Well I won an online bid for 2 lemon oscars. I have hit so many dead ends trying to get these but it finaly looks like a reality! I am so excited. The fish are $17 a piece and $40 for shipping, not bad for fish no one can seem to get their hands on. The shipping is for Overnight by 12 noon the next day styrafoam container heat pack and DOA guarantee. Sounds pretty good to me. I figure I will pay this place thursday at the latest and friday or saturday with any luck ill have my new fish. I am still going to look I would LOVE to have a breeding pair of lemons. Does anyone know if 2 lemons make lemons? - Or can they have any kind of oscar? Oh well im off to bed, very excited - Jon

i just had a look at the lemon oscar and they are really nice id love to get sum of them but as you said they are very rare.

I believe it depends on how the Oscars had been bred. I think it goes back through the parentage as well. You'll find that fish that have been interbred over a period of time will have various different colour offspring, just like a lot of other animals I suppose. Dinger has a lot of experience in this field and will probably give you a lot more information. I don't think he's bred lemon Oscars though

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Just got confirmation my 2 lemon oscars will arrive tomorrow between 9 am and 1 pm. I am so excited! I will post some photos as soon as they arrive!

Congrats to you. I would love a lemon oscar

Congratulations! on your up and coming new arrivals.
If you can post a picture.
Fish through the mail how interesting. Never thought of it. I guess I found something else I can do. Enjoy!

I got my lemons today! I will post a pic in a day or 2. When I first got them I was furious, not thinking that my fish had just spent close to 24 hours in an amonia/nitrate filled plastic bag with little oxygen an no food I thought I got ripped off because they were not yellow at all. Its been a few hours and they are eating already which from my experience is unusual for new oscars, mine were always pretty timid. They are also getting a yellow tint plus large areas are becoming yellow so I am pretty sure they just lost their color from being stressed out so when its 100% back I will post a photo. I do have a ? about breeding. I know have my pink/orange oscar 2 lemons 2 albinos and a tiger, eventually I would like them all in a 200-300 gallon tank but heres my question. If a lemon/lutino mate what color are the fry same with lutino/albino lemon/tiger the list goes on. I hope with these 6 fish each from a different store some from different states I will have a healthy breeding pair. Oh heres my other question my 3 oscars that I have had for a while are pretty big how can I get my new oscars to grow fast enough so they can all be put together without causing health problems?

The outcome of fish when breeding (i have no experience of breeding oscars) depends on many factors. There is no guarantee that when you breed 2 fish of the same sort that you get that sort as babies. Same goes for a mix of varieties, you can get some babies like one parent, some like the other(if neither colour is dominant) and some in between and some may be nothing like either. I think that when you get 2 fish breeding and all the babies look like the parents they are called a true pair. Its a bit like people and height, 2 medium height people have a kid and sometimes they have a tall(or short) kid, they dont always have a medium height kid

I read somewhere in a book about discus that they fix a new variety by breeding a offspring that looks like a parent with that parent(not sure on this tho)


When it comes to mixing the fish its all about mouth size. Your bigger oscars will eat the little ones if they will fit in their mouths. So the thing you should be looking at is how quick your little ones grow compared to how quick the bigger ones mouths grow. It is obvious that the little ones will grow quicker that the bigger ones mouths. A full size oscar couldnt eat a 5 inch oscar so you will not have to wait long. So just feed as normal and wait a while. When you add them tho keep an eye out for bullying.

you can never be surten exactly how the babys are gonne look at every pair of oscars have diffrent family straints and it could go back many generations of O's unless you you know for defnit that both the parents and all their parents all the way back were lemons u couldnt be sure,but im sure you will atleast get one lemon baby out of all those eggs(we hope)