Oscar with silver dollars?

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atariguy

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I have an 80 gallon tank with 5 full-grown silver dollars. It used to also have a midas, but it recently died (it was about 12 years old). I'm thinking of getting a baby oscar to replace the midas.

I've read several articles where people have kept this combination with no problems, but also found where someone said their oscar ate their silver dollars. Obviously there won't even be a possibility of a problem until it gets bigger than the silver dollars, but I'm wondering what the chances are that I'll end up regretting keeping them together?
 
Huh? That person must have added the silver dollars while the oscar was huge... and the dollars were small. Meh. Yeah, it'd work.
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Thanks for the replies. I managed to get a baby tiger oscar, after convincing the employee that my tank is big enough and that it should get along with its tankmates. Now if it would only eat...
 
Most of the O keepers I've read of or chatted with, do the O and silver dollar thing with 6ft tanks. I'm assuming your 80g is a 4ft tank? That's not a lot of room for an O and multiple others. I push the limit with an O and a severum in my standard 75g.

SDs are ideal oscar tank mates though. Not a huge bio load and they make a nice clean-up crew when the O blows food out his gills like they often do.
 
I agree, that's a great species mix since the O' can grow up with them and learn they're "not food" but you'll want to upgrade to a larger footprint tank in the near future.
 
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