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OK, here is the latest vid of the bubbas, just think, two weeks before this was shot they were eggs on a rock.

Some interesting observations. The albino ones hang out together at the surface and the dark ones hang out together lower down the tank. I guess that is a natural selection thing because in a river that is where they would be better camoflagued, but I want to know how the hell they know what color they are?????

I give them baby brine shrimp but I throw in a half cube of adult brine shrimp too. The larger brine shrimp are bigger than the smaller fry but they have a great time playing tug of war ripping the brine shrimp apart...the apple does not fall far from the tree. They get about 5 feeds a day and 2 x 20% pwc to compensate for the fact that I am giving them alot of small food. I keep the bottom clear of gravel so that I can vacuum it clean each time and I have a canister filter and a sponge filter going. I am keeping them at 27 - 28 degrees celcius and they have a nice air stone when they want to surf the bubbles.

I only lose about 2 or 3 a day and you can generally pick which ones the day before. First it was the deformed ones, then it was the really small ones and now it is the stragglers who go off by themselves and don't join the school finding food. I guess there has to be some survival of the fittest going on in the tank to get a healthy batch at the end. Anyway, here are my little cuties.
Shaz

Wow that's alot of oscars lol well Yu r doing a fine job of being mother lol

Wow, just wow.
natural selection should help out in getting the strongest to survive, allthough i suspect it to be quite a few, if i see this vid.
And boy, am i getting tempted to give my pair a seperate tank.
I never had any babies, allthough i have had couples of allmost any fish me and Dimmy own.
We only get guppies...
But it may be the predatory nature of my Oscars and Gar, and in the other tank the panchax killi fish.
They may have eaten any fry before i ever see them.

and i still wonder where the babies are going in time...

Guys, this is the most fun I have had in a long time! I highly recommend it, especially if you are an Oscar freak...you can just sit and watch them for hours. I have two chairs in front of their tank because they get almost as much attention as the TV. Go on! Get em some fishy porn and a private tank and then put some Barry White on for them. Being an Oscy Mum is fantastic!

sharyn wrote:



We don't have cable TV and we only have a TV in the attic to play some Xbox games.
Fishtanks are allways more fun, and with babies, i can only imagine it to be even better.

Your doing an amazing job sharyn ...

STAFFIE wrote:


thanks staffie, appreciate that...I have been a Mum to multiples before..twins though...not hundreds! If you turn up the volume on my vid you can hear the normal noise of my 5 kids in the background..if you use your imagination it could be the baby fish!!!

Love the pics of your family. I have 2 dogs, little Moodles (maltese / poodles) not really the oscars of the dog world but they give alot to you don't they?

Still a bit of a novice at fish keeping but I quickly learnt the lesson about looking after the water to look after the fish and so I am a bit OCD about my water. Have 12 tanks going at the moment, the kids all have their own but guess who looks after them....I think I need help, psychiatric that is! Why is there not a warning at the pet shops about the addictive nature of fish keeping!!??

sharyn wrote:



Thanks I wish my missus took as much interest in fish keeping as you do lol!!

I couldn't live my life without a staffie I love them to bits.

My kids love helping me with my water changes tho so some budding fish keepers me thinks.

Sharyn! That vid is AWESOME!!! I love all those little babies!

You are doing a great job! Keep us posted on how they grow because I can't set in one of your chairs. As much as I would like to!

That's awesome.

What was the process to make sure the eggs hatched? Did you keep them with the parents, or move them into their own tank?

Some advice, i noticed that there were a lot of eyes missing on the albinos when i used to breed them., then i noticed the tiger ones biting the eyes out. I separated them after that.

jcannonb wrote:


Mum and Dad would consistently eat the eggs so I hatched them in another tank as per instructions on this site.....