Oscar compatibility

[Mcgolg76]

Haven't added anything to my 75 community in awhile. Thinking of converting it for an oscar. I know I have to rehome my smaller fish. Wondering if i could keep my peacock eel, brown knife fish and bristlenose pleco. Got plenty of drift wood for hiding. Only see my eel like once a month. Usually buried in the sand. If I get the oscar as a baby will this work.


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[rockyofhockey]

Haven't added anything to my 75 community in awhile. Thinking of converting it for an oscar. I know I have to rehome my smaller fish. Wondering if i could keep my peacock eel, brown knife fish and bristlenose pleco. Got plenty of drift wood for hiding. Only see my eel like once a month. Usually buried in the sand. If I get the oscar as a baby will this work.


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Bristle nose will probably be gone once it gets bigger. Like how my oscar ate mine.... And that's pretty
Overstocked for a 75

 

[Mcgolg76]

Was your bristlenose full grown? Will an oscar only eat fish it can swallow hole or will it kill some thing and then chew it up ?


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[rockyofhockey]

Was your bristlenose full grown? Will an oscar only eat fish it can swallow hole or will it kill some thing and then chew it up ?


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To be honest he will do both. I had a 5 inch common with my 2 8-10 inch oscar. 1 of them swallowed the pleco and got stuck in his mouth!!!!! The other one ended up helping him getting it out

 

[Fishobsessed7]

Yeah I also think that would be overstocked.


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[Mcgolg76]

What about just the oscar and knife fish


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[rockyofhockey]

What about just the oscar and knife fish


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A brown knife fish would be OK.... But nothing else. Make sure u have a lot of filtration

 

[Mebbid]

A black knife fish would be OK.... But nothing else. Make sure u have a lot of filtration

Black knife fish need 125g+ aquariums

As for the brown knife fish, I highly doubt that he would last with an oscar. They are timid feeders at best and an oscar is the polar opposite. Oscars just wouldn't let one feed properly and I would say the same thing goes with the eel.

 

[Mcgolg76]

This brown knife is not a timid feeder. Trained to eat flakes. Also can be hand fed with a syringe.


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[Mcgolg76]

Found somebody who wants the eel if i go this route. Would only do the brown knife and oscar. Know will have enough room. Concern is will the oscar eat it. Def way to big to fit in a full grime oscars mouth


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[Mcgolg76]

Filtration is an aquaclear 110 and an eheim 2215.


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[Mcgolg76]

Ok been rehoming and moving fish between tanks. Decided to keep the African knife fish. Also going to get a catfish. Perhaps an feather fin syndo. Would this be overstocked? Any other catfish that woould work


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