Tips on picking an oscar?

[djlamonica]

I was planning on adding an oscar into my 90 with some sevrums and a parrot fish (stock is still undecided). Anyways is there anything in particular I should be looking for when choosing an oscar I'm definatly going tiger or albino tiger but the ones at my lfs look pretty said actaully the best looking ones are at my petsmart, but is there anything in particular I should be looking for when choosing an oscar?

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[rwellbaum]

i always choose the most active one

 

[Dial92]

most active and good coloring you can tell as a little one what they are going to kind of look like as an adult

 

[djlamonica]

Sounds good only reason I ask is because everything I've looked at so far is just kind of dingy looking,pal, not the striping I'm looking for didn't no how drasticly it changed from juvi to adult. So basicly just pick one I like the pattern and is active and ill be good.
Thanks!


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[Dial92]

in tigers the black will turn a more dark green just to let you know

 

[Adamrhh]

i like and have a albino tiger love them

 

[spike38]

Here is my albino Oscars "Brutus and Cleo" at 3" when I got them, and about 14" now.

Spike

 

[Mike4155]

I bought my O from Petsmarts when he was about 2.5 inches now he's pushing about 8 inches and has beautiful colors. Just hold out on one that is active and colorful. That's what I did.


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[superman818]

Pick an active Oscar with nice colors. In my experience Albino Oscars tend to be less aggressive then Tiger Oscars. Not say Albinos can't
be aggressive but on average they are more mellow. At least for me they have been.

 

[Chrisplosion]

I would say make sure you check the eyes and the mouth for deformities. I would avoid Albino all together. If it were me looking for one I would find a nice small Tiger with no red markings.