Punkymom
Aquarium Advice FINatic
Well, Friday I picked up a 75 gallon tank from a lady. She gave me a large Oscar as well as various other fish. I took all the other fish to the LFS because the lady was uneducated and was keeping african/lake malawi cichlids with an Oscar. I wasn't planning on keeping the Oscar, either, because when I started out, I had 2 Oscars and the one I still have killed his brother. Well, I had to put them all in the tank that first night otherwise they would have had to spend the night in a bucket and that just wasn't going to happen. So my Oscar and the other Oscar are swimming side by side and shaking their tails at each other and just generally being sweet to one another. Is there anything I should watch for? I haven't been able to get the bigger one to eat until today. I bought her a couple of large goldfish (don't normally feed, but figured it might trigger a reflex and it did) and my Jack Dempsey got a few as well. My smaller Oscar grabbed up the largest goldfish and swam around chewing on this fish for like 30 min. It was too funny. I know that 2 Oscars, a Jack Dempsey and a Pleco is too much for a 75, but I can't bear to get rid of the bigger Oscar and anyway, next year I'll buy them a 150 gal tank.