Pacu and oscar odd combination?

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Pacu and oscar odd behavior...

I have a small oscar and pacu together in a 75g. The oscar is about 4.5" long, and so is the pacu. I know eventually i have to get rid of the pacu and i will. They get along great, it's almost like they play together like a puppy would play with it's mother... if you know what i mean... the pacu will swim around the oscar and bump into it and then the oscar will do the same back but harder. They also wim past eachother really fast. It may sound like they are maybe fighting but that's definately not what it looks like, there's no biting involved at all. It's unlike any fish behavior i've seen before. Is this unusual at all? has anyone else seen this happen before? Ill be sure to post pics soon.
 
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Pacus get along fine with almost all large cichlids. In addition, they are virtually bullet-proof and so are great target fish for mixing things up in a large community tank.

I have four pacus in a 400g tank with two pairs of synspila, a citrinellum, and a few other fish. Their schooling activity and constant movement keeps the cichilds from getting too upset with each other.

But the reason why I have four pacus is that they were all orphans, abandoned at fish stores by previous owners. When you say you are going to "get rid" of yours you appear to believe that there is an aftermarket market for these fish, which I can assure you there is not. Most fish stores won't even take them, because they can't be sold, and all public aquaria long ago accepted their limit.

I would suggest you consider getting a 125g short term, and then a 240g long term, (or build an indoor pond) and keep yours. In the 125g it will be fine with the oscar for a long time; in the 240g it will be fine forever. Also, in that larger tank you could add a few more large fish, and have a really remarkable specimen tank.
 
WIPPIT GUUD -> yes i have heard of paucs being eaten, in fact they are a delacasy in mexico and southeran america. they were once bred jsut as food bkuz of their large size, often up to 3 feet and 50 lbs! iw as just gonna eat mine until i posted a thread on her about ewating fish that you raised in your tanks and it was said it ws not a good idea since all the medications and chemicals that are piut into the tanks every week. and those may be good for the fish but not humans. so i decided against it.

HARRY TOLEN -> yea all tanks i have seem pacus in there are lots of varying cichlids. like MOJO has an indoor pond with black pacu, red pacu and cichloids like red devils, jaguars, oscars, convicts, festae, rainbow, firemouth, chocolate, dovii, salvini and some other fish like red tailed cats, gouarmis, and tinmfoil barbs. but u prob already know that. http://www.aquamojo.com/pond.html

T_H_E_S_A_C_K -> you are gonna have such a hard time finding a home for your pacu, ive been trying for like 4 months to get rid of my pacus but i will NEVER put them into a lake as many people do! ive even tried to pay the LFS to take tham and they still wont!! it sux.
 
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Yep, they're good eating...but I'd be worried about any medicines that might have been in the tank at some point...if they haven't been medicated, the Pacus are good food!
 
Also their muscle tone is like mush, as they have no room for exercise.
 
Mushy muscles... Pacu Chowder? :)

What if you stuck it in a non-medicated pond fora couple of weeks to flush it out? (does that sound as dumb as I fear it does?)
 
A lot of meds stay in the tissue in low levels for good...they might not flush out after a few weeks...
 
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