Oscar Fish Experiences

[Noddy]

excellent fish for handfeeding.
Mine are very gentle and are cool with all the tankmates.

I just love them, they're the main stars of my tank.

 

[kevinfleming21]

awesome fish, super messy, serial killer, but also family pet. My kids loved him and he was very gentle towards them, but when strangers would come over and feed him....wow, he would take skin off fingers...literally!

 

[scalesandfins]

very easily stressed... mine died after my boa decided to use my tank as a bath tub.
i have heard of them dieing from cleaning there tank and changing filters
i do love them tho. very good fish

 

[m1ste2tea]

I bought mine half a year ago, he's now 6". he grew up in a tank with a senegal bichir and a hujeta gar, and a few months ago he decided to bully the gar and ate one of his eyes and killed him. the bichir is tough and holds his own ground with the oscar. the oscar loves food and is an active swimmer, poops a lot of heavy sinking waste and nibbles at my hand when I clean the tank, thinking Im offering food because he is used to hand feeding. he hasnt been re-arranging anything in the tank yet, and I do have plants growing there as well.

 

[honda237]

very easily stressed... mine died after my boa decided to use my tank as a bath tub.
i have heard of them dieing from cleaning there tank and changing filters
i do love them tho. very good fish

Easily stressed?? I could pet mine, rearrange the tank and many other things, he never gets stressed, I haven't met an Oscar that got stressed easily.

I love Oscar, but I hate to see one get miss treated. They are personal fish that grow very fast (10-12" in a year). Very intelligent fish that get bored easily and love to eat.

 

[kevinfleming21]

very easily stressed... mine died after my boa decided to use my tank as a bath tub.
i have heard of them dieing from cleaning there tank and changing filters
i do love them tho. very good fish

Whaa? I don;t know about that, I think my Oscar stressed ME more with the tank cleaning than I EVER stressed the big guy.

 

[honda237]

^ exactly or everytime I fed him, I get wet.

 

[scalesandfins]

i realy have no idea. that was my only thought my water was fine he was eating fine and growning like crazy. typical oscar. i had a jd with him and he was fine but the day after my boa got in he was dead. he looked very stressed from the snake being in there. i had never herd it before but a freind of mine that had oscars said she had had two that died from stress.
but by no means do i mis treat my fish.

 

[honda237]

i realy have no idea. that was my only thought my water was fine he was eating fine and growning like crazy. typical oscar. i had a jd with him and he was fine but the day after my boa got in he was dead. he looked very stressed from the snake being in there. i had never herd it before but a freind of mine that had oscars said she had had two that died from stress.
but by no means do i mis treat my fish.

Probably something from the boa, is what killed him.

 

[knifegill]

I have had two Oscars and neither were less than 11" after their first year. I'd be assuming a lot to blame you for your Oscar's small size, but how low do you keep the nitrates and what size tank is he in that he's only grown 8" in a year? I'd be worried if my O stayed that small so long. On the other hand, there are some Gary Coleman Oscars out there, so for all I know you're doing a great job and the O is just a tiny O.

My first O:

He was 13" in his first year.

My new O:

He was past 11" by his first anniversary.