Wild ‘Columbia’ Oscars

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Polyaddict86 said:
Biggeat one i saw was a 14”, i had some before that were only 9”-11”.
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My Pearsei is 14" but very thick. So I can easily imagine an oscar of similar size since the build is similar. But I never see Oscar that big anymore.... I do see a lot at about 10" that get brought in to the local fish store. many of these have horrible hunchback and look pretty deformed too.
 
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DMD123 said:
My Pearsei is 14" but very thick. So I can easily imagine an oscar of similar size since the build is similar. But I never see Oscar that big anymore.... I do see a lot at about 10" that get brought in to the local fish store. many of these have horrible hunchback and look pretty deformed too.
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I also noticed the bigger oscar colors kinda fades, idk if its a cb thing tho.
 
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I don't think it has to do with there size I bet it's more of an age thing
 
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A few new pics

Oscar #3 still showing my favorite contrast of pattern
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Fat little bellies
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The guys school together and look for each other. So tempted to keep all three if they continued the behavior. but I dont want that much bioload.
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Fish come in and out of fashion, I think the last few years oscars haven't been widely kept by experienced keepers, so less about that have had the time and care to grow out some monsters.
 
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wow weird picture issues.... when I looked at my post #84 the bottom three pics were not showing. It was too late to edit so I went and reposted those pics in post #87 and now the pics showed back up in the original post. lol

So the Oscars are all eating well and are coming to the surface to feed. I got them used to the Fluval Cichlid Bug Bites and they have had blood worms. The blood worm actually seem a bit large for them still so I will wait a few weeks to feed these again. I also purchase one package of frozen beef heart, I know not a recommended course to use regularly but I do believe at an early stage it does promote growth so I bought one small package to use and that will be it.
 
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