How to bring out colors in oscar fish?

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maverickm4

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Hello. I was wondering if there are any Oscar owners or anyone that has any helpful tips to bringing out the best dark colors on my Oscar fish? I want their blacks darker. Their orange and red is pretty bright though. Let me know if you want pics of tank setup and fish :) Thanks. I want people to see my fish and be. . . . . like ::WHOA:

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To bring out the best colors, feed a quality, varied diet and keep the water clean. To bring out darker colors, use a black background and or dark substrate.
 
The two most important things are high quality food and water.

Water quality is pretty simple. Do lots of water changes. A big water change each week is all that is usually needed. The nitrate concentration should not get above 20ppm before a water change.

High quality food is usually more debated. I only feed and recommend New Life Spectrum. It is hands down the best stuff out there. The colors will be unbelievable. It is also the best diet to help prevent Head and Lateral Line Erosion (sometimes lumped together with hole in the head). Oscars are very prone to HLLE and high quality food and water together should prevent it. A complete and balanced diet is the goal. This can be achieved with NLS exclusively, variety is not a nutrient.
 
Thanks for all the tips guys. What about lighting? My dad just bought bulbs from home depot when he got me the tank and a light thing haha. But it has two Phillips 700 series 32 watt bulbs in it. And I read somewhere too much light can bleach their colors is that true?
 
I haven't found too much light to bleach out the colors of anything. Light backgrounds and substrates can though.
 
Oh that might be my problem cause I have this light tans and browns gravel look going on in my tank? So my Oscars colors blend in to their environment?
 
You should be fine, it is very light substrates like white or all light tank that are more likely to cause a difference. I think the background an have a bigger effect.
 
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