super red oscars

[Connor0729]

if they are dyed, how come blueberry and strawberry oscars don't have as intense coloring as these?

i believe that they are either bred to look like that, or, because of the red eyes, i think that they may be red albinos.

but who knows?

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

ummm perhaps it was died a few times for the intense colouration

 

[Connor0729]

Well if that is a new color strand then I can't wait until they become more readily available. I'll own one (or two) in a heartbeat.

C'mon breeders, do your thing.

 

[bolty]

I looked into these and all the people I asked and all the info I found out said they was NOT coloured/dyed

 

[blackwind]

There are albino red and albino super red oscars. As for someone who has them in stock I didn't see any at the momment but I didn't look real hard.
http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Cichlid, Oscars Chapter 3.htm
has them listed but they don't ship even if they had some.

 

[andyourblueblood]

the only red eyed oscars are albino. albino means lacking pigment witch these o's are not! im still uncertain as to the origin of these o's. just does not seem natural. maybe im wrong but can you blame me for being skeptical!?!? i dont like o's all that much but these are almost too good to be true!

 

[big train]

P.M. rockygoldy and ask for a recent pic.If those O's are dyed that color for sure they have grown out of it somewhat by now. All the dyed o's i have seen blueberry, strawberry etc.. look cool at 2-3" then at 6" it's mostly washed out and by 8-10" the color is gone completly i know a guy that used to have a blue beery o now he's just got a albino haha.I love the color on these o's as well it would be cool if they are realllly that color i will have to get 1 as well i haven't had a oscer in years.

 

[Pnoiz1]

I was at the LFS last Friday and I took this photo of a Blueberry Oscar with my phone. Sorry for the quality. I asked an employee about them and he said that they are dyed Albinos and will lose the blue when they get larger.

In person, the blue looked as if it was going to come off within a few days.

 

[Acestro]

Geez that's sick.

But I can see the albino reds being selectively bred for this. Remember that albino doesn't mean 'all white', it means a lack of melanin (the dark pigment). Albino oscars do have red, just like an albino python will have yellow.

 

[dlp40]

Those red oscars may be breed like the new trend, GLOOW FISH. You know the ones with re,yellow, orange, or green zebra dainos. Now if they are like those then they're not dyed they're geneticlly dna configured for the glowing red. I read an artical in tropical fish mag. months ago. Shoot it could have been a year almost. But I think they're like these glo-fish and their DNA was messed with.

Does any body know if they glow under black light? If they do then their definitlly like glo-fish!