Walmart Oscars

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assorted like frozen foods like, bloodwormz, brineshrimp, silversides, krill ETC
pelletes BUT NO LIVE FEEDERfish=parasites,and diease. they also love eating crickets or wormsearth
but are you going to upgrade and what kind of filtration are you running on the 10g
 
Expect fish that can reach 18 inches, eat more than a small dog, require 50 water changes every other day and some really cool, personable fish.


Good luck.
 
50% changes every other day is a bit extreme if you have the right size tank and good filtration. The bigger the better.

You really need to upgrade immediately. I'm assuming your current tank probably isn't cycled. This means that you really need to upgrade, and get some Seachem "cycle" to help get you going a little faster.

I have 3 oscars. I just picked up a new one tonight. From walmart... only because they got a REALLY good shipment in.

IMG_5566 by muffywrx, on Flickr

Oscars are fun, and if you really want to keep them alive and watch them grow (they grow FAST), then you need at least 55gal per oscar MIN, and recommended 75gal per oscar. I have a 125 gal for 2 oscars that hopefully will pair up and a 75 for the other. You can find good deals on craigslist or here on MFK a lot of the times. You can keep them in a 55 or something for now if you find a decent deal, but please get them moved soon or else they will die.

The reason they are going to die is because in the 10 gallon, while they have plenty of room it seems, their waste (=ammonia) will build up, which is really toxic to fish. And because you probably just set up your tank, you have no beneficial bacteria (BB) to convert it to nitrite and then to nitrate. Nitrite is also toxic, and nitrate is only slightly toxic. In a 10 gallon tank, ammonia is going to build up really fast. And your fish will die. If it were cycled, nitrates would build up really fast, and while less toxic, you would have to do water changes every day and this is hard on the fish too, just not as bad as poisoning them.

At least get a bottle of seachem "prime" as well and it will detoxify the ammonia for I think up to 48 hours. The BB can still feed off of it and can still develop ...

If you can't do any of this stuff, you should take the fish to a local fish store (not back to walmart, they will probably flush them, and not to petsmart or petco). Look up one online.

I hope some of this was of some help, and I hope you take it to heart.

Keeping 2 baby oscars in a 10 gallon may look okay, but believe me they will produce way too much waste (and you won't know it until they are dead) to live in it for very long, at least not without suffering :(
 
PS ... If you have any more questions feel free to PM me.

They are fun fish to take care of, beg for food, and wag their fins at you :) I hope you decide to keep them and upgrade to a very large tank to accomodate :) IF not, maybe keep one and get a good size tank for it.

I feed mine hikari pellets (all the floating varieties - staple, gold, and bio gold+), frozen peas, beef heart (good for growth!), baby gammarus, freeze dried krill, bloodworms, crickets, superworms/mealworms, and soon they will be getting a few extra nightcrawlers after fishing trips :) I do feed them culled guppies as well, but since I breed them I am 100% sure they are disease free. It's the only way I've found to get rid of the rabbits >.<

Good luck :)
 
Sounds like a troll job. But even if this guy were serious hes an idiot for grabbing fish he knows nothing about. I mean he doesn't even have a clue on what to feed them.
 
Actually after skimming through some of his posts it seems he just doesn't know anything about fish. Seems like he already had some issues with a keeping a bass and has not taken the advice he was given. He also inquired about what to put in a 10 gallon and did not listen either. Being a fish noob and learning is one thing, but sounds more like a stubborn person not willing to listen and do what's right for the fish after known what is right/wrong.
 
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