IceOscar
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Hi, I recently found my old 30 gallon tank stuffed away in the basement so I figured I'd set it up since it's been awhile since I had fish. I bought some rocks, setup the old decorations, setup the filter (Penguin 160) and filled it up. I waited a couple days until I tested the PH, I brought it down to about 7.0-7.5 . The temperature seems to be at a steady 75 F, I'm not sure if my heater works I haven't tried it yet I think it may be broken however because I used to remember it light up and I'd turn it on and it didn't when I tried for a couple seconds. Anyway after a couple days of just letting the water sit and testing the PH I decided to go to the store and get some fish!
I found a tank at the store that had some smaller red/black oscars so I took 2 as well as taking a very nice sized placo, I figured if they were all already together they should get together nicely and not fight with one another. I may have rushed into adding them into the tank but I dumped them all in with little bit of store water. The placo seems to be doing great swimming around sucking on everything, I need to go buy him some more algae flakes. The 2 oscars seems to be doing well also, however it appears they may be fighting or possibly trying to breed because they like to rub into each other and run one another every now and then, could they just be playing? All 3 of the fish seem to become scared when I turn the light on and go towards the bottom of the tank, is this normal are they just scared and will eventually adapt?
If you've read all this I thank you! It's been quite some time since I had fish, I had a Jack Demspey live for about 5-6 years in a 10 gallon tank over 10 years ago when I was very much into fish. I love them I don't know how I went so long without them, any tips would be appreciated, anything else I should pickup at the store to help these guys adapt and have happy lives? Thanks again!
I found a tank at the store that had some smaller red/black oscars so I took 2 as well as taking a very nice sized placo, I figured if they were all already together they should get together nicely and not fight with one another. I may have rushed into adding them into the tank but I dumped them all in with little bit of store water. The placo seems to be doing great swimming around sucking on everything, I need to go buy him some more algae flakes. The 2 oscars seems to be doing well also, however it appears they may be fighting or possibly trying to breed because they like to rub into each other and run one another every now and then, could they just be playing? All 3 of the fish seem to become scared when I turn the light on and go towards the bottom of the tank, is this normal are they just scared and will eventually adapt?
If you've read all this I thank you! It's been quite some time since I had fish, I had a Jack Demspey live for about 5-6 years in a 10 gallon tank over 10 years ago when I was very much into fish. I love them I don't know how I went so long without them, any tips would be appreciated, anything else I should pickup at the store to help these guys adapt and have happy lives? Thanks again!