Pairing oscars?

[Anchovie]

How do you know when oscars have paired off? They stay close to each other? They swim side by side? Could this just be 2 males or 2 females that swim next to each other?


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[keltonsports]

I have always seen oscars swim together. They seem really social. It is really hard to tell the difference between male and female oscars.

 

[Anchovie]

Well yea that's why I'm asking, I know you can't visually sex an Oscar no matter what anyone says, you have to wait for one to lay eggs in order to see the males organ. I was just wondering if they swim together naturally or if they are forming pairs.


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[rwellbaum]

any oscars that i have had always swam together

 

[Anchovie]

So then how do you know when a pair has formed? I'd hate to separate the 2 oscars from their siblings only to find out they were just best buds.


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[rwellbaum]

So then how do you know when a pair has formed? I'd hate to separate the 2 oscars from their siblings only to find out they were just best buds.


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when they lay eggs

 

[EBJDguy]

I had 4 random oscars from three different LFS and i kept them all together for 3 years.... none ever laid eggs, non ever got aggressive with each other. I am assuming that breeding oscars cant be easy.

 

[marauders30]

ive always had oscars swim together or fight lol. but ya, if they get along they swam together all the time.

 

[calibigrob]

With my 2 pair they r male n female n they stay 2gether n also fight as a pair against all other fish, think tht when u can tell when they pair up n fight as 1 plus if they do the swimming dance

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