Hi All,need advice was given an Oscar & some cichlids at a Garage Sale

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Leogirl

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Nov 22, 2006
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This is a strange way to be introduced to this breed but when at a Garage sale on the weekend, the guy offered me some fish which he'd taken out of the tank and had in a plastic storage bin.

I had a small tank with 1 Angel & 2 Silver Dollars and he gave me a very sad Oscar approx 5 inches long and some cichlids which had been with him in their 3 ft tank for a while, am still searchin to find out all their names.Have not had any probs with my Angel & them

My problem is the Oscar is undernourished, the guy gave me some pellet food, I had some frozen shrimp & bloodworm which my fish liked, all the cichlids are eatin ok but the oscar is a little slow.

I have a friend's husband who had africans & he suggested givin him ox heart to build him up and try to establish a rapport with him.

I will be settin up my 3ft tank for them in the next few days, and should be able to get some lava rock and have some shells, may pick up a couple more africans to put in the new tank so the territories can be established from scratch; so the info I have read so far has been a big help.
 

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Cichlid-Man

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Jul 9, 2003
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I'd do some waterchanges and get him in some "Healthy" water for a while before pounding him with food. Sometimes fish just get so stressed in dirty water that they stop eating.

Depending on what the other fish are i would not feed bloodworms, shrimp, or ox heart very much. At least not till you find out their species. If they turn out to be Africans from Malawi they cannot handle that much protein in their diet.

And if they are indeed africans i would not mix the oscar with the africans, personally. Their water requirements are different, food requirements are different, and the fast moving active africans might stress a slower moving large SA/CA cichlid like an Oscar.
 

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