New pet

[Hooie]

I'm sitting here looking at my bare 75g tank which is almost at the end of cycling thanks to 7 Zebra Danios. Yesterday I paid for my oscar who I am going to name Felix. I will be picking him up next week (he will be the only fish that I keep in this tank after he eats the Danios).

Anywho, it just occured to me that Felix might not find the 76° degree water to his liking. What is the appropriate temperature to keep an Oscar at? Also, I have 2 Rena Cal Excel 150w heaters and while the glass seems rather thick should I switch to unbreakable heaters eventually?

Thanks for the helpful advise!

side note: I bought a Python to help with weekly PWC for this tank. In getting this tank set up this has been one of the best equipment purchases that I have ever made. It's an affront to common sense to carry buckets 50 ft like I was doing (20g tank). Get one!

 

[rich311k]

76 is fine. The heaters should be ok. When he gets big he may have trying to eat the little orange lights, but you have plenty of time to worry about replacing them.

 

[Menagerie]

Sounds like you're ready for a new pet! We have many oscar keepers here at AA, but another good site is www.oscarfish.com for the nit-picky details involving the care and keeping of oscars. I can't wait to see pics of your new pet

It's an affront to common sense to carry buckets 50 ft like I was doing

Unless that's your weekly work out--still don't have one for my 80, 50 and 46 gal tanks!

 

[evercl92]

Agreed with rich about the heaters. You may not need a new one yet, but my roommates oscar broke 2 glass ones, before he purchased a stainless steel heater. I would say it's a safe move, whenever you decide to replace.

 

[Jaybird]

If you have a canister filter, you could always check out the inline heaters.