are they common?

[cocoa_pleco]

I went to a fish store thats far away. they always have exotic fish and plecos, like zebra plecos for 50$, and they have tons of discus. one of the coolest fish was a couple of huge blue arowanas for 200 regular 400


anyway, i saw the weirdest thing- veiltail oscars. they had the hugest and longest tails ive ever seen. is this a common strain in oscars now?

[Fishguy2727]

Not really, but if you keep an eye out for them or have a good LFS you can find them.

[crackatinny]

The oscar my nephew lost a couple of months ago was a veiltail, he was a nice looking fish.

[cocoa_pleco]

and their price was cheap, 10$ for a medium one.

DAM, i want that blue arowana. theyre so pretty

[Rue]

I dunno...don't like them - think the normal tiger oscars look the nicest...

If you're getting the arowana...get a 300g long tank...I feel so sorry for them stuffed in small tanks they can't move in...

[Fishguy2727]

I also prefer the normal finned oscars.

Arowanas are nice, especially the blues. Unfortunately it is one of those fish that most cannot properly care for due to their size.

[cocoa_pleco]

there were 2 blue fin arowanas and 1 sliver, each had their own 25g. pretty cramped

[troy]

What size?

[cocoa_pleco]

fullgrown, and they had good length to them. probably 12"-15"

[crackatinny]

fullgrown, and they had good length to them. probably 12"-15"

I thought they grew to about 2ft?

[cocoa_pleco]

probably was that big. i was busy looking at other fish. another cool thing was a almost fullgrown clown knife in a 75g. pure MONSTER.