Tell me about lemon oscars

[Oscarum monstruoso]

My Os. The male's head goes green during spawning.

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Bottom pic is the pair tending eggs

Oh snap. Game over. What do we have here. Now those look quite nice, and Im willing to bet theyre even nicer in person. I think motion really brings out the gold shine and pics only catch a glimpse of it. Those are the nicest I've seen, and a breeding pair to boot. Is their offspring viable, do they throw little gold fry, and do you ever sell/ship babies? Just gorgeous fish, congratulations on achieving somewhat of an Oscar holy grail.

There really isn't much to tell about them. They are a man made strain line bred for a gold/yellow color. They are no different than a red oscar, a tiger oscar, a platinum oscar or a long finned oscar as far as their development goes. You either like them or you don't. Just google "Lemon Oscar" there are pictures of them all over the place.

Thats the thing, I had seen them online before, but it wasnt until I saw one in person that I realized how much their color popped. And that bright gold color, he looked like some kind of sacred lucky fish, like a prize koi or something, just much more impressive than what I had seen online. Until I saw oddball's amazing lemon pair just now, so this thread was very necessary and worthwhile to me.

 

[christian333r]

one question, Lemon oscar is a lutino oscar but with more yellow?

 

[L98Z28]

Just watch buying them that young. I bought 6 from aquascape and they ALL turned into a regular lutino OSCAR. Yellow all turned to orange. And I mean bright orange. The one I really thought would hold his color was super yellow with yellow/black eyes turned bright orange when he hit the 6 inch mark. It's hard to buy young oscars for color or pattern as they change when they get bigger. Here's a pic of my lemon oscar when he was 2.5 inches. I don't have a pic or him when I got rid of him. But trust me he wasn't yellow anymore.


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[crash83]

Any one else carry these guys?
Looking to buy some

 

[convict360]

They are the same as all aquarium strain oscars, just that they have been selected (line bred) to show more yellow.

Lol.

They don't look that good from pics if I'm being honest, I trust you guys judgement though and reckon they probably look much better in the flesh

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[Pippi]

I have bought many Oscars from Aquascape lately they don’t even carry anything worthwhile would you know of a different site to purchase Oscars