Tiger oscar color

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When I was raising oscars to look nice and vibrant (and big)the main key for me was varied diet and live insects. Crickets, mealworms, Beatles, locusts, night crawlers etc. I think that a varied diet helps a lot. Aside from those their staple diet was Massivore (for bulk and girth) and hikari bio gold along with other things such as market shrimp, cuts of tilapia fillet freze dried krill smelt. And much much more... In my experiences I find that a variety really brings out the color and not to stick to any one thing permanately because I find that it bores them also. There is no one diet that will bring out color it's the variety that counts.


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Completely agree with above. 2 other keys.. vitamin supplement and pristine water. I use Boyd's Vitachem and change 75% of the Oscar tanks water 2x weekly. Heres a pic of 1 of my fellas. When tigers show the green and yellow tones, they are doing great
 
I will add 1 more important factor, tankspace. If you really want 16in Oscars, and yes, they can reach this size, and your 3 get along ok, I would leave them alone in the 220. I saw you inquiring about tankmates on another thread, pack of FM and such. Bad idea. The Oscar pictured is 2 1/2 yrs old, close to 14ins. Lives in a 7ft 265g with 4 other smaller cichlids. Its def his tank! I have 3 other Oscars over a foot long, have been keeping Oscars 44yrs. Tankspace, clean water and quality diet are the 3 keys to getting them big and living long.
 
I've hard that shrimp can help being out there reds. But like the others said good water lots of space and a varied diet. If your O is stressed our bullied he prob won't show his best colors


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