oscars and community....

[madroosta]

Hi Guys, do you think that with the correct type of decorating and use of objects that i could create a tank for both Oscars and my other community fish (still housed in a smaller tank). There are fish that they may go for but i'm thinking if i can create some sort of decorative divider that the smaller fish can go to or stay in away from the oscars. Its not my giant plecs i'm worried about eating the little fellas its the Oscars that bother me but i truly dont want to get rid of them!!

 

[Subliminal]

Plecos are vegans. They'll eat the occasional cichlid balls or whatever, but mainly stay away from fish: IE, they're peaceful.

Oscars will only eat what fits in their mouth. If the fish are too big for their mouth, oscars are generally friendly.

I had a buddy who had a 100+ gallon tank, and always fed his oscars goldfish. Well, they let one live one day (ate many more after that, but just let the one live) and it got to be as big as the oscars.

We'll be friends forever, Tad...right?

 

[Shocker6966]

Plecos aren't vegans. They'll eat anything with nutritional content, they're not fussy. As far as your oscars go, you'll have to find out the hard way. Usually they get along fine with other fish when kept in pairs, but that's always an individual by individual thing.

 

[madroosta]

well i have 3 balas, 2 plecs, 2 angels, 2 dwarf and 1 kissing gourami, 3 corys, 1 pakistani loach, 2 clown loach, 1 upside down cat, 1 sucking loach, 5 zebra danios, 5 harlequins, 1 silver danio and i think thats it oh and some sort of truly nocturnal black and white striped catfish/plec..........gonna be a big prob!

 

[tarheels910]

With a divider it would be possible. But why in the world do you want to do that? Why not just keep them in the tanks you have now.

 

[madroosta]

With a divider it would be possible. But why in the world do you want to do that? Why not just keep them in the tanks you have now.

because i bought the tank to rehouse the community as they were exceeding their old tank.......the oscars came with the new tank but did not know that untill it arrived so i'm left in a quandry, thats why i would consider doing it.