background helps as well.
 
I have good results with Discus pellets for this guy-

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I OWNED LOTS OF THEM MINE WOULD CHANGE COLORS WITH THERE MOOD THEY U THERE COLOR TO SEND MESSAGES TO EACH OTHER OR WHEN THEY ARE HAPPY OR SAD. DO YOURS SLEEP ON THERE SIDE MINE DID ? I LOVED MY OSCARS THEY ARE EMOTIONAL
 
I use Hikari Gold and Tetra Cichlid Sticks, I have good results and very happy Oscars. My Albino Tiger lays on his side under a holy rock sometimes LOL. I love Oscars they have very entertaining personalities.
 
krill works wonders my oscar went from having the white edging on his tail when i bought him to a red edging in a month with omega one cichlid pellets and krill about 50-50%
 
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