so i want to have an oscar

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i have a community of 80 gallons tank with 1 red parrot of about 18 cm 1 juvenile texas 8 cm and some africans about 4

so last time i tried to take care of an oscar i had problems with food, the oscars seems like very picky eaters also because of him being a slow swimmer he was getting picked on by others tank mates so i gave him away

will i have problems with a new oscar? also i am scared of him getting bigger and try to eat his tank mates
 
Can't say I've ever heard anyone refer to oscars as picky eaters before... I've kept 3 of them, and never had any issues just feeding them cheap pellets. Predation shouldn't be an issue if you start out with an oscar around the same size or perhaps just a bit smaller than the Texas, but I would worry about aggression being a potential issue. Oscars and Texas cichlids can both be pretty territorial once they reach maturity, and that is not a very large tank for two relatively large, territorial fish to try and coexist in... It could work, or it could turn out badly.
 
I've never heard of one being picky either. But long term that tank is too small for an Oscar, bp, and Texas cichlid.
 
I've never had a picky Oscar.

Also, I agree with jclyde that an 80-gallon with an Oscar, a texas and a bunch of other territorial fish isn't something I'd plan on working, especially if the Oscar is late to the party.

If it were a 150-gallon or 180-gallon, it still might get dicey depending on which "africans" you have.
 
the first oscar i had didn't eat for about 5 days the pellets i offered him he would taste em to later spit the pellets

i am scared to make another tank because i live in the 12th floor so the first tank i made was an 80 gallon tank because i was scared to go bigger because i don't know if the floor can support so much weight on it but definily is something i want in the future a 6 ft tank
 
A lot of fish will refuse food for a while after being introduced to a new tank, and oscars do tend to be messy eaters, spitting out about as much as they take in... How long did you have the old oscar, and what ended up happening to it?
 
about a week or so later on because he was being bullied alot i exchanged it for another fish in my local fish store
 
should have added that he was separated from the rest of the tank lol everytime i buy a new fish i tend to separate em with a divider so fishes will get used to the new fish, i learned this from a friend sometimes it works sometimes when the fish is to big it do not work, when i bought him i had him in the divider for 3 days i think but every rock or place of the tank was the territory of a cichlid so he didn't do well
 
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