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Introducing new oscars 4 years, 1 month ago #12752

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Hi..My name is Kiran Raj..I'm from Malaysia. Currently i have a pair of red oscars which is about 5.5 inces:whistle: . Recently my dad bought a pair of tiger oscars which is 2 inches:) .i have divided my 4 feet tank into a 1 feet and a 3 feet.The question is can i put my oscar in the same side??
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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years, 1 month ago #12753

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provided you have enough place for your new oscars to hide you should be able to introduce them into your tank with the older ones.but you should keep an eye on the situation in case problems arise.

fyi...a tank with a 4' footprint is way small for 4 oscars to live in long term. oscar grow at about 1" per month so you'll begin having water problem in a relatively short time. you should start looking now for a tank in the 180 imp gallon range for long term housing of your o's.

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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years, 1 month ago #12754

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Thanks necromancer4...Your help is much appreciated.Others are welcome.
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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years, 1 month ago #12763

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Hi. I was just wondering if a 6 feet tank will be big enough for a total of 5 oscars?? I have 15 kilo's of thumb sized pebbles. Is it okay for the oscars.??:angry:
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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years, 1 month ago #12768

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Introducing an oscar to a tank with an oscar already in it cant be fraught with difficulty. It is much easier when they are like your fish small (and young). You have done the right thing with a divider. Leave them like this for a few weeks or even a couple of months. This gives the fish on either side time to get a territory. Then remove the divider and hope they get on. There will be some squabbling but hopefully things will settle quite quickly

Oscars need 55g minimum for one oscar with an additional 25g for each extra oscar. So for 5 oscars you need at least 155g. If you have 5 oscars in a 55g tank you will doing a lot of tank maintainance, with less oscars it will need less effort to keep them in good water. My advice is test water before a water change. If nothing has gone wrong and you get as result above zero for ammonia and nitrite then you need more filtration. If nitrate are above 40 then you need to do more and/or bigger water changes

You may still get problems with the oscars fighting when they get mature especially if you have 2 or more males, although i have heard that oscars tend to get on well in groups of 6 or more.
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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years, 1 month ago #12778

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Hi it's me again. I've tried introducing my new pair into the tank.And guess what they got along just fine:P ..Thanks everyone for your help..
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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years ago #12787

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Its good they get on. have fun with your fish and watching them grow
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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years ago #12806

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Hi..My tiger o's just don't seem to like bloodworms:angry: like my red o's..What do you guys think should feed them??

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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years ago #12812

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A varied diet is the best. Some examples are fish pellets, frozen prawns, muscles, lance fish, maggots, meal worms, earthworms, any small fish from fishmongers and any insects you can get (as long as they are not poisonous)
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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years ago #12817

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Oh and my tiger o's is 2 inch long...

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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years ago #12818

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Hello everyone..one of my tiger o's is always bullied by the larger red o's:angry: ..The other tiger o's got along with the red o's just fine:side: ..The three becomes a sort of like a pack... Does anyone know why it is like this??
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Re:Introducing new oscars 4 years ago #12841

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man ur lucky, i tryed adding in a oscar who was just a tad smaller then the bigger of the 2 i already had (so he was between the 2 in size) that lasted for about a month, you could tell the new guy was never happy. they were still juvinillies and i tell ya, this guy is mean. the only fish he doesnt bother is the lepordinus who is a tad bigger
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