Okay, so I have a tiger oscar that I picked out at about 1.5" long. It is now pushing 3.5". I love tiger oscars and the personality (of pretty much all oscars), but I do not like the olive green color that a lot of Tiger oscars seem to have. I want it to be pretty much black orange except for the white edges of his fins. I painted the back of my aquarium black and put in black tahitian moon sand in an attempt to darken him up. It worked! He has almost none of that olive green color. My concerns are that his orange isn't very prevalent. Could it be that he is still rather small and it hasn't developed fully yet? or is the black aquarium inhibiting his orange development? I feed a variety of quality color enhancing pellets and keep clean water. Currently he only has a the orange "eye on his tail" (I can't remember the technical term for said mark), and some of his striping is filling in toward his tail but the front 3/4 of his body is pretty much all black. Could it just be genetics or could I do something to make the orange stronger?
Tiger Oscar Color "Control"
- Thread starter Wesley M
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It will develop more as he grows but some never develop that much. The back ground may have something to do with it but it's almost impossible to tell how and Oscar will turn out when younger. They might be the best looking one as a baby and not look so good as an adult. I also wouldn't feed any color enhancing foods as I don't believe they actually work. Stick with hikari cichlid bio gold or NLS imo.
+1 I've had stunning babies turn into ugly adults and vice versa. Good food bring out colors more than the the substrate or background. At least ime
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I currently feed NLS cichlasoma formula, Hikari cichlid gold, hikari cichlid staple, omega one cichlid pellet, and shrimp pellets. Should I add something or is this good?