My wife likes oscars

[lordroad]

We were in the LFS a couple weeks ago and Leah my wife was browsing through the freshwater section. She called me over and said there was a fish she really liked and wondered if we could get one for my 55 gallon.

The fish were a bunch of 2 inch tiger oscars. She loved them, amazingly enough.

She could care less about discus. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought she would have been into big, aggressive CA cichlids.

Then I showed her some green terrors. She liked them, but she still prefered oscars.

Gives me the excuse to start another big freshwater tank when we buy a house.

 

[SPIKE88]

Oscars are great! Kind of messy though. I wish I had the resources to own a few. My big tank is reserved for frontosas though.

 

[FroggyFox]

Sweet! Ya know...I wish I could do another big tank...my parents are always gushing about how much they loved their oscars years ago when they had fish

 

[Orion]

I wouldn't really call them aggressive. They are teritorial, they are cichlids after all, but not all out aggressive like many of it's counterparts. But if a fish fits in it's mouth, it's most likley going to be eaten.

I think they are great. I had one for quite a while and was a gem to keep. I would love to have some more one day, just need the space for them of course.

 

[fishtrap]

I wish my wife liked them. She has a thing for plecos! Go figure

 

[BigDaddy420]

yeah, orion is right, they really arent aggressive, my oscar is kind of a sissy actually, scared of his own shadow. i almost came home with a new one and a 55, if i could have found some biospira i probably would have brought him home. i never seen an oscar with those colors before, he was black with silver and white spotting like a tiger oscar, just beautiful. so bright colors, i was impressed for a walmart fish, but it was the first day the walmart was open, i doubt they cycled anything im sure all of those fish will be dead. the oscar was incredible though, i would have loved to seen how he turned out when he was 8-10 inches.

 

[Orion]

Yeah I should have mentioned that while he was still growing at 9inches we tried to find a tankmate for him and bought a single 1.5 inch convict. We had to take the convict back because he would not let the oscar out of the corner, not even to eat. He was a pansy. lol. But still loved the guy.

 

[lordroad]

Hey Orion, how about you get back into the world of oscars with your 75 gallon you're looking to restock?

Maybe a firemouth cichlid as a tankmate? Or a texas?

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Always great when you other half likes big cichlids! Let alone will go to the LFS with you.

 

[lordroad]

Always great when you other half likes big cichlids! Let alone will go to the LFS with you.

lol

She was in rare form. One time we went to get Subway (next door to the LFS) and I went in and looked around... she was waiting in the car glaring at me while I was at the counter until she finally stormed in and demanded what the hold up was.

Then she saw the saltwater flasher wrasse and the jbj nanocube, then the oscar, so I think she likes going in better now.

 

[Orion]

eh I've pondered it. Part of me wants a wet pet, but then agian I want more of a community setting.

 

[BigDaddy420]

go with the oscar orion. you wont regret it i so wish i could have gotten the one at walmart i seen, i love my albino tiger but some part of me wishes i would have waited and got a red tiger.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Oscars are what got me hooked on cichlids, and keeping fish ingeneral. However ironically i can hardly stand them now.

 

[BigDaddy420]

u can hardly stand them? why? i hope i like mine for awhile, i bought the smallest one i could find so i could watch him grow. i actually wish i could get another one. i just wanna focus on getting this one in a little bit bigger tank. i guess sometimes it is frustrating see the one fish in that tank but i guess its an experience, maybe after i have this one i wont want another one either. its been a fun ride so far though

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Not sure. I've never been a big fan of the larger SA/CA cichlids. I prefer african's personality over SA/CA cichlids', and i think oscars are very drab in color.

Plus its sometimes considered a sport fish in Florida, meaning that its very common. I love uncommon fish, you see oscars everywhere.

Oh yeah and that whole 1 fish per 55gal tank thing...lol i can't stand it. Even at people's houses i get kind of antsy around those type of tanks, makes me want to just burst and start having a seziure.....ok not that extreme but...

I do enjoy some of the smaller SA/CA cichlids though even though they are no africans, and am looking into keeping more in the future.

I have 2 dogs in the backyard, i don't need another in my tanks. I want to see the natural personality of my fish not them eating out of hands, etc.