Growing Monster Oscars | Monster Fish Keeping 101 | How to Care for Oscar Cichlids

[Aqua Nut]

Today we discuss how to grow huge, monster Oscars. They are a South American Cichlid that is often abused. We will give you guidance, tips and advice from knowledgeable dedicated Oscar cichlid keepers on how to have your Oscar thrive. We go over appropriate and minimum tank size for an Oscar, Oscar tank mates, Oscar feeding, diet and nutrition, as well as other helpful advice. Learn how to prevent your Oscar from getting HITH Hole in the head disease and more. Special thanks to our friend Dave for the gorgeous footage of his beautiful Oscars

 

[tlindsey]

Today we discuss how to grow huge, monster Oscars. They are a South American Cichlid that is often abused. We will give you guidance, tips and advice from knowledgeable dedicated Oscar cichlid keepers on how to have your Oscar thrive. We go over appropriate and minimum tank size for an Oscar, Oscar tank mates, Oscar feeding, diet and nutrition, as well as other helpful advice. Learn how to prevent your Oscar from getting HITH Hole in the head disease and more. Special thanks to our friend Dave for the gorgeous footage of his beautiful Oscars

Great vid ! Thanks for sharing pops stresses everything that was stated in the video, hopefully the message gets across to those who just want to run out and get a Oscar.

 

[pops]

we can only hope. ultimately until the vendor stresses what this fish needs to keep it properly before selling it always gong to be folks getting one and finding themselves over there head in 4 or 5 months.

 

[Kayzee]

I made some rooking mistakes with Oscars when i was a little kid, I knew a guy that freaking dumped 2 of them in our local man made lake that is pretty cold and they survived for a while! Some messed up stuff done to these guys because of the people who buy them for 5.99 at Petco and just want to feed them goldfish and guppies.

 

[tlindsey]

I made some rooking mistakes with Oscars when i was a little kid, I knew a guy that freaking dumped 2 of them in our local man made lake that is pretty cold and they survived for a while! Some messed up stuff done to these guys because of the people who buy them for 5.99 at Petco and just want to feed them goldfish and guppies.

Its probably plenty of people who has abused Oscars because of listening to a lfs who only cares about sales or people not taking time to do research.

 

[pops]

allot of fish die from pathetic care, I know of no fish that can look so pathetic as a Oscar in such care, walking dead has nothing on advanced HITH.

 

[Aqua Nut]

we can only hope. ultimately until the vendor stresses what this fish needs to keep it properly before selling it always gong to be folks getting one and finding themselves over there head in 4 or 5 months.

Exactly right on that one, thanks for watching bud

 

[Aqua Nut]

I made some rooking mistakes with Oscars when i was a little kid, I knew a guy that freaking dumped 2 of them in our local man made lake that is pretty cold and they survived for a while! Some messed up stuff done to these guys because of the people who buy them for 5.99 at Petco and just want to feed them goldfish and guppies.

Really they must have had fun in there for a while, I wonder how many fish they attacked or the real damage they caused to the ecosystem. we come across those people who feed live fish quite often, definitely not recommended to feed these guys goldfish and most of them don't know any better.

 

[philipraposo1982]

The vendor has nothing to do with it. It's time for humans to be responsible. Do the research!! It's never been optional and I absolutely despise anyone who takes in any animal in to their care without understanding what's involved.

Now days we have the internet and it's even more of a reason why we need to come down hard on those who didn't take 1 min to do a google search and literally click on any one of the links on the first page and read for a few more minutes to find majority of the basic info they need to get started.

Do I expect so.eone to have fully mastered everything there is to know about a species before purchase? No of course not. But at least find out how long they live, size, minimum tank size, temp req, food, tank mates. All of this can be found in less that 5 min online.

There is no excuses, not one valid excuse. The whole let's blame the pet stores is bullshit.t hats like blaming your school's for not raising your child right.

Don't get my started on LFS...

 

[Aqua Nut]

The vendor has nothing to do with it. It's time for humans to be responsible. Do the research!! It's never been optional and I absolutely despise anyone who takes in any animal in to their care without understanding what's involved.

Now days we have the internet and it's even more of a reason why we need to come down hard on those who didn't take 1 min to do a google search and literally click on any one of the links on the first page and read for a few more minutes to find majority of the basic info they need to get started.

Do I expect so.eone to have fully mastered everything there is to know about a species before purchase? No of course not. But at least find out how long they live, size, minimum tank size, temp req, food, tank mates. All of this can be found in less that 5 min online.

There is no excuses, not one valid excuse. The whole let's blame the pet stores is bullshit.t hats like blaming your school's for not raising your child right.

Don't get my started on LFS...

You definitely make some valid points there Phillip not going to deny that. The internet is filled with information that only takes a few seconds to find but i think a lot of it comes down to laziness or just not giving a crap. Everything is fine till they see a half eaten fish or one that is half dead floating in the tank. We run some pretty big groups on facebook and its an all too familiar sight i'm afraid. We always promote research before any decision when it comes to anything aquarium related. Some listen some know it all but we know how that works out. Research is key, thanks for commenting.