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Posted	OSCARS
25-07-2006 07:47 by thomas	CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE AMOUNT OF TANK SPACE I WOULD NEED FOR THREE OSCARS AND A FEW TANKMATES LIKE UARUS OR SEVERUMS AND COULD A FEW PICTUS CATS BE PUT IN WITH THEM, I HAVE TRIED MANY BOOKS BUT THEY ALL SEEM TO CONTRADICT EACH OTHER.THANK YOU.
25-07-2006 08:36 by Malawimad	Alot......... i'd say min 6x2x2, Mayeb even more considering everything else u want to put in, they all grow pretty big!!!
25-07-2006 08:49 by Danny Boy	yep a 6x2x2 very minimum.
25-07-2006 09:12 by Alan	I would concur with the above the uarus are a no no with Oscars and far to expensive to risk with them. Also the pictus cats I'm assuming you mean pimelodus pictus when the Oscars get to around 8" plus would probably eat the pictus cats. If you want cichlids in a community tank Oscars aren't ideal the severums however would pose no risk to the pictus cats. Tank mates for Oscars would be anything of equal size and/or considerably more speed and potentially more robust. Silver dollars Tinfoils Distichodus sexfaciatus or lussoso I kept the following succesfully but would not recommend it unless you have an absolutely massive tank my tank was grossly over crowded. 2 Oscars both about 9" 2 Severums both about 7" 1 Distichodus lussoso 16" 3 tinfoils all 7" 4 Silver dollars 5" (breeding continually) 3 polypterids (delhezi ornatipinnis and senegalus) Syno decorus Syno angelicus Syno congicus Hemisynodontis membranaceus All this was in a 55 gallon tank needless to say they were rehomed. I also had a Oreochromis mozambique and a Green Terror these 2 didn't sit to well in the set up the green terror used to get beaten up and so did the mozambique tilapia. I would only attempt all this again in an 8x2x2 full of bog wood.
25-07-2006 09:16 by Alan	Before anyone get on my back about this set up I was a kid and kids do stupid things. I also kept the water quality very good with 2 50% water changes a week. The filtration was also rated at about 5 times the tank volume and I never had a disease out break in this set up. There was also a large air pump to increase the surface area considerably and drive off CO2. The set up actually looked pretty good given the chance I wouldn't mind doing a tank like this again but as I said the tank would have to be much larger.
25-07-2006 13:48 by keith t	I once read from an experianced oscar keeper that you should only keep one oscar and that if you intended to keep more it should be no less than five oscars in the tank, but you would need a very large tank to do this. I used to keep silver sharks with my oscar no probs and parrot fish. I know im swearing to some hobbyists mentioning parrot fish but they do look cool
25-07-2006 14:42 by Danny Boy	i have a successful tank with 3 oscars 2 uarus and 3 severums. all fish show zero aggression and ive had that tank running for 2 years.
25-07-2006 14:52 by keith t	I bought 2 oscars together and they were fine for 6months or so, then one day the largest of the 2 started attacking the other one and i had to put it in another tank. Some people get away with it. If you go into a retailer where there are oscars for sale u will find them mostly in seperated tanks unless they r young
25-07-2006 14:58 by Bruce	Don't buy 3, buy pairs or 4, because i had 3 oscars and after about 3 months of living together the smallest one was killed by the other two when they paired off. here is an old picture of the 3 of them. (i apologise about the quality of pic)
25-07-2006 15:00 by keith t	is the albino the one that died, god bless his soul
25-07-2006 16:07 by kevin george	i have 3oscars in with my red devils and tilipia butterkofferi with no probs
25-07-2006 18:05 by keith t	I think my oscar BETTY as my misses called her had an attitude problem it even attacked my hand but my smaller one you could stroke. I used to jump like *** if betty caught me of guard and bit me *** hand or arm.
25-07-2006 18:08 by thomas	danny boy how big was the tank you had for yours.
25-07-2006 19:15 by Danny Boy	they are in a 6x2x2 thats connected to another 6x2x2
25-07-2006 20:05 by thomas	danny boy that sounds quality how do you that then,sorry to keep on but i am really interested,is it difficult?
25-07-2006 20:19 by Danny Boy	well when i say connected one tank is above the other and i pump the water to the top tank and a whole in the side of the top tank lets it trickle back to the bottom. but check this out.... http://www.bio-elite.com/waterbridge.htm bit of an old chesnut but always intresting to new fish keepers
26-07-2006 07:37 by thomas	DANNY BOY I AM GOING ON A BIT BUT YOUR TANK SOUND LIKE THE SORT OF THING I AM INTERESTED IN,COULD YOU TELL ME HOW MUCH YOU PAID FOR YOUR URAUS AND DO YOU HAVE ANY BOTTOM FEEDERS.
08-09-2006 12:49 by Bruce	It was the smallest black one.
08-09-2006 12:51 by Bruce	It was the smallest black one.
08-09-2006 19:43 by heros hero	What size tank were they in that such small oscars killed one of their tank mates?

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