Types and kinds of Oscars
Morphs of Astronotus ocellatus
First lets get rid of the fake types! ANY current oscar on the market with "berry" in the name is just dyed! Dyed fish do NOT stay that color and are a waste of money! Even more important dyeing fish is cruel - DO NOT BUY these fish! The less that are sold the less that are created and sold to unsespecting people!
Now on to the real/true color morphs and species of Atronotus aka Oscars.
Normal Oscars - Black oscar (aka common or wild type)
Tiger Oscars
Red tiger
Red
Albino
Albino Red Oscars (can be pink,red or orange) aka bloody albinos
Albino Pink Oscars (line bred albino reds)
*Sunshine Albino
Patternless Green
Gold
Half Black ( developed by Herb Fogel,rarely heard of and I think gone from the hobby)
Purple (I had a picture linked but the hosting site asked the link be removed due to overwelming emails)- (rarely heard of and I think "true purples" are gone from the hobby)
Blue aka Slate an offshoot of the purples
Pied aka Piebald (I've only heard of a few wild collected specimens that were sold for high amounts of money)
White,high white,ghost (and other names have been used) - some appear to be something different but they ALL grow into, just reduced pattern albinos
*Lemon - belived to be line bred gold albinos - they keep the yellow coloring and are not dyed. *(this was sent to me some time ago with no author info)*
From time to time theres also a few new cool new names that suddenly pop up for oscar but 99% of these are just sales pitches or marketing attempts for oscars that have been around under a different name for a long time.
OTHER SPECIES:
Along with the common oscar - Astronotus ocellatus there are reportedly two?, possiably more other species includeing
Astronotus orbiculatus or Astronotus obicullaris (controversial) AKA striped oscar
Astronotus crassipinnis AKA striped Oscar or black oscar which are not often bred but are occasionally avaliable as medium sized imported fish.
and Astronotus "sp. venezula"
This page is still in the process of being updated and it will continue to be updated to match new additions to my collection.
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