Oscar Breeding and Care
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Hello Everyone,
Wanted to share with you how we care for our Oscars and what to consider if you plan to breed them. They are great fish with a ton of personality - we call them our little water dogs because they basically act like...well.....dogs only in water! : -)
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Here are some species profiles of fish we have kept with Oscars. Might be worth a look!
Geophagus tapajos: ruclips.net/video/5SwK9fg-dJM/видео.html
Geophagus steindachneri: ruclips.net/video/yfVx-TOCc_M/видео.html
Jewel Cichlid: ruclips.net/video/mZmCQc_oY9Y/видео.html
Red Tail Shark: ruclips.net/video/PMIQ_p5o4Cs/видео.html
Bala Shark: ruclips.net/video/6dRXalv-XjA/видео.html
Severum: ruclips.net/video/xnUJKMhr_nU/видео.html
Bristlenose Plecos (only full grown): ruclips.net/video/RRt_tjOKY84/видео.html
Chinese Algae Eater (Full Grown): ruclips.net/video/1oK1QSzsOuM/видео.html
Finally a Oscar care video where someone knows what it’s like to own them
Thank you! We love them😀
@@PrimeTimeAquatics could you do an update on your Oscar fish tank. Are they still in the 125. Or did you have to move them up to the 180
@@PrimeTimeAquatics hello, I have 2 Oscar’s that are 3 inches. When I first introduced them to each other they locked lips and circled each other for a few minutes, But after that they follow each other everywhere and kinda rub on each other in a peaceful way as they swim around. Do you think I have a male & female or is this common for 2 males to show this behavior?
This is one of the few RUclips Videos that actually give proper information 👍
Appreciate you watching!
Spot on for the feeding . My oscars are EXTREMELY messy eaters. Had some Betta pellets and just tried it and they ate damn near all of it. Thank you sir
My black tiger Oscar was in a tank with a green terror, jaguar and Jack Dempsey and he was king of the tank
Wow. That's cool it worked out that way. I have found once the Jack's or Green Terrors start ruling a tank they can be rough!
You got lucky lol
My jack ruled the tank I had to move him lol
This is a tremendous in-depth, informative video that gives "pause" for reflection as to whether one has within ones' self " the where-with-all " to properly address ALL ASPECTS OF HAVING TO CARE FOR THESE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES. Kudos to you sir !!!
Thank you!
Bought mine Christmas 2021. It's now bigger than my hand. What a personality it has. Very awesome fish. As for aggressiveness; Mine just aggressively eats. Very powerful fish.
Other good companions: chocolate cichlid, festivum and best live food: earthworms - they love them and they make no mess.
my Oscars didn't like them. they liked the pellets better
I did not know much about these fish except for big and aggressive. Thank you so much for the information. These fish get to big for me to handle. So I will need to enjoy yours. They are beauties.
I find myself doing the same thing with other fish kept by RUclipsrs as well. : -)
Love this, as for live plants, Amazon swords have worked for me also Madagascar lace Works,
Well i have 4 different types of oscars- in my 250g tank. Copper, Albino Tiger, Super Red, Albino Red....All are about between 13 to 15 inches...All are near about 4 years old....They wer an inch 4 years back...Lot of memories with them really treat to watch.
That’s so cool!
I don't disagree with the tank size and I've seen Oscars in a 40 gal. I'm that guy who has been successful keeping my Oscars healthy and using 75 gallon for decades. I keep 1 pleco and a large peacock eel with them. I have never checked or owned a ph reader. I run high oxygen sources and constantly filtered and moving water. I'm on my second generation of Oscars. They are a very happy fish community. The eel interacts with the Oscars regularly and points them towards the food. They are a good team
I got a hint for all of you that love keeping fish. You can save a ton of money buy feeding your fish only dried mealworms. You can buy mealworms from stock feed stores for less than 8 dollars for 3 pounds compared to pet stores ripping you off buy selling you expensive feed. Go buy the same mealworms as they sell for chickens. I have feed my fish Thees mealworms for 10 years and they are very healthy and beautiful too. I never feed live feed to my fish. Live feeder carry deseed plus it makes your fish attack everything that moves. Mealworms are very healthy for your fish and stock stores sell them cheep remember dried mealworms the same mealworms they sell for chicken feed. Your fish will love them and grow very healthy too.
I haven't tried that. Interesting.
you can always cook the ones you don't want to keep or feed them to the ones you like to keep etc..
Very informative & great detail. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks man!
you have sold me on these fish, I'm going to get one for sure
They are great fish as long as they have the space to grow. Thanks for watching!
Agree with you 100% about the tank size, unless you have some serious filtration. I had 2 large power filters hooked up to a ten gallon tank filled with an under gravel filter and about 6 inches of gravel. I fed this into my 125. worked very well and cut the water changes down to a minimum. I also had some floating plants in both tanks to help with water quality. Worked very well.
Sounds like a nice setup!
I have a 75 gallon with a tiger oscar, jack Dempsey, firemouth, convict, green terror and a jewel I got them all around 2 inches they r between 4-5 inches now yes as they get bigger they will go into a bigger tank or their own tanks but the most aggressive fish in the tank was the jewel cichlidmoved it to a 30 gallon with a polleni and a dividers untill I can get another tank
i always breed my own feeder fish
Great video. If possible could you do an update with them
Cmon Oscar, fish are FRIENDS, NOT FOOD...
Good luck 😂
100+ should be good for Oscar fish this can go so many ways on keep in a oscar
I think the red oscars look much prettier than the regular tiger oscars for sure. that solid gold with that gray head on the red oscars look really good on the red oscars
I don’t know why he called them red they are called copper Oscar
this is why im putting mine in my
pond when it out grows my tank
Cool!
The clip at the end is a perfect example of Oscar behavior. They’ll be all excited to eat but dare you bump the tank even once.
Yep, sometimes I come down stairs and he's sleeping on his side looking half dead only to race around the tank two minutes later.
Fantastic fish, love the Oscars!
Thank you!
I totally agree about the smaller pellets
I had some jumbo food sticks I got for free and they just shredded those things - little pieces going everywhere. Not cool!
I love Oscars.
When
Ikr
great video man. you have me wanting Oscars more than ever now, although I don't know if i'll ever have a 125 gallon. if I did get a bigger tank I would have to put my mixed Malawi cichlids in there... I've been dreaming of that for 10+ years. thanks for the info, going to check out some of your other older videos.
Thanks! Oscars are very cool in the right set-up. We love ours.
For some reason all my Oscar's have been super aggressive. I added a whole bunch of other new world cichlids with my tiny oscars in a 3ft tank but had to move them due to them attacking everyone, even bitting the net.
Don't worry the 3ft is just a qt tank. I'm in the process of setting up a 6ft×3ft×3ft.
That's the crazy thing about cichlids. They often have such diverse personalities. Mine have been really good about accepting new fish once they get used to them.
Great video man! Loved it! ❤
Thank you. Appreciate you watching!
We had an Oscar in our 75g planted tank. Bought him as a juvie, knew he'd get big. But we needed something that would clean up a swordtail explosion. Baby swordtails were his favorite food. But by the time he got big enough to eat the adults he was big enough to hassle everything else as well. I don't recall having a problem with the plants. Most of our plants are planted near rocks, maybe that dissuaded any uprooting. He was a phenomenal fish, I'd love to get one again. But 75g is definitely too small. By the time you add wood and rocks there just isn't much room for him to swim. I'm not running a bare-bottom abomination just to fit a fish.
Really appreciate you sharing. They are fun fish to have though. : -)
I have 3 full grown oscars in a 150 gallon tank with a green terror a electric green and a red devil and one gold fish lol they don't even bother eachother I love it! But I have 2 baby oscars in another tank and they were locking lips this morning
125 is a great tank for a pair
I'm not sure what it is about heaters that sets the aggression off in some Oscars, I've had a few over the years that took a dislike to the glass tubes haha
Fish can be weird like that. : -)
Nice man u hit that nail.
omg there a lovely i 149 uk gallons tank and looking so get oscars and my dad had when i was growing up and i always wanted to have them in my front cos there relaxing to watch great video different help me out thanks
Appreciate you watching!
I'am getting a 100gallon soon, I was thinking of oscars, do you recommend? dimensions (72x18x18)
I think it will work for a while. As they become full grown it might get cramped. I'm thinking my 125 is not optimal, if they get bigger I may upgrade at some point!
thx
Prime Time Aquatics my tank is 60 inches long I have two 7 inch Oscar is that ok for now about the same size as yours or Should I upgrade to a 7ft or 8 ft tank
Awesome fishes 👍
I have a couple growing out in a 75 gallon now. Moving them to a 210 in a few months.
That will be awesome!
I can’t believe you were surprised when the Oscar ate the crawdad That’s one of their main food sources in the wild💯
Haha. I wasn’t surprised so much that they ate them, just how small the Oscars were when they tried to eat a huge crayfish!
Wow nice.
It can't be that tough to get rid of additional oscar babies... One can always feed them to bigger fish as feeder... Right???
Sure. As long as the bigger fish want to spend the energy to catch. : -)
The ending was epic!
Great advice
Thank you!
My large female Oscar only eats small fish that I spend money on. I bought a school of 18 3” fish, and they were gone in a few days.
Then I decided to put some convict fry (around 1”) to cull them... she didn’t touch a single one and now some are pushing 2-5”.
I thought it would be safe to add some Buenos Aires tetras that were over 2” each, and she ate them.
She’s a diva. Her life-partner died (blind, and I’m guessing egg-bound) and she sulked On the bottom of the tank in the corner I removed the body for months.
I adopted a friend for her, and she rejected it for a few months, but she’s finally accepted it.
After the last water change, they started exhibiting spawning behavior, choosing a rock, “cleaning” it, and becoming very aggressive/territorial. I was trying to bring a worm to her a little while ago, and she ignored the worm and attacked my hand 😂
I love them.
I've had oscars do the same. Leave guppies alone in a tank that were there before the oscar and eat anything else that was small enough afterwards. So weird. Sounds like you may have a pair!
Prime Time Aquatics
I’m hoping it’s a same-sex pair like I had before. 😳 I don’t want to deal with fry, or parents protecting fry.
The large female (around 12”) i currently have I saw laying eggs a year ago, the only other time she’s ever bitten me. I assumed the blind one, that she was so close to, was male, but unable to fertilize the eggs due to being 80% blind (rough estimate). After the blind one passed away, I discovered she had eggs in her ☹️
I coulda sworn it was a male/female pair with how they interacted, but I was wrong.
Her new friend is still pretty young, maybe around 7-8”, and has recently discovered that the 12” Vieja syns/ flowrhorn hybrid is a pushover 🤣
I’m planning on moving my biggies outside to a 720gal fiberglass tank with a window in the coming month.
As far as the plastic lid, it might have been condensation droplets collecting and moving.
I’m growing a few out in a 4 footer. Bit aggressive at the moment as there harassing my Saratoga lol. Can’t wait to see em get 12 inch plus
That's because you should not even have one in a four footer,did you listen to the video?
There going in a huge set up in December. I know how big they get man.
I actually have and oranda and a black moor that pretty much school with my Oscar's. The Oscars are only about 6 inches now. And the oranda and black moor will be moved to my koi pond soon
I just got a baby one for my 90 gallon. I also have him with a jeweled cichlid, 2 blood parrot cichlids and a green phantom pleco. I'm in the process of removing all of my nano tank set up in place of larger set ups. If there is anyone in Eastern MA who wants Free set ups with fish included let me know.
I kept African 3 claw frogs with my two Oscars . Occasionally in when in a bad mood they would goose a frogs butt. They never hurt them though .
Awesome video and Thanks for Sharing. My Oscar that I named Big Al can read too lol.
Thank you very informative!!!
Thank you! Hope it helped
I have a 75 with a baby Oscar a female jack and 5 giant danios and I was going to add some yo yo loaches and a bristlnose pleco the female jack will only get 4 to 5 inches and the yo yo loaches will get 4 to 5 inches as well is that okey do you think I have a lot of filtration in the tank
I think for now you will probably be ok - you may have to upgrade the tank size for the oscar as it grows larger.
Prime Time Aquatics cool thanks if he gets too big what would you suggest besides getting a bigger tank
Prime Time Aquatics do you think that’s a little overstocked or is that ok
Prime Time Aquatics do you think a 75 with an Oscar fem jack giant danios (dithers) and a fem convict and finally a b pleco i have potholed and a penguin hotb filter going to get a sun sun 525 gph
Please update us on this beautiful red Oscar. I love this fish so much.
I showed it off in fish room tour part 1 2021! :-)
They look very healthy.
Thank you! It's funny going back to this video and seeing how small they were when we recorded this.
For me I have some oscars and it’s with a fire mouth and green terror and Jack Dempsey and they’re doing very good
Btw beautiful pair of oscars you got there
My large Oscar who I had to give away when pregnant as couldn't look after it properly use to get a pinki mouse once a week it was huge ... I had pet snakes so had frozen mice for the snakes that were brought frozen and I defrosted them etc 😂
Nice fish
Thank you!
I have three Oscar’s in a 55gal for a start out they are babies they like 4 inches I’m about to move to Nashville ima grab an 125Gal but I don’t see why y’all call it the red Oscar it’s called an copper Oscar I own one now I have an copper black Oscar and an lemon Oscar they all around the same age and around 4in I’ll be grabbing a 125 gal in like 2 months accurate video tho I salute
Amazing video I am your new subscribers
Awesome! Thanks for being here. : -)
Whoa!
great videos man.
Thank you!
I have a 100 gallon bow front tank and and I'd really like to breed my oscar but still want some tank mates to add a little more color and activity to the tank but dont know what would be acceptable to add
Anything you add would eat oscar babies or be killed by the oscars when they form a breeding pair.
I miss my Oscars. When I put my hand in the tank for maintenance they would swim into my hand so I'd rub them.
Mine never seem to care about me doing tank maintenance either. Sometimes I have to gently move them out of the way when gravel vac-ing.
I had a pair of small convicts with my Oscar, and he got wrecked! I had to separate them
It's amazing what big babies Oscars can be! : -)
so having no gravel should be easier and healthier for the fish ?
I prefer to have some type of substrate in all my tanks.
I have a Polypterus (Lung Fish) with my two Oscars. I almost got a Rope Fish the other day but they were already all sold :( I would like to have a pangasius or 2 with my Oscars. Thoughts? Would that work out? I love Pangasius for their rather chilled manner of swimming up and down. I don't want that to stress or annoy my Oscars though...
The pairing would be fine. I wouldn’t keep that fish in anything less than about a 18-20ft tank. I’ve seen them get at least 4ft long and extremely round and somewhat tall - they are extremely large fish.
Is it possible to add a mbuna yellow lap cichlid with Oscar. I have one that I got Free from someone that seems a bit to big for my general mbuana tank.
I'm thinking of getting g into Oscars, buying a large tank a recommended amd maybe add the large mbuna with the Oscars. Maybe my convict as well with is getting bigger than the rest in current mbuna tank.
Temperament wise they can get along, but sometimes the diet can be hard to deal with.
Wow Jason this video is retro 👊🏽
It sure is :-)
@@PrimeTimeAquatics 👊🏽 hey Jason just started up a channel please check it out. Thanks
Very nice pets !!!
Thank you!
it loves eating..
Great video very informative but far too many ads
Thanks. I'll check to see how it's set-up!
What light or light color are you using? The color stands out nice!
I have a very strange mix on that tank - two 36" finnex stingrays and a 48" shop light that gives off a softer/warmer (more yellow) light in the middle.
My oscars (3 between 5-7 inches) are with a blood parrot (4 inches), an arowana (12 inches), and a jaguar cichlid (6 inches). Do you think they will eventually fight? The arowana is the only fish that shows damage with a few ripped fins. They are in an outdoor 12 ft., 1,700 gallon heated pool pond. Once they grow a little more, I plan to add a redtail and maybe remove the parrot cichlid and then leave the stocking like that.
Sound like a great set-up. If I had to pick one fish in that mix to keep an eye on it would be the Jaguar cichlid. However, you have a huge space for them, and if there are some hiding spots for the oscars and jaguar it might work out. Just keep an eye on them. Would love to hear updates on the set-up as you progress!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I'll be sure to update you if anything changes. Thinking about making some vids on the pond and my other fish. And I will keep an eye on the jag and remove him if anything changes. Thanks for the feedback!
I have a dozen tiger Barb's in a 75 with a 7 year old Oscar. He chased them around for the first week or so but is more of an ambush predator, he gave up after that.
ScapeTucson My Oscar doesn’t bother with smaller fish either. 😀
I feel bad now because I was going to put a single Oscar in a 75 gallon but you say that’s pushing the limits and I know I’m not going to get a bigger tank than 75 so looks like I have to rehome this little guy he still about 5 inches
He'll be ok in there for a little while. If he is the only one in the tank you might have a decent amount of time before you have to do anything!
Prime Time Aquatics thanks so much for your feedback 👍🏾
I have a pair of oscars and the big one is pinning the smaller one in one corner once inna whiten they lip lock but other than that the big one typically just nudging the side of the small one the small one typically doesn’t come out of the corner and allows the big one free range of the tank when the nudging occurs it’s very gentle and sometimes the smaller one will shake little is this the big one seems to be obsessed with the smaller one i had the smaller one first and it was the aggressor at first but seems like the bigger one has now become the aggressor No bite marks / no fin tearing but is this .. bullying ? Or mating behavior ?
It sounds more like bullying?
Had the same problem with a crayfish
It's amazing how big the crayfish were compared to them at the time. Haha
Great video! I plan on putting a six Oscar colony in a 650 gallon tank. You mentioned green terrors are typically too aggressive. I know from my ears a saltwater side of things that when we get to really large tank volumes a lot of stocking rules kind of go out the window. Would that possibly be true in regards to that colony of Oscars and a green terror?
At 650 gallons - you would probably have the highest likelihood of success.
I have a question. I rescued a 5 year old tiger oscar cichlid from someone but he clearly is not the size he is supposed to be. he is only 6 inches. what should i do?
I would make sure it has at least a 6ft tank and feed normally.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics i have a 150 gallon with him in it. I'm worried though because of how small he is. and i feed him twice a day
Great video! New sub.🤗
Thank you - glad you are here!
My girlfriend brought home an Oscar and I’ve had them before I put it in my 125gallon tank and he’s been growing up with baby convicts he’s big enough to eat the baby’s but they thrive with him he don’t eat nobody. Can you have an Oscar that is in a tank with probably 20 small 1 inch convicts and even some smaller than a half inch? Because he honestly doesn’t attack them. I wonder if he wouldn’t attack them later on since he’s been around all these other fish
My Oscar is in a tank with dozens of OB cichlid babies and never seems to bother them. My Oscar is well fed so I don't think he wants to waste the energy to chase around small fish. Perhaps this is the exception, not the norm, but our 125 is one of our most productive fry tanks in the fish room with the large Oscar in it!
Prime Time Aquatics so I’m not the only one that’s good to know and also I’m trying to get into that I just started watching your channel you should make a video on breeding your peacocks cichlids if that’s what you meant by OB I’ve been breeding convicts for awhile. Wanna do something else I set up a 55 gallon long in my room could be a 75 gallon idk but I have sand some slate and a few flower pots. You should make a video on what proper temps what you feed them and how you know when your fish are getting ready to breed water parameters ECT. I’ve watched a lot of videos and just not everything is included one video. One will tell you temp but not tell you water parameters and it’s just hard watching all these videos so it’d be cool if it was all in one. I’ll be definitely checking out your channel this video was my first but I would love to see some of that. Thanks for the reply
Iv been wanting to get an Oscar for a very long time, I have a 75 gallon aquarium sitting empty in my living room !!!
Same
My Albino oscar was attacked by my 2 tiger oscars in their tank, we had to separate the albino by placing a divide. I am in firm belief that the 2 tigers have coupled off as they get on with no issues, i did read if there are females in the group the males will beat off other males. So maybe the Albino is also a male.
That could very well be the case.
How do you take care of water circulation with just sponge filters?
They do an adequate job on their own.
Since this is an old video idk if ill get a response but could I keep an Oscar pair in an overfiltered 90 gallon long term or is that too small?
I prefer a 6ft tank long term.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics OK thank you! Probably will not go for Oscars then and turn it into a reef
Oscars are king 🐠🤓
I appreciate your knowledge about the care, water qlity, warnings about space requirement etc, but to give you my opinion, oscars or any other fish of the same size and nature are NOT suited to a home aquarium at all.
Even that 125G looks too small for them. They only need to swing their tails twice and they've made from the one end to the other. They're constantly visible to each other and there's nothing there that they cannot see with one glance. (Still, your Oscars are doing better than most Ive seen.)
Ive yet to see a 'big fish tank' that I found to be relaxing to watch. Looks like some people just like to keep big fish, and I just dont understand why. They dont seem to have a sense of proportion when it comes to fish-to-tank size-ratio. Your tank might be 100, 250 or 500 G, but compared to any natural habitat it's still a small cage, for a fish this big.
What I'd like to see is an aquarium shop taking a stand: we do not sell fish, like Oscars, that are too big for home aquariums.
My oscar is agressive. He killed my silver arowana.when i introduced the arowana,my oscar started attacking it and bursted his swim bladder. I put the oscar in my friends tank and treated the arowana.unfortunately,he died the next day.my poor arowana 😢😢
Sorry to hear that, but I appreciate you sharing.
do one for a florda Gar
What lights do you have??
Mostly Finnex Stingrays
Does keeping three Oscars work for you? I prefer pairs because I heard they can become closer to one and outcast the third one. I just got a 125 gallon and want to get two young Oscars.
I think it did in my case because they grew up together, but you never know long term.
What is your thoughts on an oscar with a flowerhorn? I've had a couple haps in with my flower horn while I remodeled their tank and Pebbles ( FH) did just fine with ignoring them for the most part. He's about 5 inches and a gentle giant and I just ordered an Oscar . I have a set up to put him alone but if possible I'd like to give pebbles a budddy . thoughts ?
My guess is the flowerhorn will eventually kill the oscar?
i have lots of thanks, and i see lots of different thinks. I have a Spar 75, would 1 oscar sit happily? or should i try a Flowerhorn?
It could probably grow out in a 75, but you would probably want to move it at some point to a larger tank.
I have one Oscar in a 60 gallon tank. I have 4 sponge filters in there. 2 large sponge and 2 small. Do you think it'll take care of my Oscar or should I get some more filteration? I do 50% water change every week.
That should be ok.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thanks so much for replying. Your subscriber for a long time.
My Oscar pair just laid a huge clutch and I don't know what to do...! I have cichlids in my tank also and I'm sure theyll eat the fries up if the eggs survive... I don't the space nor the time to set up another tank
If you don't want to raise them just leave them alone. They will become fish food for everyone else. There isn't a very strong market for Oscar fry because they have so many fry.
Great video, I was wondering what type of artificial plants are In the tank I would like to get a few for my 90gallon
gentleblkthug It’s been a while, but I think they were Aquatop brand?
You cannot put a few in a 90 gallon
should i leave the light on at night when breeding oscar??
Great question - I don't but I do leave some type of very dim room light on so they can at least see another fish coming into the area to snack on babies.
Is it okay to breed them in (24/15/15) 25gallon tank?
Any recommendations for something to add with my Oscar, I thought large mystery snails will be cool but the Oscar was not okay with that. I was thinking about adding my large common pleco but the tank has only sand and rocks would a piece of Beach Driftwood be okay for the common pleco? Other wood does not match the light sand in the tank...
Common plecos work, but they get so huge (18" should be pretty easy in an aquarium).Mine have always left full-grown bristlenose plecos alone, although there is no guarantee your will.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics ok thank you very much i was thinking about the geophagus* as a tank mate to help keep the sand clean. My concern for the pleco was the lack of wood in the tank and if beach drift wood is edible for the pleco. As a new fish keeper i bought a turtle , an oscar and a pleco for a 20 gallon.
I have now educated myself and have began the process of making things right. Aka Mylasian turtle in a 75g east asian themed tank , oscar and pleco in 125 sand and rock tank.
Sorry for all the questions, love all your videos.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!