Oscarfish

[miley_take]

How many of you herpers out there also keep chiclids? particularly Oscars? I have one, her name is oscar...she's nearly 5!

 

[imalizard]

I dont have one but i really like the black and orange ones. I will be getting some one day. Nice name ;D

 

[DanTheMan]

How did you choose his name? Its a bit random...

 

[Hooglabah]

i had three last year but i sold em they are heaps cool lots of character but personally i prefer dwarf cichlids or lake tangyika species malawi are to mono color for my taste

 

[miley_take]

sorry didn't realise how bad that photo was

and I got her when I was 10 so I thought that name was soooo original lol

 

[missllama]

a few people on here do that i know of
i have but they died really really quick one the day i brought it home the other 4 in a matter of a wk

im not good with fish but i did everything right

put me off buying them ever again

but i do love oscars especially because they grow so big! i love there colours aswel absolutely stunning

 

[miley_take]

mine's a cheeky little thing...gave us a scare couple a yrs ago by pretending to die...phone calls to a vet, pet shop owner and then a marine biologist later we find it's a learnt behaviour and she does it to get attention...so if she plays dead we put her in 'time out' no one believes me unless they see her do it or have oscars themselves....loves a pat every now and then and plays tag with me when I clean her tank out lol...óscars have loads of personality and are gourgeous animals to keep =D and my baby's still gowing

 

[Tsubakai]

They are such big sooks. The smallest change and they play dead for all the world. I have one. I'm moving him into a different tank this week so will get some pics after that.

Yours has so much red on her - I usually prefer the blacks over the albinos but I really like yours.

 

[miley_take]

yeah I know...she's even brighter in person....she's beautiful my dad was looking at a tiger (the red ones) but he now has a murray cod lol he's a lot easier because he prefers cold to heat

I suggest reading about them before getting them!! as i was caught, we bought the fish, i did research and found they grow big!! and they can be very pick about water etc but an awesome fish to keep....definately no gold fish and feeding time is awesome

 

[coatesy]

We just got 2 a black & Orange & a white & orange. They are only babies but I love watching them eat! They are such pigs - They fight over their food.

 

[Tsubakai]

What have you tried feeding yours on?

I've used pellets, fish, prawns, redclaw, woodies, crickets, fuzzy mice. He doesn't like the frozen blocks of fish food but loves insects and redclaw lobsters. He even eats banana sometimes by accident (He shares a tank with a giant gourami at the moment and he gets fruit and veges)

 

[miley_take]

Mine gets a steady diet of pellets, but dad goes netting and always keeps "oscar size" prawns for her, and she LOVES insects, but I have to buy them because she got really sick off a garden 'hopper my sis gave her so I'm really careful now...mine will basically eat anything dangled in front of her....lol so never any feeding problems....

we had a yabbie in there with her when she was a baby, and he'd bash her up...well they grew together and she out grew the yabby and got her revenge on casper (yabby) woke up and here she is sucking on his tail :lol:

 

[callith]

i love the unique name, nice fish as well