Tankmates for Oscars

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There are quite a few cat choices, any of the synodontis cats, or large pictus-types like 4 line cats, but you'll want a group if you go the pictus route. For a big cat, in the 150, you could try a bullhead or maybe a lima shovenose, but you'll want to buy the lima well grown, they grow much slower than oscars.

Your senegal bichir should be OK with the oscar, but watch them as they grow, I have a senegalus I bought from Petsmart, he's almost 2 years old and barely 7" and thin. A decent size oscar could make a snack of him.
 
wow thx for all the great info everyone . I've been going back and forth trying to figure out what I'm going to set this 75 up as and eventually move to a 150, since my turtles passed . I've gone from a cichlid mix including frontosas, to a single black rhom, to odoes, to red bellies (since i wanted more than one fish), to oscar and cats, so many choices , ugh.
 
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