View Full Version : what fish are compatable with oscars?
angelcakes
08-09-2008, 06:57 AM
what fish are compatable with oscars........as some know i lost quite a large pleco the other day.....and know theres just 2 oscars and an up side down catfish in the tank......since the plecos gone the tank looks bare.....charlie and bubba are still quite small(charlie 6-7 inches bubba 5-6 inches) i want to know what fish could i put in with them or is it safer just to leave the tank how it is?:19:
angelcakes
08-09-2008, 07:09 AM
im not putting more oscars in........i have 2 thats enough:hmm3grin2orange:
dean30bb
08-09-2008, 07:46 AM
i have silver doller in with mine and there fine and look nice and shiny as well
angelcakes
08-09-2008, 07:47 AM
i have silver doller in with mine and there fine and look nice and shiny as well
dont they get big????
dean30bb
08-09-2008, 07:49 AM
not to big only about 15-20 cm round and arnt very agressive with the oscars ither
angelcakes
08-09-2008, 07:50 AM
not to big only about 15-20 cm round and arnt very agressive with the oscars ither
how many would you recomend?
MCHRKiller
08-09-2008, 07:50 AM
I keep a black shark, tinfoil barbs, and a sun cat with mine. I have kept silver dollars, bala sharks, lancer cats, and 4line pictus with them in the past :)
dean30bb
08-09-2008, 07:51 AM
depends on the tank i have 2 in mine but getting 2 more soon my tank is 5ft x 2ft
cocoa_pleco
08-09-2008, 05:00 PM
providing they are larger than the oscars mouth, this is all i know
-oscars
-silver dollars
-pacu
-walking catfish
-common plecos
-some stingrays
-arowana
-red devils
-jack dempseys
-sometimes flowerhorns
-bala sharks
-tinfoil barbs
angel how many gallons is that? cocoas got a good list..
Billythefish
08-09-2008, 05:14 PM
hay angelcakes if it was me i'd just get another pleco as you know oscars don't like much change and the pleco wouldn't bother them like your old one didn't ....... i still on the look out for a bn pleco as they don't get to big and are much better algae eaters , just my thoughts mate:11:
angelcakes
08-09-2008, 06:08 PM
providing they are larger than the oscars mouth, this is all i know
-oscars
-silver dollars
-pacu
-walking catfish
-common plecos
-some stingrays
-arowana
-red devils
-jack dempseys
-sometimes flowerhorns
-bala sharks
-tinfoil barbs
thanks cocoa and all.......the list above has got me thinking theres 2 that i like they are the jack dempseys or the flowerhorns but i know nothing about them:19:
cocoa_pleco
08-09-2008, 07:34 PM
thanks cocoa and all.......the list above has got me thinking theres 2 that i like they are the jack dempseys or the flowerhorns but i know nothing about them:19:
jack dempseys need at least a 55g, and flowerhorns need at least a 125g
cocoa_pleco
08-09-2008, 11:12 PM
got bored and though of more
-severums
-blood parrots
-leporinus
-clown loaches
-green terror
-texas cichlids
-jaguar cichlids
-ghost knife
-african knife
-clown knife
Nick89
08-10-2008, 02:31 AM
Cocoa made a good list, but i should add that all of these can and cant work. Cichlids are unpredictable, nothing written in stone. So id probably just keep the 2 oscars by themselfs.. The oscars probably already claimed the entire tank, so it might not work, more than likely.
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