oscar in a pond

[Miguel]

I believ that that is too cold.

When putting fish outside one has to begin in the summer and give them time to adapt.

Not "forced training " or some bull like that as posted above.

 

[brockfishhawk]

that will work you have to prep him like training him like week by week like lowering the temp in the tank as low as you can get without filteration but do it very slowly dont rush the oscar or it will be fatal. I have actually preped my 12 inch oscar that i wanted to get rid of because he was such a problem for me. I have a creek behind my house and its not small im talking about 20 miles untill it hits some larger bodies of water. and every week i would take 10 gallons from the creek and pour it into a 40 gallon i had him in for training and i would lower the temps by 5 degress every week and if the water wasnt cold enough i would go to the creek at night and get 5 gallon ands drop it in there. the creek water is not clean at all so this was a huge change for him. i live in maryland, around the edges between md and va you can find oscars/ snake heads in the waters but the snakeheads are being put out by anyone who catches them, but your not doing creek water ne ways, so i made a rock divider that he can not get past or back the other way and it is about 10 feet long from divideer to divider and no hiding spots, so i can check on him, but its been about 6 weeks and hes still there. its about in the 50-60degress here at night maybe 45 n up but its getting colder and colder i dont think he will survive the winter. but your way will work just train him they are hardy fish.

Do not listen to this rubbish. First off, take the thing to LFS and give it the chance to find a decent home with a decent keeper. These are tropical fish, they don't deserve to be forced to live in subpar water temperatures. Secondly, to the quoted, because invasive species are present in a body of water, still does not give us keepers the rights to release more. Please do the hobby world a favor and stop keeping fish.

 

[Natalie]

Way too cold, and please don't do what dgk9723 did. Every fish species has a minimum temperature tolerance, and below that temperature its body won't function correctly (immunity, digestion, cardiovascular system) and it will die. There's nothing you can do to acclimate a fish to a temperature that's below its tolerance. For most tropical cichlids that number is 60 degrees Fahrenheit. I wouldn't even recommend going that low because that's the minimum temperature for that species to survive, not be a healthy, normally functioning fish.

 

[warmouth]

Oscars live in the wild in Florida (Okeechobee, and Istokoba lake) where the water temps get in the low 50s in the winter......if you slowly climatize your Oscar 1st and the water temps dont get below 53 degrees fahrenheit the Oscar should survive.

 

[shua71]

that will work you have to prep him like training him like week by week like lowering the temp in the tank as low as you can get without filteration but do it very slowly dont rush the oscar or it will be fatal. I have actually preped my 12 inch oscar that i wanted to get rid of because he was such a problem for me. I have a creek behind my house and its not small im talking about 20 miles untill it hits some larger bodies of water. and every week i would take 10 gallons from the creek and pour it into a 40 gallon i had him in for training and i would lower the temps by 5 degress every week and if the water wasnt cold enough i would go to the creek at night and get 5 gallon ands drop it in there. the creek water is not clean at all so this was a huge change for him. i live in maryland, around the edges between md and va you can find oscars/ snake heads in the waters but the snakeheads are being put out by anyone who catches them, but your not doing creek water ne ways, so i made a rock divider that he can not get past or back the other way and it is about 10 feet long from divideer to divider and no hiding spots, so i can check on him, but its been about 6 weeks and hes still there. its about in the 50-60degress here at night maybe 45 n up but its getting colder and colder i dont think he will survive the winter. but your way will work just train him they are hardy fish.

Exactly why fish keepers have a bad name..

 

[brockfishhawk]

Oscars live in the wild in Florida (Okeechobee, and Istokoba lake) where the water temps get in the low 50s in the winter......if you slowly climatize your Oscar 1st and the water temps dont get below 53 degrees fahrenheit the Oscar should survive.

"should survive" and live comfortably are two completely opposite things. These fish derive from South America and are not native here. A lot of fish stores take fish in for 0$. Seriously do it a favor and just find it a home instead of forcing it to adapt to a non-native environment.

 

[Zfishies]

How big is the pond, if not to big throw in like 3 300WATT heaters at that temp. But also we need to know your dimensions.

 

[papawoody]

that will work you have to prep him like training him like week by week like lowering the temp in the tank as low as you can get without filteration but do it very slowly dont rush the oscar or it will be fatal. I have actually preped my 12 inch oscar that i wanted to get rid of because he was such a problem for me. I have a creek behind my house and its not small im talking about 20 miles untill it hits some larger bodies of water. and every week i would take 10 gallons from the creek and pour it into a 40 gallon i had him in for training and i would lower the temps by 5 degress every week and if the water wasnt cold enough i would go to the creek at night and get 5 gallon ands drop it in there. the creek water is not clean at all so this was a huge change for him. i live in maryland, around the edges between md and va you can find oscars/ snake heads in the waters but the snakeheads are being put out by anyone who catches them, but your not doing creek water ne ways, so i made a rock divider that he can not get past or back the other way and it is about 10 feet long from divideer to divider and no hiding spots, so i can check on him, but its been about 6 weeks and hes still there. its about in the 50-60degress here at night maybe 45 n up but its getting colder and colder i dont think he will survive the winter. but your way will work just train him they are hardy fish.

you gotta be kidding !

 

[mike b]

^ what he said and everyone else that thought that was a ridiculous statement I agree with knifegill revoke his fishkeeping license seriously man come on no way a fish should be put through something like that like its already been stated please take the fish to an lfs or post here for free Im sure someone will take an oscar

 

[Hernandezj11]

I would have to agree with everyone who is opposed to this. Just because an Oscar can live in those kind of conditions does not mean it should be forced to....