What kind of oscar do i have?

Question

i brought him from a pet shop that was trying to feed him to a much large fish but was fighting back. he dose not have much color on him, he is a pale pink with grey/black spots on his gills and one on his tail. on all his fins he has small black spots. i have looked on the net for some answers but it only show ur typical tiger, albino and the more common ones. he is still a baby and is only about 1 to 2 inches. he is very lively and gets a long great with my baby blue acara. i have never owned an oscar before and would like to know how often do i have to feed him. he is eating blood worms, pellets and some of the flakes i put in for the acara but is always coming to the top of the tank looking for more food. the pet shop said he had been in their tanks now for 4 months and no-one wanted him so they were going to kill him by feeding him to the other fish. thank you for any help u can give me

Answer 1

You have an oscar for best suporting male in a western drama.

Answer 2

Hi,

I don't think that you have an oscar, or if so then its an extremely rare species can yo add some pictures, so we can see it.

Answer 3

It is probably a "nearly albino" oscar. In a group of fry, all sorts of things can turn up with different colours.

One word of warning. This will be a big fish and the Blue Acara will be little more than a "starter" at a meal. Oscars are great fun but they will eat anything they can get in their mouths and will kill themselves trying to eat things that are too big. I have seen one swim around for hours with the tail of another fish sticking out of its mouth.

Have a look at www.youtube.com under the topic of feeding oscars. nasty stuff but that is what they are like. The have bad table manners but they are great fun and will eat cat food from a spoon and play with ping pong balls etc. They know their owner and will even roll over to be tickled but they are bad news for smaller tankmates

Answer 4

Doesn't really answer your question, but an Oscar would have been sold to the pet shop aged around 3 months, if they have had it 4 months it should be at least 7".

Not sure your fish is an Oscar, they are a fish that likes to cruise around in go slow mode and they are only active from seeing their food to eating it.

Obviously what you have is a cichlid, but I wouldn't be too sure the pet shop was telling the truth. Could possibly be a hybrid of no value that they wanted to unload and it's a bad pet shop that uses feeder fish when there are customers in the shop; that does get complaints.

Answer 5

Lemon oscar? No? .. Maybe not.

Hey, maybe its just called "Pink Oscar" Look it up? lol

Its good that you saved the oscar from being eaten :)

they're good fish.. I want one.. but I cant afford to keep one because of their big tank needs..