75 gallon stocking ideas needed

i dont know....im stuck. i dont think i want to get rid of my oscar....i just feel bad for him/her cus im so picky about the fish that id constently worry that someone dumb got him lol. idk :( might as well leave everything as is i guess....oh by the way, hes 9 1/2 inchs exactly....ive never taken it outta the water to measure it b4 but today i did and wow...i was off 3 inchs haha
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i say keep your oscar. they are so personable and cute, who cares if they like to rearrange the tank to their liking? :)

my O is constantly doing stuff in his tank that ticks me off, but it's all part of his charm! i've made the tank bare bottom so that he can't push substrate into piles or make sand blow all over the place (and into the filters!). his decor is a plastic resin 'wood' piece from petsmart with a plastic plant entwined in it. (see my avatar - the lower piece of 'wood' on the right has been removed, so just the tall one remains, and the sand is gone now). my O also constantly knocks the rena filter intake into the water, but i don't mind, it entertains him, and the top fixed part of the intake is always underwater so i never worry about the canister running dry.

i give my O a floating orange plastic ball to play with and chase now and then, and he LOVES to hunt the laser pointer that i shine into his tank sometimes. he will let me touch him lightly on the side, almost like a petting, and i swear he hears me from across the room when i tell him to knock off whatever he's doing bad and behave himself!

gee, can you tell i'm a devoted oscar momma? lol!
 
yeah, very true...if i had the time,$ and space id say time for anothr tank haha ;) well guess ill keep my oscar lol
 
hes a weirdo lol. he gets very upset at the camera when i try to take pics of him. theres some videos of youtube of himtoo under the name " KingCharlieCKCS " (my dogs name haha) but here was my fish a lear and a half ago...
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they grow so darn quick, eh? i got my Gus at about 3 inches in spring of '09. he's pushing 11 inches now, including his tail fin (i'm one of those weirdos that measures with TL, not SL).
 
yeah...well i figure i got the perfect set up for him, and ive always wanted a BIG fish....and hes alone, in a 75 with a fluval 405 filter..so hes happy. :)
 
I dont know where you live but in Atlanta there are some stellar deals on used aquariums now...Try craigslist
 
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