Oscars are the funniest cichlids. who agrees with me? :D

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today i left the lid of my tank up because i was syphoning water and my friend had a cigarette in his hand hanging just over the lid. he was watching TV and i was staring into space when i noticed the oscar trying to strike something above the water line

now, my oscar is a crappy jumper. but all i see is my friends cigarette in his hand and a round bald oscar forehead bobbing up and down trying to "jump" and grab his cigarette. lol didnt make any sounds or any splashes but you just see this funny little head poking briefly out of the tank lid opening and disappearing over and over again. ROFL.

oscars are like dogs literally, there are some dogs that if i stare at them long enough they just look funny. same goes with oscars ahahaha
 
Agreed. I also have a story. My dad was looking at my new Texas a couple days ago and wanted to feed it to see him up close. He opens the bottle of mysis shrimp and holds it over the water, my oscar catches a glimpse, and takes a full launch at the bottle. Knocks the bottle out of my dad's hand, shrimp go flying everywhere, and the oscar lands on my bed. Completely unharmed, by the way. My dad proceeded to pick him up and put him back in the tank where he just went about eating. :lol2:
 
LOL. man, if every oscar acted like these ones do. the LFSs would simply hold a shrimp at at angle and have a big net ready to catch all the oscars that fly themselves out of the water.
 
I love Oscars. out of most of the fish I have kept, they seem to almost have the most personality. One time I was sprinkling some flakes in the tank to feed the feeders (yes odd I know) when my tiger oscar jumped and knocked the can of flakes into the tank where him and my red chowed down. My girlfriend was shocked that they would do something like that while I tried to clean the tank for the second time that day. *sighs* I miss my oscars. I need get a couple again.:naughty:
 
they should be renamed to clown cichlids.
 
i have 2 in a 300 stock pond. i have to throw in some pellets from a distance before the oscars can see me. if i don't they jump about a foot out of the water and sometimes end up over the bamboo border and on the grass. they don't do this with my wife, visitors, dogs or cats, just me. and it's not the can of krill either, i get the same reaction even when i don't have any food. i will always own an oscar, just for fun.
 
Mine seems to think my fingers are food and occasionally takes a chomp on my hand when it's in the tank. He hasn't really jumped yet, I think he's too small still.
Retuks;3183434; said:
LOL. man, if every oscar acted like these ones do. the LFSs would simply hold a shrimp at at angle and have a big net ready to catch all the oscars that fly themselves out of the water.
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Haha, as if oscars actually avoid the nets at LFS. They pretty much swim straight into it.
 
I remember reading an article about using Oscars for scienticfic testing for fish eyesight. There's Oscar tanks along 3 walls of our livingroom. I know how well they see because when I feed the 1st tank at feeding time and turn around. There's 4 other Oscars across the room mashing their faces up to the glass wagging their back ends & opening and closing their mouths lol I LOVE these fish! Dearly love em'. My Flowerhorn is sociable but not 'pet-like'. The Oscars are truly like my dogs when it comes to greeting me and seeming to genuinely LIKE me.
 
My oscar jumped probably over 6" out of the water today and bit me because I had a handful of krill near the tank
 
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