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Astronotus ocellatus, better known as Oscar, is an eating machine. Because Oscar is so addicted to eating, you can train him to do tricks. Do not teach him to jump out of the water for food. He already knows how to jump out of the water. Your oscar may jump out and expire while you’re not there. Keep him securely covered. Reach for Your Salt Shaker. Unfortunately, lots of info on the web is from old books or someone’s experience with one oscar. There’s nothing wrong with anecdotal reports, they’re just limited in their scope. Not every oscar is the same as every other oscar. Similar, but not the same.
Small Oscars. Just a note of caution, those “small oscars” you see for sale are not just “smalls.” Treat them as BABY oscars. In other words, give them BABY foods. Rather then starting them on hard pellets, feed them frozen brine shrimp or other foods preferred by young fishes. Just remember that oscars up to two inches are really babies.
Original Oscars. Normal oscars, which you rarely see these days, start life as cute little black and white fry (looking a lot like baby Jack Dempseys) which quickly grow into dark, bass-resembling predators. Their velvety black and olive bodies are sprinkled with orange “stars” (Astro) on their back (notus). They sport the characteristic “eye” on their tails (ocellatus).
Brittany Popa, Norwalk, OH, January 13, 2011
Dear aqualand, I am emailing you to inform you that your oscar section on your website should be fixed. That information is wrong and i feel that your causing oscars to be mistreated like many of them are today. On your site, you claim one oscar can live in a 30 gallon tank, 2 can live in a 55 gallon tank, and that 4 can live it a 75 gallon. This info is VERY wrong. One oscar can live in a 55 gallon but a 75 is way more recomended. I know someone who has a 14.5 inch oscar...can you see 4 of those living comfortably in a 75? no, you cant. Im a member of the forum www.Oscarfishlover.com. and there are alot of very smart oscar owners on this site and they would be the first people id send a newbie in oscars to....but im just saying that maybe you should go to the site and check it out...maybe you'll learn something new. A: You don't need a huge tank for your oscars IF you make regular water changes and IF you don't overfeed. I'll add your input to one of my oscar pages. Thanks. LA
Brittany Poppa, Norwalk, OH, January 14, 2011
Thanks but one more thing, how can you say you don't need a huge tank for this huge fish? I think a 75 should be minimum for one Oscar because even a 55 is to small. Explain to me how a 14 inch fish can turn around in a tank that's 12 inches on the sides? I just think that people should know how huge these fish can get. And at the growing rate of 1 to 1 1/2 inches a month, within a year these things get at least 11 inches. So idk I don't want to offend you, but I've seen SO many people joining the forum and having a way too small tank and way too many oscars and then we tell them what's wrong and why their fish are sulking and they get pissed and leave the forum because that's not what PetsMart told them. Just yesterday a guy had 2 oscars in a 20 gallon and left the forum because we told him that's was WAY too tiny :/ A: I don't remember recommending putting a 14-inch fish in a 10 gallon tank. However, if they slanted into the diagonal they could turn around without breaking a sweat. An oscar kept in a 30 or even a 20 does not have his feelings hurt enough to sulk. He doesn't know any better. As I said earlier, "the bigger the better." The theoretically happiest oscars I ever saw were in Florida in a 2-foot deep concrete pond about 40 feet across. I'm sorry your forum has dropouts. Sometimes you can't make everyone happy by telling them what to do. LA Go to Oscars Chapter 2 More info and pictures for oscar fanatics:
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