oscar is terrible

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I can't even begin to tell you how many times I have had to pull fish and take them to the pet store to drop off and forget about...

Its very easy to have this prob. Some of the common methods to try and fix this is to 1st have propper hiding spots. Also, rearrange the stuff inside the tank. Sometimes it make the old fish feel as if its a new enviormnet.

And what I have had luck with myself is, I have a clear plastic 5gal type of bucket with a lid. I put the mean fish in the bucket and sink it right in the tank with said mates. Soemtimes it'll work. Sometimes not.

I just did this with a Red tailed Shark and my baby sinspylums. It took me about 1 week and it worked!! Very please! Oh and if you do this, let the "mean" fish out for a few hours, feed them together, then before bed (unless immediately beets upon said fish) put him in for the night. Everyone will be good til next day.
 
You said in another thread that your green severum was terrorizing everthing? If you removed the green severum then the oscar is going to be the dominate fish. Everytime you remove a dominate fish another cichlid will take it's spot. That's just the way it works. Since you got a new severum the oscar is going to act the same way toward the new severum that the old severum did toward the oscar. Try rearranging your tank so that it looks different and the oscar might calm down.
 
Get a bigger tank and it will (probably) solve your problems. IMO a 75G is good for one full grown Oscar with nothing else in his territory, I would guess that an O with tankmates in a 75 might be aggressive due to the small (4' x 1.5') territory.
 
Any updates? What was the final outcome?
 
had a simular problem with my jag. At the end I took the jag out for a few days then replaced her. jag was still aggressive but my oscar was not submissive and they finally settled after 3 days.
 
if you want to keep your oscar, but dont want a single fish tank, put in a pleco! theyre pretty fun to watch and the oscar wont bother it, they're armoured
 
you could try maybe some fish as aggressive if not more aggressive as he is, when i want to introduce another fish into my oscar tank, trust me they act the same way, i always do it right after a water change and i mix everything in the tank up, try that move all of the decorations in his tank around, it should wrk good luck
 
^ LOL... thats the same thing my BF said when we were getting O's.

It didn't happen...
 
my male FH killed its whole tank off in 2 night when he was 2.5"....my female FH is a complete wimp and gets bullied all the time by a bollivian ram lol ram is 2" FH is 6"
 
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