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Fighting Oscars 4 years, 5 months ago #8139

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I have had my 2 Albinos and 1 Tiger for about 2 and 1/2 months. I had the albinos for a month before the tiger and he was much smaller. Amazingly the tiger is now the same size as my largest albino, about 6". My tiger always has scarred up sides, they heal in a day or 2, but the large albino always chases him around. The smaller albino never gets bothered with by either fish, and he is about 2/3rds their size. I noticed the tiger sleeps alone the albinos sleep together and unless eating or I am cleaning the tank they stay apart. The large albino won't let him near the small. I know its impossible to tell what this means but my tiger is so pretty and I don't want to get rid of any of them, I do have a lot of oscars though. My thing is if I knew someone who would and could take care of them as well or better then me I would get rid of some but as of now I would have to give them to my LFS and who knows where they would end up? I guess I better find someone because with seven oscars I should find a breeding pair, I have 3 lemons, 1 red lutino (just for description sake I have no idea what he is), 2 albinos (1 is sliverish though), and my Tiger! A lot of fish!!!! Heres some photos -

Re:Fighting Oscars 4 years, 5 months ago #8140

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yeah its really difficult to let one of yr o's go coz u get so attached to them.

if you were closer to me i would hv taken them of yr hand as i just scored a 140gallon(uk) tank for $50 from a mate last night.

in saying that i also cracked and damaged my hundred gallon yesterday luckly it was just a hospital tank.
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Re:Fighting Oscars 4 years, 4 months ago #8161

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Boy, you sure got your hands full lol, very cool though
I would guess the red lutino is exactly what you called it.

Maybe you could try the section for buying/selling fish stuff to find a new home for one or some?

And Vbaby, congrats on the new tank .. AGAIN! hahaha .. you need to update your post on tanks soon again
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Re:Fighting Oscars 4 years, 4 months ago #8178

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Yea its harder with oscars then any other fish, they are so damn messy!!! I will clean their tank with a gravel vac it will look so clean and pristine but then the next day they have 1/6th the bottom covered in feces and thats with almost 3x the filtration. I am adding another cannister filter rated up to 175 gallons to my 160 gallon tank and with any luck it will solve this problem. I have hit a real dilema though, I really want to find a breeding pair out of the four babies but I still love my other 3 and I am afraid that I will have to find them a good home but I have had them for 3 months roughly and spend time with them every day, the albino just rubbed against my hand when cleaning their tank. How could I ship them off to the unknown?

Re:Fighting Oscars 4 years, 4 months ago #8192

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yup ill sit and have a hard think on where im going with all these tanks might just keep the two big ones and sell off the rest in the new year.

will see how it goes.

as long as i can house my 7 O's,1 arowana,2 severums,2 silver $$,2 tinfoils ill be happy
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Re:Fighting Oscars 4 years, 4 months ago #8206

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You will end up with the question of either getting more/bigger tanks, or rehoming them, or return to the LFS and hoping they will be ok, or keeping them all in too small a tank and watching them get ill or worse.

So its more tanks, rehome good, gamble on LFS or watch them get ill. LFS comes before keeping them all in too small a tank
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