i cant get over how big nemo is now hes /her is doing fantastic your doing brill keep the pics comeing when your not so busy julie

Here are a few pics I just took of Nemo





I am happy to say he will now eat pellets. He gets pellets several times a day, and I keep bloodworms in a worm cone most of the time so he can eat whenever he wants. Today he got moved to yet another new tank, he is now in a 30 gallon. I also went to my local shop, and the owner is ordering me in some baby red oscars. Hopefully I can pair Nemo up with a red, and have another breeding pair. The store onwer already placed his order for next week, so they will go on his Thursday order next week. So expect sometime in about 2 weeks to see some new tankmates for Nemo.


These pics are of they fry born Sept 29th, they are now 1 month old, and doing good. I started introducing them to flake and freezedried bloodworms much earlier than I did Nemo, and it seems to have been a good move. They are all eating well on flake. Today they got moved to a 20 gallon tank of their own.

Wow, very cool!

omg nemo looks fantastic cant belive how hes growing you realy do have your hands full with all the wee ones aswell but they all look so healthy great job keep it comeing when you have time i mean julie

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omg:laugh: nemo looks fantastic cant belive how hes growing you realy do have your hands full with all the wee ones aswell but they all look so healthy great job :) :) :) keep it comeing when you have time i mean :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: julie

Tomorrow is my day that is set aside for major cleanings, so I will try to get some more pics. Everyone is doing good. I am going to head over to my local shop in the morning to remind the owner about my red oscars for Nemo. I may have to have him order some larger ones because Nemo is growing so fast, I don't want him to bully a bunch of little ones. I just hope he pairs up with one of them, and then in a few monts have another breeding pair.

I thought I had a major problem with Nemos new tank. I did get the tank and filter used, and it looked like the tank was leaking from the seals, but as I was trying to find the source of the leak, I discovered it was coming from the top of the tank, and when I finally found it, I found a small crack in the filter. Since it is just a HOB Emperor 280, and hot a pressure canister, I don't think it will be a problem to just seal it with a little silicone.

Nemo still appears to be an albino tiger, so I guess thats what he is. He also seems to be getting a bit of green in his color. You can see it a bit in the last pics I posted.

Now that the babies from sept 29th are a little larger, I did find one that seems to have been born with only one eye. He is one of the larger ones of the group, so I know he is able to find his food, so I think I will move him to a tank of his own just incase it gets infected, and I don't want to spread it to the rest of the tank, but I see no reason to kill him since he still seems to be doing good.

Nemo and the babies are all doing good on flake and pellets now. Tomorrow, I am going to try the babies on a little live bloodworms, to see if they can eat them yet.

It's funny, I was looking back at this thread, and seeing people telling me not to expect to much from Nemo since he was the only one out of all the eggs that survived. Now he is a better looking baby oscar than I see in almost every petshop I go to. I guess he was was just meant to survive.

The parents spawned another set of eggs tonight. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to remove them yet or not. I've been so bussy lately, I'm not sure if I'll have the time to set up another tank for them. I may just give the parents another chance at raising them, and just snatch them out if any of them hatch.

Well I removed that last set of eggs that I mentioned in my last post, and this moring some of them started to hatch. I will be out of the house most of the day so I will have to wait till later tonight to see how many I get.

Everyone is doing good. Nemo is eating just about everything I put in his tank now, and the babies from sept. 29th will eat everything I put in there.

Also if you haven't seen my thread I posted in the main Oscar fish thread, I rescued 3 adult Oscars, 2 tigers and a red. They are doing pretty good, so far only the red has eaten that I saw, but I'm sure it will take some time. I have seen some tail twitching and lip locking in them, so maybe 2 of them will pair off and I can get another breeding pair.

I have also seen Nemo doing some fin twitching with his reflection in the glass, so maybe even at such a young age, maybe he is thinking of making babies His tankmates should be here by next Thurday so hopefully he will pair off with one of them, and then over time he can start a family of his own