Oscar...

[Ptrick125]

This fish will be a friend not a fish, that's how oscars are. As long as you take care of it, it may be your favorite pet of all time.


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[Southern Rebel]

True it is more than a fish.... the price wasn't anything compared to the friendship and joy ill get out of having my new friend

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[livebearerfreak]

I read the PM, when they get to the pet stores they arrive in big trucks, they keep them in cages in the trucks.


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actually, they ship reptiles just like fish... except they dont put them in baggies like fish are. but they are in a box like fish are shipped.. so no, they dont keep them in cages. ( sorry for off topic ) and congrats OP

 

[excuzzzeme]

They arrive at the store as small juvies in baggies like any other fish. I have but yet to see one in a cage! Maybe on Nibiuru they are in cages but on Earth they aren't. The LFS receives them from UPS trucks, don't know what petco does but all I ever saw there was baggies.

Thats a nice Oscar, he looks meaner than the petco kind, if he's wild that means it probably came from a river in south America. How much was it? Be prepared, generally the wild version of a fish get bigger.

Being F0 doesn't mean it will be larger. Size is dictated by it's genes and it environment including food. I have raised some store bought ones to 15" and others to only 12". Markings of being a wild type has nothing to do with personality. Just becase one is meaner really means nothing and there is no way to gauge what kind of personality it will have. Some of them change once it becomes breeding age while others don't.

 

[Southern Rebel]

Thanks all, just got sand in my tank, for substrate and a piece of driftwood, pics to come soon...also what temp does it need to be at for oscars? And the heater I got now is a 150 watt I think..is that okay? Ty (btw the fish isn't arriving until next week wed or thurs...got lfs in town if I need to get bigger heater)

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[excuzzzeme]

I keep all my tanks at 78F which causes them to grow just a slight bit slower but increases life span.

Heater should be used at the rate of 3 watts per gallon for steady room temps and 5 watts per gallon for drafty or fluctuating room temps

For a regular diet I use Ken's Premium Cichlid Floating Pellet 7.5mm and then I get small bits of hot dogs, flies, night crawlers, ants, dwarf shrimp culls and endler/guppy culls etc as a rare treat. I do not feed live foods as a steady diet.

 

[allaboutfish]

is this tank cycled? do you know about the nitrogen cycle?

 

[Southern Rebel]

Yep all about it I've had 4 tanks prior this....I'm using tetra safestart few days before I get the fish...checking water daily..it should cycle in a week or so

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[fshfanatic]

Nice, is there a picture to it? (I want to see what a wild Oscar looks like)


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A wild Oscar looks exactly like a captive born one.

 

[fshfanatic]

I didn't even know you could ship large reptiles like that, that's animal abuse. At least fish can upright themselves in water and keep the right temp.

I would hardly consider a Bearded Dragon a "large Reptile" and most are shipped as babies.

At least fish can upright themselves in water and keep the right temp.

Yea, that Oscar can control the temperature in the shipping box and right himself if tipped. That poor bearded dragon cant control the temps and it if lands on its back it is doomed..

**** dude, are you listening to yourself?