Anyone else have an Oscar(fish) for a pet?
 

Just curious if anyone else out there has had the pleasure of having an Oscar as a pet. I've got two right now I've had since January. For being a fish they are pretty smart and have personality. They jump out of the water to grab worms, etc. out of your hand. Anyone else have one??

No oscars but I keep a 5G planted tank. As soon as I move I will be setting up my 29G. I also keep two snakes.

www.aquariacentral.com is a great site for information and help.

My dad used to have 3 Oscars. One had only one eye and his name was Popeye and the ther 2 were Olive Oyl and Oscar LOL. We had to give them away when we moved though. They were neat, we kept them in a 150+ gallon fish tank with drift wood and real plants.
Since then I have gotten a betta and going to get a new aquarium and get more fish since the apartment I am in doesnt allow dogs and I'm not too fond of cats.

LOVE them fishes!
 

HAHAH! NO OSCARS HERE, but I got a bunch of other fishes. Got a 30 gall. w/ a mix of Freshwater fish, then a 20 gall. with the smaller ones, a bowl w/ the babies that the middle sized ones had, and a 20 gallon tank w/ 3 red-ear slider turtles! They are cool. but i hate cleaning the turtle tank! Its a pita!
Need to do it tonight. I'll take a pic of my fish if you wanna see!!! heheh.....:)

No Oscars, but I've got a 45 gallon salt water tank. I have a porcupine puffer, a lion fish, a toad fish, a wolf eel and a powder blue tang. The cool thing is they all eat live goldfish for the majority of their diet, except for the tang. His mouth is too small, but he will eat the left over chunks of goldfish the puffer leaves from eating.

Cool!!!!
 

I love Salt Water fish! They are so neat! Great colors. I enjoy my fish, they are relaxing to have around. :D

I just have some tropical fish in a 10 gallon tank. I also have an American Pit Bull Terrier.

Phil.

i had 3 oscar's(alphabet, pineapple face, and forkboy,dont ask! LOL)
your right though they are very smart, they always knew when it was time to eat and time to clean the tank too(55 gal tanks suck!)

now i just have 2 snakes and thats all til i get my new tiny little poison frogs and mantellas.

hey I dont have one NOW but I used to have one that when he died weighed about 7 pounds he was FREEKING HUGE I will tell ya when thay get that big they stop eating regular food and mine would only eat redworms and minnows/goldfish...yes I do agree that they have a great personality...mine...a.k.a JAWS would always hide behind his big rock if anybody else was in the room but when I came in he would come to the top and jump aound and wait for a good old gold fish...I would say he was smarter than the dog I have now...but then again thats not sayin too much:rolleyes:...man I miss that fish...he even sent one of my friends to the ER I dared him to put his finger down in the water..*CHOMP*, 4 stitches haha man I could go on forever about those things but im not gonna say anymore

:( Missing Jaws:(
Adam

Yea I have two, They are some cool fish. Mine are out growing my fish tank.
It is my wife's fish tank and she used to have a lot of gold fish in it but I convinced her to let me get two oscars. Well when we got them they were smaller than the gold fish but would tear the fins off the gold fish until they got bigger then they ate all my wifes fish.
I had one really big one about 8 years before I got them so I knew what was going to happen.

BTW: one is a tiger oscar and one is an albino.

can anyone post a pic on a Oscar? i don't think i ever seen one. what kind of fish is it?

Hes green and lives in a trash can! hahha
 

they are big and fat and have big bulging eyes...am I right? :) Most i"ve seen are Black!

Wow, I didnt think many people would reply to this post. I've got an albino and tiger oscar myself. Yeah you are right about the bulging eyes topless. I've got a picture of my fish but will post it tomorrow if I get a chance. They are fun fish but definately need maintaining more than most. They really get excited during feeding time. The tiger oscar has jumped out of the tank twice when I have opened the top for feeding.
302blownpony...I cant beleive your buddy had to get sticthes. Thats crazy. I'll have to watch out for that when they get older. You can stick your finger in there now and the will bite it, but they arent big enough yet to do damage. Sorry to hear you dont have JAWS anymore. I'm sure its like losing a dog or a cat...sort of:D I'll miss mine when they go. Hopefully that won't be for awhile. They are pretty young yet. ..about five inches.

5 inches????? :0
 

5 INCHES????? :eek:I dont think I"ve seen one that big!!!!!! geez.....how big they get? The ones i've seen have only been about a couple of inches, maybe! :)

They can get up to about 14-16 inches if I'm not mistaken.