Oscar Progess and Updates
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Haven't been on much being my usual busy self. Just wanted to give
Jexnell
an update on Toni! She is still chillin in her 150 with her catfish buddy. I've got a pond set up for her outside but I'm just waiting for the warm weather to stabilize before she can go out. She's still just as bratty and spoiled as ever.
Jexnell
an update on Toni! She is still chillin in her 150 with her catfish buddy. I've got a pond set up for her outside but I'm just waiting for the warm weather to stabilize before she can go out. She's still just as bratty and spoiled as ever. 
She's even more beautiful! Look at them streamers on her pelvic fins.
So mid way thru this month she will be two years old, not counting breeder time or in store time.
So mid way thru this month she will be two years old, not counting breeder time or in store time.
I will try to remember to get a measure on her when I move her outside but right now she is definitely longer than a 12in ruler. She still gets carnisticks but it take ALOT to fill her up on those. She gets a heavy serving of fresh foods. She loves shrimp and scallops. Live foods are large night crawlers, medium sized cray fish, baby axolotls, and extra large crickets.
Hey, if any of those baby axolotls look particularly nice I might could take some off your hands!
Toni looks wonderful. I hope our Os turn out that nice.
Oscars seem to have a knack for interspecies friendships like Toni and her catfish. Ours have accepted a blood parrot cichlid as an honorary O. They swim together, sleep together and touch her with their fins like she was one of them.
ETA: I covet your lemon Oscar. Where did you get him?
The lemon was a gift from a friend who breeds color varieties that are harder to come by here. I have seen lemon Os on live aquaria tho.
Toni is a gental giant. She would get along with anyone who can't fit in her face and is willing to live in peace. She defiantly has big personality!
Since I live in VA, I have to have a permit to keep the axolotls but a stipulation is that I can't intentionally breed them and transfer ownership. I can't ship them out either. VA considers that trafficking a restricted species.
Its a shame because we do get some neat looking ones from time to time. We even had one that was split colored. It was yellow speckled on the left side and solid white on the right. Tried to raise that one but it never would eat well.
Aw, that's unfortunate. We have a lovely lady axolotl who's been pining for a mate. If VA didn't have those restrictions I'd be all over those babies.
The split axolotl sounds like it may have been a chimera. You see chimerism in cats sometimes and even in people. If that's true there were 2 embryos in the egg and one was absorbed into the other. It ate / became its own twin.
Will have to keep an eye on Live Aquaria. I have heard mixed reviews on them, but of all places our axolotl came from there out of their WYSIWYG Diver's Den. She was packed like they were sending her into a war zone and they expected her box to have to withstand heavy fire. I was impressed.
We keep a lot of very different fish species and each is special in one way or another. However I've got to say the Oscars take the prize for charm. I didn't expect to love those big lunkers as much as I do. We're working on a 700+ gallon tank for our silver Arowana and I had planned to stock it with just 2 Os and several other species as buddies. Instead I find myself simply adding Oscars.
I've bought inverts from liveaquaria and always had good experience with them in that reguard. Haven't purchased fish from them yet tho. We got our axolotls from axolotlfactory.com . I can reccomend that source with confidence. They were very carefully packaged, healthy, and showed up with all their body parts in tact. The breeder was very knowledgeable and quick to reply to any questions or concerns.Aw, that's unfortunate. We have a lovely lady axolotl who's been pining for a mate. If VA didn't have those restrictions I'd be all over those babies.
The split axolotl sounds like it may have been a chimera. You see chimerism in cats sometimes and even in people. If that's true there were 2 embryos in the egg and one was absorbed into the other. It ate / became its own twin.
Will have to keep an eye on Live Aquaria. I have heard mixed reviews on them, but of all places our axolotl came from there out of their WYSIWYG Diver's Den. She was packed like they were sending her into a war zone and they expected her box to have to withstand heavy fire. I was impressed.
We keep a lot of very different fish species and each is special in one way or another. However I've got to say the Oscars take the prize for charm. I didn't expect to love those big lunkers as much as I do. We're working on a 700+ gallon tank for our silver Arowana and I had planned to stock it with just 2 Os and several other species as buddies. Instead I find myself simply adding Oscars.
I've gotten attached to our oscars and have rescued a few more. I can't believe I spent so many years avoiding them because of misconceptions and misinformation.
