How many Oscars can I keep in a 125 with very good filtration (FX5,406,C530) and a good water habits? Have always been a African Person in the past but love these guys where my africans will fly up to the top of the tank just or food my friends Oscar is more like a dog he likes to play and will rub up against you when your cleaning the tank.
To Oscar or Not????
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I'll put it this way, 2 With tank mates and 3 on their own With NOTHING ELSE.
Do you already have tankmates?
I do currently have a couple of pleco's and 2 syno cats. I'm still not sure what I want for fish the oscars are so smart they have personalities all there own. You know I'm thinking I may do another post for some more suggestions? Is there anything out there with similiar personalities that aren't quite so large? I've also always liked Clown loaches such as you have listed. I guess it just comes down to are Oscars or not?
Oscars have great personalities but are kind of ugly. I love the attitude and color of a big bad midas much more.
Are the Midas fairly easy to find? What are possible tankmates in a 125?
I would do 1 oscar and a couple Blood Parrots. They end up being good tank mates. They are also good for attention too. Mine socialize with me all the time, eating from my hand and rearranging the tank...
I had asked my lfs (I always say LFS its more like 100 miles away) about the Blood Parrots. He said it is better with Cichlids to get them young and let them grow as a group? I know with oscars allot is the size, is it they fight as they start to reach breeding age that limits numbers? Again my LFS thought that I should get five or six oscars and let them grow up together so does this hold true for most South/Central American Cichlids. My other issue is that some go by two or three different slang names different from what they label them as online or at the LFS. I know today they color allot of fish which I would like to avoid. I've seen Red Texas, Red Dragon, Blue Flowerhorn, different Midas. So I can start to narrow it down are all these above cichlids natural colored?