Oscars
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66 gallons really isn't big enough for one full grown oscar, let alone two. Every forum I go to, the consensus is always that one oscar requires 75 gallons. Two oscars should be given something more like 125 gallons when full grown.
Yikes..... I hope you are already saving for the aquarium upgrade. You are going to need it real soon if you put that oscar in the 29 gallon. :shake:
I did put it in my 29. But hes only an inch long and ive already got a 50 gallon tank for when he gets bigger, and i dont have to worry too much about saving for a bigger tank. See im only 17, and i live with my parents still. so i can still use my income on things like tanks instead of bills and food. But the time is coming when im gonna have to move out. Its gonna be touhg getting all these aquariums ive got out of my bedroom and into wherever i go.
Well, considering oscars can easily live over 10 years..........you now have a long term commitment. 
I think that you could get away with a 55gallon cause I have a 55gallon with a Rd,Jd and a bluegill and I have had the bluegill since last summer and he is the smallest in the tank but other than that he doesn't fight with anyone but he doesn't let anyone push him around And redevils are more agressive than a oscar so I think that an oscar would be fine with the bluegill
My little oscar isnt much bigger than the mosquito fish i feed my bluegill. But the bluegill seems to know hes not a fish to be eaten. He leaves him alone. I was afraid he might try to attack him when i turned the light out because thats when he hunts his mosquito fish, but he hasnt even nipped the little baby. So they are doing just fine together.
Since the deed is done, good luck. Just an FYI you may already know this but Bluegills will eat almost anything, and in the wild they prefer insects and worms over minnows. Minnows are fun to feed, but you might mix it up a little and see what else he likes if you haven't already. We always fed them Flake food with everything else in the tank, but in the wild, flies bugs and waxworms seem to draw them from large distances while minnows will often be ignored. And lastly if you are 17 have income and no bills, I'd reccomend something about 300 gallons. When the bills hit it might be a few years before you can consider the idea again. I've been looking at a 300 for around 15 years and it's still not anything more than a dream::sad
During the summer when they are easily found, i give the bluegill live earthworms. He simply loves those. Yea, i know i should get the biggest tank possible now, while i still dont have to worry about bills, ill probably do that too, its not a bad idea.
other native fish
I have a 30 gallon tank with 2 panfish in it. They aren't the common bream or "bluegill" or crappie or shell cracker or stumpknocker or whatever you wish to call them.... but I have two really beuatiful sunfish.. I caught them in a small minnow trap on our Lake... They are about 4 inches long .. I have had them for around 6 or 7 months now.. they Love it... I feed mine normal
dry fish food flakes and some sinking small pellets...
They seem to play all day running up under and behind them big rocks and in the plants of my tank.
When I walk into the room they swim near the top and will actualy let me touch them and nip my fingers..
for a treat I like to feed them Crickets and red wigglers...
the same thing I catch there older brothers with when fishing on the same lake. When these guys get a little bigger I will return them under my dock... however they have virually stopped growing.... when I first got them they probly grew anouther inch and a half they were really small....
I have no heater in the tank and I have the tank in a room with two windows close... Often days I will leave the aquarium light off to simulate there invironment under the dock where they live at my lake... there is enough to naturaly light the tank... I have a plant light in the with over half of it having a blue transparent plastic under the bulb that simulates deeper water... the fish like to hang out on the blue side if there not under and around the plants and huge lava rock.
I think these fish are great... I would like to hear from other people and pictures of others bream and native fish keepers.
I have a 30 gallon tank with 2 panfish in it. They aren't the common bream or "bluegill" or crappie or shell cracker or stumpknocker or whatever you wish to call them.... but I have two really beuatiful sunfish.. I caught them in a small minnow trap on our Lake... They are about 4 inches long .. I have had them for around 6 or 7 months now.. they Love it... I feed mine normal
dry fish food flakes and some sinking small pellets...
They seem to play all day running up under and behind them big rocks and in the plants of my tank.
When I walk into the room they swim near the top and will actualy let me touch them and nip my fingers..
for a treat I like to feed them Crickets and red wigglers...
the same thing I catch there older brothers with when fishing on the same lake. When these guys get a little bigger I will return them under my dock... however they have virually stopped growing.... when I first got them they probly grew anouther inch and a half they were really small....
I have no heater in the tank and I have the tank in a room with two windows close... Often days I will leave the aquarium light off to simulate there invironment under the dock where they live at my lake... there is enough to naturaly light the tank... I have a plant light in the with over half of it having a blue transparent plastic under the bulb that simulates deeper water... the fish like to hang out on the blue side if there not under and around the plants and huge lava rock.
I think these fish are great... I would like to hear from other people and pictures of others bream and native fish keepers.
