Tankmates for Juvenile Oscar

Alec2cool

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I currently have a 2 inch oscar in a well established 10g tank. He seems very lonely and id like to get him a tankmate. I know he is tempermental to fish sometimes cuz i had danios in there and he kept trying to join in on there game of "tag" or maybe he just wanted to eat them, im not sure.

any suggestions for tankmates he can grow together with? i will be getting him a larger tank down the road.
 
i hope you will be getting it a much larger tank, and soon. Oscars are south america cichlids, so i would look there first. be carefull though, oscars arent the toughest of the s. americans. Im sure sme others are more knowedgable then I on this too.
 
You shouldn't get any tankmates, as Oscars are messy fish and he will outgrow the 10g pretty rapidly, I'd not advise getting him tankmates until you get him into his permanent home, and even then you'd need a tank about 90g+ to be able to keep another fish large enough to not become food.
 
I agree a new tank for him first then you can consider tankmates. Oscars grow quickly and will outgrow that 10 gallon in no time. I know a lot of people keep oscars with larger plecos. They are individuals though so he may not want any tankmates.
 
Yeah, Oscars are large but docile, as long as his tank's large enough to be able to claim his own territory he should be safe with any fish too big to swallow.
 
Dont worry about tankmates, he wont be in the 10 gal long enough to settle anything else in.

I bough my Oscar about a month ago, it's grown from 2.5" to 4" in that time, and it would already be too big for a 10gal.

When you get it into a bigger tank, look for bigger tankmates. Putting a 2" Oscar and most other 2" fish in a tank together will usually end badly as the Oscar grows faster and tries to eat it's "buddy".

My 4" Oscar is in with a 12" sailfin pleco, so no worries there, even when the Oscar is fully grown.

Dont mess around with it in the 10gal, you will stunt it's growth quickly at a stage when it should be making it's fastest growth.

Mine would eat danio sized fish now, and is 4 to 6 weeks older than yours!!!

Ian
 
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