Oscars at Fish Story

thebiggerthebetter · Nov 21, 2019

Thought I'd cave in and pay the stellar hobby staple its due as the number of oscars coming to our venue and sometimes passing to other homes increases.

There is one typical oscar in this tank (but with a manged up upper lip) and one different oscar species in this tank. Some said crassipinnis but Jason Gone Fishing said Astronotus orbicularis.

A couple of recent rescues. One oscar has a mangled up lower lip:

TAT2DRAGON · Nov 22, 2019

thebiggerthebetter said:
Thought I'd cave in and pay the stellar hobby staple its due as the number of oscars coming to our venue and sometimes passing to other homes increases.

There is one typical oscar in this tank (but with a manged up upper lip) and one different oscar species in this tank. Some said crassipinnis but Jason Gone Fishing said Astronotus orbicularis.

A couple of recent rescues. One oscar has a mangled up lower lip:

it is definitely obicularis

BichirKing · Nov 22, 2019

you have the biggest Oscars I've ever seen!

thebiggerthebetter · Nov 22, 2019

BichirKing said:
you have the biggest Oscars I've ever seen!

But these are in the 4500 gal. Thank you

They are very old and around 14"-16" or some such. The champions are said to break 18".

dr exum · Nov 22, 2019

Out of curiosity do you have groups come through to look at your fish? The pallet path ways...

I like the hanger/super garage building! Did you build it for the fish or just happen to have 20000sf building on hand?

jealous, Only have an 8500sf lot, no where to build a structure like that...

do you use solar? Collect rain water?

Nice collection!

thebiggerthebetter · Nov 22, 2019

Thank you! We could take it up in my Video Lounge thread, where it'd be much better fitted but quickly...

My wife and I have been building a DIY Public aquarium since 2011, slowly, so yes, the idea is to charge admission and have people visit, just like any other zoo or aquarium. We do a bit of rescuing fish too.

Yes, the fish house pavilions were built by us too, a 55'x55' (roughy 3000 sq ft) and a 100'x30' (another 3000 sq ft), so far. Not even close to the 20,000 haha

No solar. No rain water collection. Both have been considered and rejected.

But we are on a well water and make and spend ~8,000 gallons of RO/well water at 80%/20% mix every day to effect a 100% water change in all our tanks (55,000 gal total with sumps) in a week or under, so the rainwater collection won't help us much, not to mention the tech and ops and $$$ to have it collected and automated.

If you'd like to go on, please, let's not do it in this thread.

FINWIN · Mar 5, 2020

thebiggerthebetter said:
But these are in the 4500 gal. Thank you They are very old and around 14"-16" or some such. The champions are said to break 18".

wow

thebiggerthebetter · Apr 12, 2020

All oscars go to 1800 gal from all the 240 gal tanks and two jumbos from 4500 gal.

0:00, 4:20, 17:00, 34:40 minutes:

FINWIN · Apr 12, 2020

Lol, showoff.

I have that exact same net for my O!

thebiggerthebetter · May 12, 2020

Some random photos in the 1800 gal.

One of the big guys named, well Oscar, a rescue from about 5 years ago. It came at 8" with badly bulging eyes, which nevertheless didn't seem to bother it. Oscar had done well and grew to about 14"-16" in 4500 gal. At some point not long ago, maybe a year ago, I have greatly diminished the night light I give to the tank as one of my hypothesis for losing a lot of fish was not enough rest / dark time at nights.

Unfortunately for Oscar, the tank mates (perhaps the gars) have damage both of its eyes in the increased darkness. It stopped feeding for a long time after that and was sulking in the corner, curiously accompanied by the other big oscar named Titanium all the time. Now in the 1800 gal, I see it grab some feed every now and then.

It's old, probably 8 years old.