OSCARS ??

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ok i posted this thread before but now its happening so i need help

im gettin a custom 469 tank and for the stock i wanted an oscar community but im not sure 8 oscars will work will it??

if not can you suggest a stock for it includin 3 oscars 1 c.k ect im not really into rays or aros so yh
 
what about mixing a group of oscars with some other-more docile SA/CA cichlids? like chocolates, silver dollars, severums, pearsi, some kind of vieja.. that tank is big enough to do so.
 
thts xactly wht i was thinkin like a nice community but i was thinking of going along with sum jd,gt clown knife,and mayb 2 other species but i dnt kino wht i really wanna catfish is there any suitable for this tank and stock??
 
with the larger fish stock depending on the footprint a lima shovelnose might be a nice cat to add. depending on what else you plan maybe a tire track eel or a fire eel? I have fire eels in with my Oscar atm. when my O is sleeping at night my eels are active so the tank is never a boreing place. not sure about mixing the lima w/ the eels. that size tank I'de also have to add some nice plecos too ;) But thats just me.
 
My fire eel takes prawn from my hand, they really are great fish however they can be quite sensitive to certain tank mates, including boistrous catfish and loaches who will reach the food first.
 
2 O cichlids
2 chocolate cichlids
4 severums

and some bottom dwellers and dithers !!
 
In my 250 g I've now got an Oscar, an S. leucosticta (Eartheater cichlid), 10 big CLown Loaches, 5 Silver Dollars, a small female Convict & a female Severum. I move fish around a lot but that's what's in there right now. It works great and that tank's got energy and activity to burn. I think you'd be real happy with a group of 4-5 Oscars (not 3 though-that never works) and add some Silver Dollars, some cool looking Syno Cats, and you could easily add a group of Geophagus (Eartheaters). They're worth their weight in gold as far as sifting through the sand and getting every last scrap of food the Oscars leave-and they'll leave a LOT. For some reason not one of my 6 Oscars acted like they noticed the Geos when they were in their tanks. I guess because Geos occupy a different area of the tank that Oscars don't see them as a threat. The biggest challenge will be the Oscars getting along once they hit sexual maturity. Just because they grow up together doesn't mean they'll get along as adults.
 
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