I have a few questions...I put the water in the tank and forgot about using UGJs or reverse flowing an undergravel filter. Is either necessary? I am currently running an Emperor 280. I stumbled across this online

www.aquaticeco.com/subcategories/462/AZOO-Circulating-Pipes


and am curious about if it can help, given I have such strong filtration. Because I'm getting a small one, I wanted to keep him with some guppies..is that ok? Any help is greatly appreciated; I'd prefer if I had too much info to work with and not enough.

(oh, btw...I know I'll have to get a 55 gallon tank soon )

The setup you have at the moment will be okay for a little while whilst your Oscar is still very small. But once it starts going you're not going to be able to maintain a 30 gallon tank with that kind of filtration.

Oh, I'm sure your oscar would love to share the tank with some guppies. , That would be rather like someone opening a packet of chocolate biscuits and leaving them next to me on my desk

OFL wrote:


I literally loled there. Thanks.

A reverse flow UGF will give you extra filtration and also helps keep the gravel clean. Now oscars dig so if you are going to use a RUGF you need the UGF then with some gravel on top. Then you need a gravel tidy with some more gravel on top

You first concern should be a bigger tank

OFL wrote:


I plan on purchasing an Aquaclear 50, as well as an Emperor 400 within two weeks.


LOL @ chocolate biscuits

Thriller1911 wrote:


better sooner than later that is.
But with running those new filters on the tank you have now, you will be able to transfer the cycled filters to the new tank and rehome the O immediately when you get the tank.

Another question: I'm running the Emperor 400 on a 30 gallon tank. Is that too much filtration?

There is no such thing as TOO much filtration on an Oscar tank! LOL

You can never have to much and if your replacing the tank soon anyway it dosent matter that emperor 400 should be fine.

With a 30 gallon tank there isn't really any need to completely over filter it because it is only big enough for a certain amount of small community fish so a standard filter will be perfectly adequate. We normally only recommends really over filtrating an aquarium when you're keeping messy fishlike Oscars. Having said that, as long as the filter isn't causing huge amounts of water disturbance inside your 30 gallon tank then there's nothing wrong with using it. just my opinion

valid point =P

He actually ate ONE pellet from my hand, then swam away. Baby steps, I suppose. I put a block of bloodworms in the tank and he devoured most of it, attacking it like prey.

Is he too young for those homemade recipes I've seen forum members post? I want to diversify his diet early so he doesn't become picky as he gets older...

Also, are floating pellets better than sinking ones?