Hi i am new and just got two beautiful red and albino oscars and they are doin well but there is one problem. They stay at the bottem of the tank sort of side ways when the light is on or a dark coner. My dad had 7 oscars for 10 years andhe said everything is fine andthey just need to get use to the tank. But i just want to make sure everything is okay and if countinues what to do?please help, thank you.

PS:Today i gave my oscar a pellet and it was when the light was on. IT came out of the coner to eat it but when it was gonna strike it was staring at the light and swam away and kept do this about seven times until the food went to the coner.

if you just got your oscars then you should give them a little time to settle in to their new home. usually a day or two is enough but it can last longer. if after some time they still shy away form the light try to gradually get them used to the idea by only putting the light on for short periods of time. eventually you should be able to have your lights on for longer time.



btw welcome to the site

thank you very much, i guess my dad was right:laugh:

yeah os could be very shy when added to a new tank, i got my o's as babies and it was like they didnt know how to swim. just make sure your water conditions are alright, especially if its a new tank.

As necromancer said, if they are new to this tank this is usual behavior. Nothing wrong if they take more than two days to feel at home. If this persist past some time, say 10 days, then something else might be acting as an aversive stimulus for them.

Oscars' natural habitat is dim in sunlight due to dense major vegetation above the body of water they thrive in.

I use bronze-tainted glass instead of clear standard glass in my canopies. Plants don't get all the light spectrum they might like but still this little change makes them feel really comfortable all around the tank.

My Oscars were introduced simultaneously with one Green Severum, a few days later I brought a Gold Severum. They were all juveniles, the two Tiger Oscars were 6 and 4.5" while both Severum were around 5. I can tell you that the Gold Severum ruled that tank for a month or so. Now, with them at 6 to 7" and the Oscars' at 12 and 11" it's a completely different story.

My Oscars wouldn't even eat in my presence for a while, now they both feed from my hand. We do interact a lot.

Pepe
Santo Domingo