Don't Buy An Oscar Fish Unless You Watch This First! 10 Things You Should Know About Oscar Fish! 

my Oscar spits water at my husband every time he opens the tank. Bites him if he goes any further. He rubs up against me and lets me do whatever I need to do. His name is killer and he's 15 inches long and 11 years old. We measured him during our last water change.

One thing you should know about oscars is they are drama queen/king. They will sometimes act as if they are ill or sometimes dead.

My first Oscar when i was in highschool... it liked wait for me everytime i go home... and i cried when it died...

My Oscar hates my wife cat. The cat jumped up on tank, lifted the feeding lid and the Oscar jumped up and bit the cat on his nose.

One thing not mentioned about feeding Oscars feeder goldfish is that if the oscar decides not to eat it you could wind up with a fish that's going to grow even bigger than the oscar

This made me miss mine. He was 4.5years old when he died. He was a very peaceful Oscar, I could put my hand in the tank and feed him but cleaning his tank was a pain, he would get the shits and play dead when I moved his things ha

8:37 when the guy said hunting other fish the fish in the background spit out what he ate before

The Oscar I had use to roll its eyes at me when I fed it cichlid pellets

Had a oscar when I was younger which liked to drag the floating piece of driftwood I had in the aquarium around for fun. They are very smart fish.

My first fish was an Oscar and he’s still with me, he’s gone through a lot of abuse but it’s helped me Become a much better hobbyists it’s given me a whole arsenal of medications and foods. It truly is the best experience I’ve had in the hobby, but you really need to make sure you know what you are doing and be ready for a pet that typically lives longer than a dog lol

In my experience, most cichlids respond to their people, and recognize who feeds them. My Callichithys catfish were like that, too.

Me: I used to have an oscar Serious fish guy: Be honest with me bro did you name him oscar? Me:...yeah Serious fish guy: *shakes head in disappointment*

I’ve always felt that ocsars were some of the most mistreated fish just like plecos! They’re so cool but nobody takes the time to research them. Great video as always!

I came home one day from a walk and my Oscar was on the living room floor. He busted a while out of his tank by head butting it. I don’t know how long he was on the floor but I put him back in the tank he was dead. I didn’t want to believe he was dead I left him in there for about an hour and he came back to life. That was a while ago he lived to 10 years old but he’s gone now

Had my first Oscar for a long time. Was told they usually live around 5 years...well, 10 years later, he finally pass away. Best pet ever, very easy to maintain and care for.

I have kept fish for years but am still a noob with a lot of things. So looking to change a few things I had some questions, and have found your channel. In 2 days I have watched about 5or 6 of your clips(old ones) and have answered every question( African cichlids, substrate,Oscars, cycling etc, etc.) heaps of stuff I THOUGHT I knew and got a heap of different ideas I never would have had! Love this channel. Massive Help even over in Australia 🇦🇺

Hey great video! I agree 100%. Actually I have often thought some species of fish we keep should not be available in less than 50% of their natural size. Simply because they are so cute at two or three inches that people buy them for the wrong reason. My first exposure to Cichlids was Tiger Oscars. A fellow I met was starting an aquarium shop back in the late 70's. He had a 280 gallon tank and a few Oscars who were so crazy! I had never seen anything like them. Thank you for making this, I hope everyone who wants Oscars will see this. I would really like to see a few more species, but I know it is a lot of work to put them together. One other thing in this crazy long winded comment. Many folks do not understand that nature is not mean, it just is. You are right we are mean but the cure for that is education, thanks again.

I love Oscars. Such big fish with big personalities. I know I can never keep them simply because I don't have a tank big enough. Maybe someday when I get that 225 I've always wanted....hinted like crazy and still didn't get that 225 under the Christmas tree. Thanks for posting!

undoubtedly one of the best and well organized oscar related informative video on youtube. please keep making these type videos for other fish also. (y)

Thank you for the video! There’s an Oscar at my local animal shelter, and I immediately fell in love with him. I’ve been fish keeping for a few months now and have a 30 gallon aquarium and I really want to adopt this Oscar and I was sure you would have a video on Oscars since you guys love them so much. I think I’ll get 100 gallon for him that a good size.

Another awesome video! I have really enjoyed, and look forward to watching your 10 things videos on sundays. I'm so glad you decided to do this series. Plus.... I really like that you started incorporating special guests. Sunday mornings are now my coffee and Kgtropical mornings ❤ keep up the great work!

Great information on Oscar fish. Thanks for sharing. My favorite fish in the world are 2" juvenile Oscars, unfortunately they don't stay that size or that energetic for long. Cheers.

Great video, I love the 10 things series. Please keep it up!! I have had oscars in the past but currently do not have any. I may go and by a pair this week for my 125 cichlid tank. Oh, and I love the movie snips, "that's what she said". Classic.

Thank you for all your info! I love watching you and Lisa. Imma newbie and I'm obsessed!

Knocked it out of the park again. I hope y’all are having as much fun producing these videos as I am watching Till the next one!!

My big ol girl shares a 220 with an RT shark and a gold spot Pleco,, what a life !! What a great educational video!

You channel is awsome I love how you have other fish hobbies involved. You should Bring more fish keepers on your show

I used to have a 12 inch red oscar. I threw in some colored stones into his tank for decorations and the next morning I found them in a pile at one end of the tank. I spread them out again only to watch him pile them back up in the same spot. I let him have his pile after that. Also mine enjoyed swimming to the top and let me pet him. Awesome fish.

Oscars rock we've had many I love watching our 2 beasts (Jr.-tiger & Ably-Albino Tiger) tear into their feeder fish we feed ours a variety of food but they show you very obviously they prefer their feeders...just like she said when our Oscars see us get our net ready to dip out some feeders for them they LITTERLY start wagging their tails & I swear ours even smile....some may argue but I swear I can see ours when they smile... We own 2 tanks of fish, we have a miniature yorkie & a chinchilla & most of the time I'll tell you that my Oscars are my favorite.... just on the days when they're throwing a temper tantrum would I say my yorkie or chinchilla is my favorite lol... very informative video for new fish owners at least... we've been at it for several yrs though so just a fun watch for us! Thanks either way though!

I have 2 oscars in my tank now and i absolutely love them. I bought them for my tank along with 2 other gouramis and as of now, theyre doing fine. the oscars are probably 3-4 times the size of the gouramis, but they seem to coexist pretty well! I probably just got lucky haha.

so excited because I went to a local small fish store that I haven't been to since I would probably a kid and I've been looking for an Oscarand when I asked the lady she took me right over to the Oscar tank and what do you knowthey had several lemons and it's a good thing I watch this video before because I was like woah I just got lucky so now you could say I'm super stoked with my new member of the family! Thanks you guys for everything you do love your videos

"most fish keepers will have 20-29gallon tank" Me: (looks at my 10 gallon tank) Seems legit

Hi John, Lisa, and Zenzo, I really enjoyed this video. I found it very interesting. I never knew there was such a sub species as a Lemon Oscar. Thanks very much for sharing 👍.

"Gentle giants." My mom was big into the fish hobby and she had a 75 gallon long aquarium with two MONSTER 11 inch oscars and a 14 inch long common pleco. All that you said is so true. She had one large focal point decorative rock and a few fake plants that the fish would throw about like they were playing with a beach ball lol. And one of them was so aggressive and territorial that if I got close enough to the glass he would get momentum and charge mouth open toward my face. Mom used to get a laugh out of watching this fish attack her daughter lol. I definitely inherited her love of fish keeping. I have 4 large comet goldfish and two large butterfly koi in an outdoor pond, a 29 gallon guppy/molly tank, a pea puffer nano setup, a 10 gallon betta sorority tank, and a five gallon blackwater betta tank. My next project is setting up a tank for axolotls and maybe I might jump back into keeping cichlids once I have the space.

Today I was in petco and came across one baby lemon Oscar and one baby tiger Oscar and decided to buy them. I love them soooooo much. I know a lot about them I just wanted to watch this for extra research. I have them in a 75 now. Ever since this video I have am going to be looking for some pool ponds for them so that they love the best life that they can under my care

Just started watching your videos. I must say your stuff makes the most sense out of a lit of others on RU-vid. About Oscar's love em, grew up raising Oscar's for 15 yrs. Lost my tank with a major 4 day power outage in our city. Your video wants me to raise them again!!!

I’ve had Oscars in the past and they have been bullied by other cichlids. They are definitely gentle giants. I had a pair of mating angelfish that bullied the Oscar into the corner of the tank I’ve had convicts they kept the Oscar at the other end of the tank away from them and they were less than a quarter of the size.

You have no idea how happy this vid made me feel. I have mine and he’s a beaut

Love Oscars! My parents bought Ike and Mike when the fish were about the size of a thumbnail. Ike and Mike grew to 12 inches and lived 15 years! Daily feedings were fish pellets, except Fridays....feeder fish Friday. :) My dad created a toy, a ping pong ball, a sinker, some fishing line, and silicone,..the fish LOVED batting that thing from one end of the aquarium to the other.

Your videos are so fun and informative!! I’m hooked no pun intended!

a year ago i bought a 40 gallon tall and threw a baby tiger oscar in it. he looked so tiny my tank seemed empty for a couple months. moral of the story. my oscar was 8 inches in only 5 months. thanks to the folks at my local petsmart that told me i could keep 3 full grown oscars in that 40 gallon i figured my one oscar could live his entire life in it. i bought a 75 2 months later and already want a 125

omg this is the most hilarious thing with my Oscar, so when i’m cleaning my fish tank (i have 2 Oscar fish) my biggest one huddles up and cuddles the smallest Oscar,their name is bonnie and Clyde. if this just me or is it just cute!!

2:44 my betta have a big personality like what you are saying it look she get so happy when I feed her or walk by her

Hey sir, I have been keeping fish for a while, but mostly smaller stuff. I decided it was time for a larger aquarium for myself, finally. So I upgraded to a modest 75 gallon. I'm running 2 Aqueon quiet flow 75s and a 250gph powerhead near the surface just for agitation and current. I've got a fairly open setup, one robust piece of decoration and a small corner one where the current seems to clear out my sand. I'm currently housing 1 oscar, 1 long tailed/fan tailed/really odd male convict cichlid, 1 striped raphael cat, 1 red tail shark (not cat), a bristle nose pleco, 3 pictus cats, and 3 tiger barbs, was 5..but they often "go missing". 1, am I over stocked with these guys at an adult size as they are growing fast, and 2, I got the 75 as I thought that was large enough for the oscar, now I'm hearing 90-100 gallons min. Did I make an error? Thanks in advance!

I have a 16 inch Oscar in my 300 gallon .

I have a 9 year old Oscar that is 10 inches in a 35 gallon tank. I told my dad to sell him to someone who loves fish and can take of him in a much bigger tank but my dad won’t listen to me.

I have oscars and blood parrot in my aquarium with 2 sharks, mostly the parrots dominates others but do not harm or chase each other but actually those parrots try to resolve quarells that occurs between the oscars. I have seen the parrots rearranging the decors very often, they also try to dig through the substrate.

Hey guys great video, I’ve only just started my journey with owning a aquarium, I have convict cichlids at the moment which were given to me for free as well as a 500 gallon tank. I was wondering if I could put 2 oscars, a barramundi (sea bass) and a ghost knife together. Thanks a lot

Loved your video, and subscribed. Just a little thing: if you can, please express the measure units in centimetres/litres/celsius too, for us non americans. Would be nice!

I would like to disagree with a couple of points. 1. Oscars can get aggressive, it usually happens in phases. 2. Keep them in large 125G or more tanks, the more space you provide the better. 3. Keep them in even numbers or pairs, if you keep Odd numbers they do tend to single out on weaker ones. They will beat up the weak ones till they can stand their own or till they hurt them real bad. 4. Oscars are Piscivores, contrary to what's being said in the video, they do enjoy hunting smaller fish like Guppies. I do not recommend that you feed them Guppies since sometimes feeder fish will carry pathogens unless they have been quarantined first. Oscars that feed on other fish do grow faster than the ones that are fed on pellets. They have a very strong prey drive and will chase and eat other smaller fish till they stuff themselves. That being said, its a cruel practice and also if an individual fish eats more than the others it grows faster and becomes more dominant. Ive noticed that oscars fed on feeder fish do tend to be more aggressive than ones that are exclusively fed on pellets and other feed. 5. Oscars enjoy high concentrations of fish protein in their diets. They also eat shrimp, muscles, mealworms, crickets and earthworms with gusto. Feeding your oscar live feed occasionally is good idea, live feed contains all the natural goodness of minerals and other missing constituents that may be absent in your pellet feeds. 6. I've owned many pairs of Oscars over the years and found that their personalities vary. Some Oscars are mellow fellows while others are just mean and will beat the snot out of their tankmates just because they can, so beware. 7. doesn't matter what you feed and how good you feed, Oscars like to fight, they fight when they are stressed, they fight for territory, they fight for mates, and they fight just because it feels good, it comes in phases. 8. Oscars are some of the hardiest fish that can survive ich, fungus, velvet and whole many other nasties. That being said, please do not neglect your fish, just because they are not as demanding as a discus. 9. You can never over filter an Oscar tank. Are they worth the time? Yes, yes and yes... If you are new to South American cichlids and have a large enough tank, you definitely should get your hands on a pair or two.

Loved it!! One of My bucket list wet friends! Those Lemon Oscar's are striking!🤗

Quickly realized when I had Oscars years ago...the 50g tank we had them in wasn't sufficient, and quickly upgraded to a 120g one. They're super fun fish to watch and keep, but I agree...don't get into them without fully knowing how big they get, and how big of an appetite they have!

My albino red (ruby) would encourage me to pet him/her. The fish would go up to the surface and basically lay on its side and let me touch him . I had 4 in my 125 at one point. Kept them for over a decade. I will always have a certain feeling about them as they were the first big cichlids I ever kept

I have 6 oscars and they’re currently in a massive tank with a green terror, Bala shark, a turtle, lobster, 2 arowanas, tinfoil barb and a pleck. I also have an peacock Malawi in there and they’re fine with fish that grow very large or around their size and haven’t attacked each other.

This man I love he is right to the point, I wish there was a way I can talk or text him with other questions

Great vid! I had a Oscar over 8 years, who was gentle giant. It did not eat plants or other fishes. Not smaller nor anything else. It wanted to eat from my hand only. I made the food myself. I miss it a lot :-( I have Pacu in 442 gallon tank and I dream to have some Oscars there...

Loving the guest spots😎 Another great "10 things" video 💕👍

Great video 👍 Would you do a flowerhorn one please? 😁

I totally agree with the gentle giant description. My 10 inch Oscar just cruises the tank bothering nothing. I've thought of trying my H Carpintis male as a tank mate but I worry for the much larger Oscar. They are not mean fish or any I've kept haven't been.

Nice informational video! Also fun to watch. For the biggest part i agree with everything that has been said. I didnt like the big tank with all the mixed cichlids though. Oscars are from South America, keep em with fish from that same region. It is not because they can handle various waterparameters, that it is also the best for them. For me Central American cichlids and African Lake cichlids shouldnt go in the same tank. And 100% agree! If u dont have a big enough tank, dont keep oscars. Greetings from Belgium

"do plenty of research before getting an oscar" well duh kinda why im watching the video

Love Oscars. Love their personality. Had them for years. Great video keep em coming

Thank you for the informative video 😊 hope you all are well.

Like your videos, subbed finally. I want oscars and didn’t impulse buy at my local fish store and need more info. So naturally I came here. Then I was like I’ve seen and liked a lot of videos I should just sub. Great content, thanks for the enlightenment !

Thank you for these informations you shared i also have 2 oscar

My oscar loves earthworms and I feed mine fruit (He likes grapes and mango) once a week as amazonian fish need Vit C (the lack of which, I believe, is why it is amazonian fish that are so susceptible to hole in the head) ..I keep mine with a severum and 5 silver dollars. Tank is 180 gallon. I found that chocolate cichlids also make good tank mates.

I loved my Oscars. They were a joy. We used to love watching them redecorate their tank. We only had rocks and they were forever moving them around their 125. I miss them so much.

Adopting a 10 inch long fin this week for my 125G had to come watch to make sure on food am set there too! He will have to stick out for a 30g quarantine tank for a few weeks first. Oddly his tank mates are arowana so glad I heard you say it could be done. But so did my husband who was about to go buy another 125g. 🤣 so we will see if he needs his own tank or if he is chill an vice versa first.

they are very frendly when they see their food in my hand

I have a albino red Oscar it always watches me walk around the house lol

Awesome video and very informational I just got 4 oscars for my 200 gallon tank. Is that to many fish for the tank size?

Hey Morning, Firstly thankyou for the useful tips you share.. Really helps.. I have a question, i recently purchased my first Oscar, its active, dosent just rest on the bottom. but dosent eat any food except live fish.. He loves to chase and eat but not when i feed with anything else. Can you suggest

I owned an albino lemon oscar and it was very rare. I was a beginner and I kept it from when it was a baby in a 50 gallon tank. It seemed to get along just fine in that tank for years but I got lazy and started only feeding it feeder guppies then it got hole in the head and stopped getting excited to see me

Awesome info! Love the personality of oscars!👍

I love watching your videos!! So much good info!! 👍👍

I love your videos. I got my first tanks in '69 when I was a wee young lad, and then had a ten year stint of being fishless. My reintroduction fish were Oscars. And sadly, in 1982 there was nobody to let me know how to keep these guys happy and healthy. It's great to see information like this shared. Even for me, who's been an active hobbyist (and breeder) since the 80's that are great refreshers, and help to motivate me to keep up with the maintenance. Thanks.

Yeah.i got my first oscar today. I love Oscar's

I raised 3 oscars. Jupiter Io and Ganymede. I had those fish for almost ten years. They were huge before they passed. They were smart and somewhat trained. They ate one at a time. Biggest to smallest and had to do something before they ate. They were huge. Jupiter was as wide as a football. So big it had to be hand cleaned. Watching this on my feed has inspired me to raise another again. I still have the three hundred gallon inch thick tank. It was hard when they passed and fed them to the community cats and refused to take on another fish. Thanks for this video. I miss my fish.

I have 2 oscars ( as well as 5 other fish tanks of various sizes) in my 75 gallon. They have to be my favorites as far as overall personalities. And boy does my albino have an attitude. When she's in a mood my other girl who's a lot more mellow(and bigger) just stays on the opposite side of the tank. Both were bought as babies and my abino lived with my goldfish till she was almost 5 inches long. My tank has 150 gallons of filtration on it.

I'm a beginner .....thank you for this video ❣️

I'm actually looking into Oscar fish because I was at my LFS and they had an oscar tank. So I went to check them out and there was a STUNNING Oscar swimming around with a peice of food in its mouth teasing the other fish lmfao Beautiful AND funny? I was sold. I'm going to learn everything about them 😉👌

my goldfish are like this - they know me, come up to me, follow me around thr room (going from one end of the tank to the other)

Was my very favourite fish. Used to get so happy when I came back from school and would swim to the top of the tank for a wee kiss from me lol

Great information, I didn’t know there was a lemon Oscar. I saw a Geophagus in the tank what species is it. Thank again guys.

In the right sized tank Oscars are awesome!

This was awesome! Love your new series!!

I have a 100 gallon tank it's got one Oscar in it and hes freaking huge! A lot larger than 16 inches, of course I have a couple of bottom feeders! But I also clean the tank once a week, feed him a dry food every day expect for fridays and then I give him live feeders ( good fish) and he just loses his mind!! I've had him for 4 years now!! His name is timmy and hes part of the family!! And Oscar's are pretty smart for fish!! When he sees somebody he doesn't know he'll just sit there and stare at them (kinda freaks people out)

If I can get and have the space for a 200 gallon tank minimum I would definitely get another Oscar. Anything smaller and I would not get another Oscar. I love my Oscar, I did the best I could for it. It taught me a lesson that I’ve never forgotten, and made me a better and aquarium Enthusiast sending me to join an aquarium club to learn everything I can about tropical fish. What they don’t tell you on the pet shops, would you are telling people now. And you are telling them the truth and you are very honest about it . PS, mine was full-grown. Are used to have a picture of it with a tape measure across a 10 gallon tank I put it in for the picture. It fills the tank. There is no way possible I could’ve kept them in that tank. I must’ve been feeding him right because he grew in the first year by the third year I was getting afraid he would get even bigger.

I saw an Oscar fish at the pet store...such personality

My first fish were Oscars,with snakeheads,this was in the 90's when you can still buy snakeheads,it was a beautiful combo,they were both small when I put them in,and got big together,the fought on occasion, but mostly got along,and honestly,my snakeheads could have easily killed those oscars when they got big,but they never went there,I miss snakeheads a lot...

I had two in a 50 gallon tank many years ago. Loved them. I feed them nightcrawlers, spinach, baby frogs and of course feeder fish

Oscars are alot of fun i had two in a 4x2x2 feet tank that grow to 28 - 30cm 1.8kg female 2.1kg male and lived 8yrs the only fish doc in Melbourne was very impressed with the health of my Oscars and how they where trained to be handled by hand. feed on snails, worms, yabbies (small crays) and small feeder fish

Gonna go play with and feed my Oscar(Rascal) right now.

4:40 whats the other big fish with the oscars and what’s their temperament like

Hermoso video, gracias por las recomendaciones, voy a divulgar está información ❤

Come down to south Florida - they are in all the canals down here .......you have to peel off skin properly or filet them good as the skin is very oily when fried.

Back in the 80s my dad fed his oscars dog food

I luv Oscars cus they have my name and there so pretty, especially when they're big.

I enjoyed this! How about a specie only video? Like Nimbochromis Fuscotaeniatus...

Great informative video. What kind of fish was that all black one at time stamp 10:55ish.