Was at the lfs today the have a albino with red eyes but has a orange tint to the body. its only 1.5 inch. big ben is pushing 4 inch.should i take a chance?

1" and a 4" should be ok there will be a dominance thing but as long as you keep them grubbed up it shouldnt be a prob......pink eyes = hard to find!!

thats what i thought,guess im headed back to town

yer go for it, albino oacars was the only kind i couldnt find when i was looking in the pet stores yesterday.

I went back to the lfs and got the albino oscar.and while i was there i spotted a albino african cichlid.will get better pic when the tank coms down

Baby albino didnt make it.someone to him/her out everthing seemed fine swimming around having fun. I looked away looked back was belly up.. bummed out this one had alot of personality..

melcamino wrote:

what do you mean, taken by the big one?

one of the other fish killed him.

is it the new comer?

if that is so, that is the real danger of introducing
new comer which is smaller. teritorial supremacy sometimes
cause havoc... new comer being treated as intruder, and
will be driven away.

sorry to hear about your albino. sometimes this happens when introducing new fish to an existing tank. if you do try again i would suggest growing the new one out a bit before introducing it to the larger fish.

The funny thing is the big oscar was protecting the little oscar. the big oscar would rap its body around the little one so the cichlids would leave it alone. i will try again after i get the bigger tank.i am looking for a 100 gal to move the oscar into..