Medium Oscars enjoy worms,
mealworms, waxworms,
plankton, and medium pellets. And, of course, feeder
goldfish and rosy reds.
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Albino tiger oscar. Feed them foods that bring out their reds.
Almost an "eye" on his tail.
Bigger Oscars go for krill, silversides, grasshoppers, night
crawlers, larger feeder goldfish and large pellets.
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Baby oscars of various colors 1.5 to 2 inches long.
Baby Oscar Colors. You
buy your bright red baby oscars and take them home.
Most soon lose that vibrant red you selected them for.
Why? They were juiced in
Singapore (or Indonesia, Bangkok, etc) – probably with testosterone or something similar – to bring out
their adult coloration. (We can’t
use testosterone in our U.S. water, because it makes our arms too hairy --
especially during a full moon.) In your
tank, they gradually revert to their true juvenile colors.
This is just a phase. They
will regain their bright colors again at maturity – about a year later.
No matter how many color foods you feed them, the young ones won’t look
as colorful as the adults. Oddly
enough, many color foods will quickly bring out their blacks and make your oscar
darker faster.
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Albino tiger oscar adult. Definite "eye" here.
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Medium albino tiger oscars
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Albino super red oscar -- very striking fish
The Albinos.
In one of the rearing pools, someone spotted a baby oscar with no black
color (an albino). Naturally, they
snagged it out, carefully raised it, and bred it to establish the line.
We now have at least six strains of albinos:
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White
albinos
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Yellow
albinos
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Grey
albinos
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Tiger
albinos
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Red albinos
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Super red albinos
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and the snow
oscars below
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Plus all these colors with a
veil tail. Within these strains you can
find a great deal of variation. The
variations came about through crossing albinos back to the other colored
varieties. You’ll never see as many
colors as in the guppies, however, you can now find several different oscar
strains available.
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Veil tail about half-grown so not showing his adult coloration. Kinda
plain.
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Oscars enjoy beating on each other even at the 1.5-inch size.
Veil Tails. Occasionally,
you find long-tailed oscars on the market. Good
veil-tail oscars look best when housed separately.
They tear up each others’ tails when you keep them together.
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1.5-inch dead dyed blueberry oscar.
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Plenty of live blueberries.
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Several live blueberries not looking real blue.
Blueberry/Raspberry Oscars. You
can also find blueberry and raspberry oscars upon occasion.
Both these varieties are actually albino oscars colored with dye.
The dye completely disappears within three months.
You then have a regular albino oscar. (We wish we had invented the
process and patented it. We’d open little shops around the country that
would re-dye painted fish. For a nice price, of course.)
Go
to Oscars Chapter 4
More
info and pictures for oscar fanatics:
Oscars 1
Oscars 2
Oscars 3
Oscars 4
Oscars 5
More Oscar
More Oscar II
More
Oscars III
More Oscars 2007
More Oscars 2007.5
More Oscar 2008
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