Pigment problems?

[Tank9498]

I recently purchased an Oscar from my live fish store. He's a pretty good size at around 4". He is a normal tiger Oscar but he is lighter color than most oscars and I just want to know if he has a pigment issue. I'll post a pic in a bit.

 

[Andrew McFadden]

Feed a mixture of different high quality foods

 

[Tank9498]

I feed hikari color enhancing and dried shrimp.

 

[HUKIT]

Coloration change has nothing to do with diet but rather the fishes mood, oscars will run like a kaleidoscope based on their current temperment. Plus what a Oscar looks like now will have no resemblance to their final coloration as adults. This color morph can go from pale to black in seconds depending on his/her current feelings, this is one of the reasons they're referred to as wet pets since they actually show feelings and personality. Feed him/her a quality diet and keep the water parameters clean with a nitrate concentration below 20ppm and you'll have that fish for 10+ years, unforturnely a good portion of oscars sold today did from fatty liver disease and head and lateral line errosion(HLLE).

 

[Tank9498]

My water parameters are perfect and he shows no sign of illness. He always looks like this though so I don't think it's a mood thing.

 

[Juicebox]

My tiger oscar was white and black this morning and was acting very aggressive towards my sailfin Molly. I ended up getting the Molly out of the tank and when I came into my room an hour later my oscar was back to his normal color.... Thoughts??