oscars sulking

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mbunafishkeeper

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i was wondering how long oscars can sulk for..? well the longest yours has.

my dads one when he first got it sulked for about 3-4days.
 
The longest I have personally seen is permanent...He eventually died from bad care. They can sulk out of the blue also. The longest for me is a day or so. Another guy I work with says he has one that is sulking, and has been for almost a year..(bad care again/small tank)
 
My oscar sulks, I guess, but I would call it being more posh than sulking. He goes to the top slowly for food and all the fish get out of his way, the jag, snook, salvini, and he eyes a group of pellets and then carefully just sucks them into his mouth and swims away slowly.

He is far from the jumping-out-of-water-attacking-food oscar behavior, but thats how he has always been.

Its fine with me, saves me money on food for not being a pig.
 
I changed the background of my tank to black. He hated it and sulked for 3 weeks. I changed it back to what I had and he came back to his old self in 3-4 days.

I thought he was going to act like that forever.
 
ok yeh my dads goes into this mood occasionally.

thanks for the replys.

howard
 
mbunafishkeeper;1441649; said:
i was wondering how long oscars can sulk for..? well the longest yours has.

my dads one when he first got it sulked for about 3-4days.

My Oscar sulked for a week when i put a piece of driftwood in his tank. He wouldn't come near it or eat for a week, I guess he got over it eventually. Sometimes Oscars act like little brats when they don't have their way, but get over it just the same. Its just part of their little personalities.
 
ok kool. did your oscars eat while he sulked?
 
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