you'll run into big problems trying to keep that many oscars in that small of a space.
A 75g is only big enough for one oscar.
Which has more personality?
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A 75g is only big enough for one oscar.
I sure hoping you aren't serious! Please tell me you're joking! Just like "Krytan" above, 75 is good for only 1 (one) Oscar. Not more. Absolute minimum:75 for 1 Oscar, 100 for 2
4 Oscars when full grown equals approx.68" in a 48" tank! Some will tell you a 55 is enough. But that is only 13 deep and the fish can be 15-17" which means it can't turn around. A 75 is barely 3X the length of a 15" Oscar and 2 would cut it to 1.5X it's length which means no room to swim and 4 puts you in the negative
Yes, I will put four or five oscars in a 75g.
I am planning on putting four or five oscars in a 75g.
What I am not telling you is for how long.
I knew I would get such responses, so I thought I would raise the blood pressure of a few people. :rofl: I do have five aquariums....120g salt, 120g oscar, 75g soon to be oscar, 29g soon to be 2 severum, and a 10g honey gouramis. And yes, I have been doing this for over 30 years. But I figured one sure way to get some responses is to say how many oscars I would put in a tank. Sorry....my weird humor got the best of me.
Truth is...I am eventually going to weed it down to one oscar and yes, I will add a couple of smaller cichlids depending. I am thinking a Jewel cichlid and a firemouth.
I have a firemouth that is in the 29g with (gasp) a small less than 2" oscar. He is headed for a life with an oscar.
Currently, I have a 120g with a two year old 11" oscar, 2 SDs, a 2 1/2" JD, pleco, and a jewel cichlid. I dropped the small JD and Jewel in yesterday morning. (I had run an experiment with two small firemouths, and the oscar pretty much ignored them, so I think since he has never been fed feedeer fish, he accepts smaller fish easier). If they get along, this will stay as is. The pleco may not stay.
BTW, when I started the oscar tank two years ago, I had six 1 1/2" oscars in that 120g. I thought, "No way will an oscar fill that tank." I was wrong. I have a hard time believing how someone can put an oscar in a 55g.
Originally, I was going to keep some JDs in the 75g, but I really like oscars. So I wanted some other opinions as I have not kept JDs before....hence the question of this post. Thanks for the help.
I am planning on putting four or five oscars in a 75g.
What I am not telling you is for how long.
I knew I would get such responses, so I thought I would raise the blood pressure of a few people. :rofl: I do have five aquariums....120g salt, 120g oscar, 75g soon to be oscar, 29g soon to be 2 severum, and a 10g honey gouramis. And yes, I have been doing this for over 30 years. But I figured one sure way to get some responses is to say how many oscars I would put in a tank. Sorry....my weird humor got the best of me.
Truth is...I am eventually going to weed it down to one oscar and yes, I will add a couple of smaller cichlids depending. I am thinking a Jewel cichlid and a firemouth.
I have a firemouth that is in the 29g with (gasp) a small less than 2" oscar. He is headed for a life with an oscar.
Currently, I have a 120g with a two year old 11" oscar, 2 SDs, a 2 1/2" JD, pleco, and a jewel cichlid. I dropped the small JD and Jewel in yesterday morning. (I had run an experiment with two small firemouths, and the oscar pretty much ignored them, so I think since he has never been fed feedeer fish, he accepts smaller fish easier). If they get along, this will stay as is. The pleco may not stay.
BTW, when I started the oscar tank two years ago, I had six 1 1/2" oscars in that 120g. I thought, "No way will an oscar fill that tank." I was wrong. I have a hard time believing how someone can put an oscar in a 55g.
Originally, I was going to keep some JDs in the 75g, but I really like oscars. So I wanted some other opinions as I have not kept JDs before....hence the question of this post. Thanks for the help.
Oscars have great personality,much more than a JD But my JD is much more aggressive..I hope your Oscars are small,you will be amazed how fast they grow. You may be able to keep 2 Oscars in a 75 with alot of filtration and water changes..Oscars are a really dirty eaters and produce much waste.
