Oscar lovers: What's your biggest one ever?

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Age, color, length and thickness?

Personality?

I've had a blast with my first Oscar Brick. Someday down the road if I can make space I'd like to get another.

Pics are always good. :grinyes:
 
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Age, color, length and thickness?

Personality?

I've had a blast with my first Oscar Brick. Someday down the road if I can make space I'd like to get another.

Pics are always good. :grinyes:
My biggest one was a major bully named "Lis", once he lost his grow up buddy "Babette" he was shy/depressed for a few weeks afterwards and then turned into a major Ahole. He got to be about 10in before I had enough of it and brought him to my lfs. I'll include an older pic (emfasis on older) of him along with his umm... "Punching bag".

Warning the one pic is not going to be pretty.

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Here is the pic of when I first got Lis and Babette. Also the pleco did kind of earn his punishment he got by stabbing Lis in the side with his left spine. Btw the pleco did make a full recovery from his ordeal.

Also forget to mention I got him at around 2in and he had a dark metallic orange on his side. He was roughly 2 years old when I brought him back to the lfs and around 2in thick as well. I wish that my giant gourami never would've killed Babette, she was such a gorgeous lil super red tiger.

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My biggest one was a major bully named "Lis", once he lost his grow up buddy "Babette" he was shy/depressed for a few weeks afterwards and then turned into a major Ahole. He got to be about 10in before I had enough of it and brought him to my lfs. I'll include an older pic (emfasis on older) of him along with his umm... "Punching bag".

Warning the one pic is not going to be pretty.

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LOL @ peeled Pleco.
 
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LOL @ peeled Pleco.
Lol well he was a normal common pleco untill Lis decided that he had enough of sharing his food/tolerating it, getting spined was just the straw that broke the camels back so to speak. All the pink on the pleco was from Lis repeatedly attacking it. Least to say I would've never thought I would see a fish pull out a pro wrestling move and suplex another fish untill Lis showed me what it looked like.
 
Btw these 2 are another couple of the Oscars that I had after Lis. These 2 were named Goldie and Red, I hoped to breed them but it turned out they were both males. Goldie was rough 8in and Red was 7in when I rehomed them, only rehomed them because I couldn't trust them around anything small enough to eat and the tank they were in sprung a leak so sadly couldn't keep them anymore. Goldie I got as a lemon Oscar while Red was just a lutino tiger.

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We got 7 at our place currently. The two biggest are in a 4500 gal:

8-10 years old,
IDK oscar morphs well enough, looks like tiger
at least 15"-16"
thickness? IDK, 3"?
all show, no damage to anyone

the thread on our fish https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/posts/8170684
 
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