What kind of Oscar

[tlindsey]

live foods

Hopefully your friend raises his own.

 

[NoodleCats]

Hopefully your friend raises his own.

Yes he does. Guppies mostly.

He cares for bichirs, clown loaches, and a monster pleco as well as the Oscar. Them clowns he has live better than me hahaha

 

[Randles]

Frozen mysis, frozen bloodworms, crushed northfin carnivore pellets, Bug Bites, and New Life Spectrum flakes was my plan until my friend takes him in, which he does more live foods for his.

I keep mostly small fish, exception of hoplos, a common pleco, and goldfish. A large cichlid is definitely new ground for me, but I am not planning to keep him, a home is lined up. My only large tank is not suitable for an Oscar lol

Diet should be alright for the short time I've got him, yes?

Diet sound spot on for this stage. Lovely little O you have there, he does look a bit wildish to me but its very early days and as previously stated they change a lot over time.

One of my My O's. Baby:


8 Months later:

 

[Fishman Dave]

I don't know oscars well, usually tigers I've seen are black and red not brown and white, thats what's thrown me off haha

One of my local fish shops got some astronotus crassipinis (astronotus oscillatus are red tigers) in and they look even more weird as juveniles as they have the same patterning but are proper dark brown and white rather than brown and yellowy. I always think Oscars look much better young than they do old but that's a matter of opinion.

 

[NoodleCats]

One of my local fish shops got some astronotus crassipinis (astronotus oscillatus are red tigers) in and they look even more weird as juveniles as they have the same patterning but are proper dark brown and white rather than brown and yellowy. I always think Oscars look much better young than they do old but that's a matter of opinion.

What are the odds he is astronotus crassipinis? He definitely resembles some of the baby photos of those too. I'll see how he looks today more coloured up, but he's definitely more a brown white/yellow to me than red thus far.

 

[Deadeye]

What are the odds he is astronotus crassipinis? He definitely resembles some of the baby photos of those too. I'll see how he looks today more coloured up, but he's definitely more a brown white/yellow to me than red thus far.

I doubt it just because they are rather rare. A store would likely sell one as such.

 

[NoodleCats]

Hes coloured up today, he's a stunner.

Makes me consider them in the future, what an adorable fish, I love his puppy dog eyes.

 

[NoodleCats]

Update:
Hes been picked up and is off to live his best life now. As he grows ill get photo updates to see how he ends up changing.

 

[SalviniCichlidFan]

Juvenile oscars kind of look like African bush fishes (ctenopoma)

 

[NoodleCats]

Juvenile oscars kind of look like African bush fishes (ctenopoma)

Right? That's actually what I first thought he was.