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Trouble asked in PetsFish · 1 decade ago

Adding fish in with an oscar...?

I have a pleco, an extra-large oscar, a pictus catfish, and several guppies. My tank is 100 gal, runs 2 heaters, runs 2 filters, and is cleaned every other week or so. My oscar is an albino tiger oscar. I would like to add more fish to the tank, but I don't know what to add. I know my oscar will try to eat anything it can get in its mouth, so what are some types I could raise in my 29 gal and then release into the 100 gal? Would more pictus catfish be ok since I know they are schooling fish (plus my oscar no longer views them as food, at least the one in with him)? And he's seemed to stop eating live fish, excluding the pictus, cuz he tried that one.

Update:

Please don't suggest fish that will have the possibility of killing my oscar or any other fish I have in the tank. I have grown rather attached over the months I've had them.

Update 2:

Please stop suggesting red devils. I did research on them, they are more aggressive than I want and I refuse to add anything that will risk my current fish.

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  • catx
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    You can try a couple more pictus, but watch for any aggression to new comers, which there is likely to be, from your oscar. Pictus's barbels are easily nipped.

    Think of your Oscar, especially as he's mature, as a hormonal teenager with a very bad attitude that doesn't like anyone disrespectin' or going in their room. If your oscar could march out the tank, slam a few doors and tell u he hates u, he probably would!

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    This one is complicated to respond to for particular, yet i'm rather beneficial in my journey that the respond would be sure. Oscars are very smart fish, and now and lower back make some unusual buddies-- yet regularly, the case is that a solo Oscar turns into territorial, and something dropped into the tank is seen nutrition. once you're desperate to aim the babies, your ultimate wager may be to have the babies of their very own tank, and then as quickly as they have acclimated, upload the grown Oscar. subsequently, he's no longer in his very own territory, and subsequently won't have the ability to be territorial.. The babies are no longer likely to gang up on a much bigger fish, and subsequently a residing association may be made. the 2nd reason that it is your ultimate option is that it is not going that your contemporary tank is sufficiently enormous for 3 grown Oscars. I hear the excuse "i gets a much bigger tank while they outgrow their contemporary tank," way too a lot, and no one ever does. save your self the worry and placed funds right into a tank it quite is a minimum of seventy 5 to ninety gallons for 3 grown Oscars. in case you're no longer keen, i might in simple terms stick to the single. He needs a sturdy 30 gallons minimum to himself besides.

  • 1 decade ago

    i know something i did a bad mistake with mine i put an oscar and a red devil together well lets jus say the devil one so we took him back and got a golden severum man they fight here and there but nvr like the red and oscar but every body said not to mix them and i didnt listen so they are with me none died but u should get a

    red devil or maybe

    peakock bass they are so pretty

  • 1 decade ago

    the best thing is another oscar close to the same size.

    anything smaller will be considered food, and will less likely have a territorial fight on your hands

    Source(s): owner of 4 oscars
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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Arowana. it goes along with oscar's. they also eat the same meal..which is guppies.

  • 1 decade ago

    -another oscar

    -red devil (if you get a fierce one, your oscar may lose the fight so be careful)

    -any big or bigger fish.

    Source(s): aquariums as a kid
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