Tiger Oscar Fish Care - Food, Facts, & Behavior
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Tiger Oscar Fish Care - Food, Facts, & Behavior. Oscar fish aquarium setup is very easy, These large Hikari sticks work great for Oscar Fish. These are larger in size than regular pellets.
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One of the most popular aquarium fish is the
cichlid fish. I go through some general care on habitat and tank parameters. Tankmates and roommates for the oscar is touchy subject at times for fish hobbyists.It's actually pretty common to see these fish bro larger than 10 inches long and I've heard a lot of the comments say that they've seen them up to 14 inches along in size. That's a pretty big fish and if you think about it a lot of our aquarium's are literally way too small even if you have a 75 gallon aquarium with the 10 inch fish or larger it's still a pretty small habitat for fish that size.
http://guppy-fish.com/oscar/
I think the second reason why these fish are so popular is how much personality they hold. If you get on YouTube and start doing some searching for some videos of cool tricks and things or people are doing with these fashionable blow your mind away. There's videos out there were people are actually teaching their fish to do tricks with their fingers and these fish are pretty big and they do have a mind of their own and their known to show a lot of personality.
Oscar fish food & treats
https://youtu.be/LBIaIcgnWZw
Most people think that these fish only eat meat and that would make him a carnivore but they are actually omnivores. Another beginner mistake is to feed these fish goldfish and other dirty fish that you get from your pet stores that are sold as food to feed other carnivores food appetites.
To feed the oscar fish, is actually recommended that most of their diet be consisted of insects when in an aquarium because that is the safest route for them to get a lot of protein at a safe measure without any disease or sickness involved. TV small goldfish another fish that are used to feed bigger fish like this are full of disease because they are Brad in terrible parameters and the water quality and Sacher just terrible and it will make your fish sick because he is actually eating the fish that is already sick.
Oscar Fish Fighting and Agression
https://youtu.be/g8-UPY454x4
Your water should be kept on the warmer side of tropical temperatures between 77 and 81°F. This is a little higher if the temperature then some tropical fish that could get away with a little bit lower temperatures but the Oscar fish needs at the higher range of 80° in around that.
If you're looking for a little guidance on finding in aquarium heater you can go do your pet store and find them but they're going to be cheaper if you buy them online. When figuring out what size of the heater you need for your fish aquarium you should figure on meeting 5 W of energy to heat every single gallon in your aquarium. Four instance if you had a 20 gallon aquarium and if you times that by 5 W that is a 100 W heater is what you would need to heat the water in the 20 gallon size aquarium.
When trying to decorate your aquarium you have to be careful because the Oscar fish is known to destroy a lot of decorations because they see them as a toy and not as a decoration. When they are in a natural habitat they have the ability to constantly be moving around and doing new things but when they're stuck inside a fish aquarium they get bored and whatever is around him becomes a victim of their boredom. This means that all fake plants and most likely any real plans are all going to get wrecked and they're going to make a complete mess of your setup.
You will find that most people that have a large Oscar fish aquarium are going to just keep it very plain and simple or else have very heavy stones that are silicone to the glass or also a great one to use is driftwood and different types of wood that they are unable to move because they're too heavy. You will also do well with clay pots because some things they can't be racked but they can just be moved around and almost used as a toy to play with.
You're going to most likely see your Oscar fish swimming around at the bottom and middle regions of your fish aquarium. This is just the style of fish they are and they're a midsection swimmer even though you will see them go anywhere at any time and especially near the surface when feeding time occurs.