oscar toys!

[Fuzz16]

ok so im sitting here eating cottage cheese
reading up on oscars
and ideas for toys....though i dont think they actually "play" with them like a dog does, i think they get bored and so i need toys in the tank. ader.

-so i was thinking about supergluring ping pong balls to string or fishing line and making like a baloon area for him by the filter. the baloon balls with bob in the water!
-platic dog toys and put holes in them and sink them in the water for him in his "play area"
-bunch of fake plants on one side of the tank for him to tear up
trying to think about dogs and their toys...hmm...
-get bobbers in the tank and float things with those

anybody else have ideas? things theyve done in the past and plan on doing for your oscar?



btw...the cottage cheese tastes weird...its like hard. *gags*

 

[Hamburgler]

You guys are nuts with the oscars...

No experience with them but my urophthalmus (large CA cichlid) seems to keep himself occupied all day by moving pieces of lace rock rubble.

 

[Mahamotorworks]

Why not just get them some goldfish friends that he can play with


MAHA

And yes I know that they will eat them.

 

[Fuzz16]

not nuts...just slightly intent on being insane

maybe i will get a bunch of little stones in there, make it look at river like

O! maybe i could make like a hill around something and he could have a cave!


and maha....mmm no...cause then i would feel sad lol...cause i would end up naming the goldies and then id have to make them all cozy...then i would see them devoured behind my back *cries at the thought*

 

[Mahamotorworks]

It was just a thought.

MAHA

 

[Lovingmytank]

I read somewhere you can get a bell in the corner of the tank and teach him/her to ring it when hungry!

Downside is the constant ringing will annoy the hell out of you!

 

[sweetpickles7]

Something that i just tried to do was put a bubble wall in the middle of my tank, under the substrate to hold it down.And Zeus LOVES it.Its really funny to watch him chase after the bubbles!*SUPERSMIL

 

[burtoncb47]

i dont have any experience with oscars other then feeding and catching them at work but i think that the dog toy with holes sounds like a really cool idea

JJ

 

[Fuzz16]

i picked Peanut up a small stuffed animal that squeks when you squeeze it...he kinda...its not...squeking anymore
then he got bored of it

 

[burtoncb47]

haha sounds like fun!

JJ

 

[missdixie256]

Try practice golf balls with tons and tons of holes poked in them. Draegan plays with his. I let them free-float.

He also enjoys his Marimo-ball that he drags around.

 

[JJDoyle2004]

I have a bubble wall also, and De La Hoya loves it too, thou I've never seen him chase the bubbles, but he'll sit in the streams of bubbles and just looks so happy! I do like the golf balls idea though, I might try that.