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OmniTranz;3325654; said:
I agree, oscars can be a pain in the arse....but WOW the colors on yours are amazing! Have you tried putting other oscars in there with him/her? I've found that if they have other oscar tank mates they tend to ignore other species.

Thanks. I mainly bought him because my wife likes him. He's the "pretty fish" in the tank as she says. I actually got him from Petsmart. He was by himself because he kicked the crap out of all the other oscars he was in with. So needless to say, no, I've never kept him with another oscar. He does however live was a Florida Gar, a JD and a Convict and doesn't really bother them. But he acts like a bull in a china shop when it's feeding time.
 
Yeah, Oscars seem to do better alone. With that guy, I'd give him his own tank. He's awesome enough to be worth it.
 
Mine was a precious little male Msobo deep (Lake Malawi Mbuna). I got him as this tiny yellow juvy with a few specks of dark on him (if you look in the picture you can see the blue- sorry for bad picture, btw).
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He'd been swimming peacefully in my tank for about a week before he started really changing- he ended up this breathtaking almost navy blue with electric blue stripes- he was prettier than pictures I found on the net. He was still pretty small.Well, he killed:
6 Yellow-tail Acei
1 Clown Pleco
4 Cory Cats (Adults)

It was so awful, I dreaded going to the tank first thing in the morning, to see who had died that night. He didn't stop his murderous rampage until I dumped a whole bunch of other fish in with him (having to buy more Msobos and some Hongis online since they're next to impossible to find here). Then, my Red Zebra male started breeding and they had horrible fights- same with a Hongi male- who got an injury, then fungus which led to the crash of the ENTIRE tank. When he and the Red Zebra would battle, on the rare ocasion he lost, he would turn extremely pale, losing the electric blue, until he swam into his cave, then picked on the females and weaker males to feel like a man again- then he would be pretty again.

So, if you count the tank collapse precipitated by him, he wiped out an entire tank and committed suicide.
 
I don't have a pic of him right now, but my 4" Red Dragon Flowerhorn is a hand full, he has killed about $200 worth of yellow lab fry in the grow out tank, he was only 1.5" the labs were about 2.5"...he killed about 75 of them in one night... still love him though.
 
This guy is going to be a handfull.....

Regularly has a shoal of footlong Odoes pinned in different corners of the tank. He's only been in there for a week.....

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