Bumblebee Oscar updates
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He is being kind of finicky and just eating Omega One Veggie Rounds at the moment.
Thank you, I was happy to have found him since these fish tend to only be available in waves. You see them for a bit and then years of not being available.
Ive always had a soft spot for Oscars but the bumblebee has been a favorite.
That’s funny to me. That is the one thing my Chocolate cichlid will eat when he gets finicky.
Beautiful fish.
While genetics will always play a significant role in longevity, I have been feeding what many would consider light, for decades now. Add to that random days of intermittent fasting, and all other factors (water changes, diet, overall stress levels etc) being equal I think that slow & steady will always prove to win the race. Power feeding for large gains in growth has been highly overrated on this site as well as others, typically by those that could not care one wit about the longevity of their fish.
Good luck with this gem.
While genetics will always play a significant role in longevity, I have been feeding what many would consider light, for decades now. Add to that random days of intermittent fasting, and all other factors (water changes, diet, overall stress levels etc) being equal I think that slow & steady will always prove to win the race. Power feeding for large gains in growth has been highly overrated on this site as well as others, typically by those that could not care one wit about the longevity of their fish.
Good luck with this gem.
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Im the worst at guessing fish size, I always undersize my guess. So Im thinking he is 11" which likely means 12", lol
Can anyone who has bought Crassipinnis recently tell me what you paid (like at Westport, LFS, etc.)... I had them back in 2014/15 from Wetspot and then I got out of the hobby the last 5 years or so. But I'm setting up a tank and want to get them again. My LFS has some (I think) but they seem crazy expensive to me. Now I have noticed that fish prices in general are way more than 5 years ago because of inflation but these are five times the price I paid for mine. Granted their a little bigger, but I'm trying to decide whether I should get one locally or wait an order from Wetspot so I can get a group. If Wetspot is significantly cheaper even with shipping a group would end up being cheaper from them.
These are the Oscars I think are Crassipinnis at my LFS. They are being sold as "Wild Caught Jade Eye Oscars". This LFS is usually pretty good with using scientific names, so I assume this is what they were sold as by the distributor and they are just using the same name. The only information I could get about the catch location was "Brazil"
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