Can an oscar live in a 30 gallon its whole life?
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Can oscar live in a puddle? Or do they live in the largest freshwater system in the world?
Just because something is doable doesn't mean it should be done.
A 30 gallon is fine for juvenile oscars even multiple ones, but I'd recommend filtration that turns over the entirety of the aquarium at least 10 time an hour. Oscar leave lots of floating debris when they eat and the only way to battle it is with frequent water changes or good filtration. However, the moment the oscar gets about 4-5 inches long you'll notice very quickly how cramped it'll look in a 30 gal.
Also with oscars the footprint of the tank is more important than the actual volume. A low wide and long tank will ensure a long and happy life for any oscar if regular maintenance is done.
Just because something is doable doesn't mean it should be done.
A 30 gallon is fine for juvenile oscars even multiple ones, but I'd recommend filtration that turns over the entirety of the aquarium at least 10 time an hour. Oscar leave lots of floating debris when they eat and the only way to battle it is with frequent water changes or good filtration. However, the moment the oscar gets about 4-5 inches long you'll notice very quickly how cramped it'll look in a 30 gal.
Also with oscars the footprint of the tank is more important than the actual volume. A low wide and long tank will ensure a long and happy life for any oscar if regular maintenance is done.
16 inches? That is very unlikely. Average size for oscars is 10-14 inches.
30g aquarium is fine(for one). I am not kidding. The "intestine, deformity, and ect" is all
.If you keep a cichlid under their tank size limit they won't exactly be unhealthy but you can say they will be miserable.
When you feed plant based foods, your cichlids have a much healthier immune system. That is a +1. When Cichlids are fed meaty foods like hikari, krill, beefheart, bloodworms, and ect they have lots of protein hormones that can make them grow insanely fast.
I experimented two oscars a few years back. Both oscars were purchased at 1 inch. I fed one oscar nothing but algae discs, algae wafers, lettuce, peas, and ect.
The other oscar was fed bloodworms, brine shrimp, krill, hikari, tubifex worms, and ect.
These two were in different 40 gallon tanks. Their tanks were cleaned once a week.
In one month, the oscar who ate protein foods grew more than 2 inches! The oscar that ate vegetables grew 1 cm.
After a year passed, the protein oscar was 12 inches!! The oscar that ate vegetables was 5 inches.
Not to mention, the oscar who ate veggies is still alive in the zoo. The protein oscar died
.Their is a huge argument of tank sizes. It all depends on you.
An example.
Vegans= eat nothing but vegetables.
American(lol)= eat mostly meaty foods.
According to several articles on the internet, vegans can live up to 90 or so years.
While Meat eaters and omnivores live 60-75 years of age.
I don't want anyone to take this offensive but look how healthy and long lived asians are? Compared to an average american they eat much less MEAT. They live much longer too.
I hope this helps...
I'm surprised that this topic comes up as often as it does. An Oscar will not live as long in a 30 gallon as it would in an appropriately sized aquarium. A 30 gallon is far from being the minimum size for any fish capable of reaching 12"+. Some people consider keeping a fish alive for 1 or 2 years in a small aquarium as a long life span, others expect to get many more years out of their fish by providing proper space, diet, and maintenance. To the OP, search some of the old threads about the proper minimum aquarium size for Oscars. You will find a LOT of the same arguments that have and will probably appear in your thread. There will always be some that say a small tank is just fine. But the majority of us through personal experiences, education, and common sense will tell you that 30 gallons is far too small to house an adult Oscar or any other large fish for an extended amount of time. Advise your friend to plan on getting a larger tank or consider keeping smaller growing fish.
Full grown oscar will not fit in 30 yes. But people buy oscars at small sizes so they can raise their fish into the max size in that aquarium. An oscar will get no bigger than 6-8 inches in a 30 gallon.
Any fish can live long in a 30. Will they be happy? Probably not. It depends on you, and how you feel about the fish. Living in a small tank.
If you feed your oscar good plant based foods, expect him to live over 10 years.
Sorry, but this is not true. An oscar is not going to just stop growing at 6-8 inches, because its in a 30 gallon tank.
Unless the person is taking poor care of the oscar, in which it MIGHT stunt its growth... and to stunt an oscar's growth, you'd have to be one very poor fishkeeper... an oscar will continue to grow to its maximum size with proper water changes and diet regardless if you have it in a 10 gallon tank or a 300 gallon tank.
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