Oscars, Ol' Dirty Oscar Fish, Species Sunday
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Oscars are the black lab dogs of freshwater fish - But do Oscars belong in a planted aquarium?
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OSCARS BABY.
The Happy, Giant dogs of the Aquarium World. WHO Hasn’t Owned an Oscar?
Astronotus Ocellatus. Named after Louis Agassiz who found them in 1831 (How dope is that by the way that Oscars have been know about for almost 200 years?!!?!?
They come from slow moving waters of Peru, Brazil, Columbia and French Guina
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OSCARS baby. Why am I talking about Oscars? Cause the Little 12 year old kid in me sometimes SCREAMS at me to get some.
My boy Jolley inherited some back in the day and yes- it was fun to watch them eat goldfish- Though I am a firm believer that Feeder goldfish are actually an awful source of any nutrition and probably disease ridden.
I get the draw of them. They are like dogs looking at you in the aquarium- they come right up and essentially beg to be fed. As we all know that little 2 inch Oscar will be close to a foot long in less than at year. The fun and also bad part of this is that they are fun to feed, so you plop food in, they smash it and then you feed them more.
In college my boys had a dark one name the Grouch and another white one called “the great white hype” Or just hype for short. I can’t tell you how many times 20 somethings take BR’s feed these fish.
Inevitably they always get too big for their owners to keep and they return the fish to the store where they got it. So now the Pet store has a fish they can’t sell. (Note: why did they sell them in the first place.)
Bottom line for me. I don’t recommend even sniffing Oscars unless you understand that they are gonna trash basically anything they can move or attempt to move in your aquarium- Rocks, plants driftwood- whatever.
I’ve always thought at pretty sparsely decorated Oscar tank with these poop machines feeding an aquaponics system would be so legit.
I wouldn’t keep them in anything less than a 75 as they will get large all that said. They have been in the hobby so long that there are a number of cool varieties of them.
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