Oscar help for a beginner

So most of you seen me posting on the forums latley about oscars and pleco. I just seem to fall in love with oscars. I am trying to find some baby common oscars but I have had no luck. I am even going to set up 2 more 150 gallon tanks for oscars. 1 tank for tigers, 1 for common (its cycleing now) and 1 for Red oscars. Any one have a any clue where I can find some common oscars in western PA or even on the net.

 

I just seem to fall in love with oscars.

 

"that fish place" had a lot of them in lancaster pa, when you mean baby these were about 1" or so vary cute and small if I say so my self haha they were like $3 don't know where you live

 

I live in western pa in mercer county. I don't think the fish would survive that kinda drive unless they ship

well I contacted them and they do ship but I have to special order them which isn't a big deal thanks for the info there website carries a lot of fish nice store.

 

You'll have a total of three 150 gal. tanks!? Good luck with that! I can hardly keep up with my 3 small tanks (10 gal, 30 gal, and 75 gal). But I am secretly dreaming of a 200 gal. tank ...or so Are you going to have 2 - 3 Oscars in one of the 150 gal. tanks?

 

I checked it out little more there stuff is really cheap so kinda cool to find some nice decro

 

if you can't find them locally, you might try a site like liveaquaria

 

Sounds like you have a good setup going.

I'll state this, from a book I read, as I have no experience breeding/raising pairs of Oscars. If you want to breed them, you'll need more than just one pair. The book I have recommends, at least, 4. Understand once they pair off, you'll need to get rid of the others quickly, as the pair will then gang up on the stragglers. 4 is a good number since it's hard to sex Oscars. Even if they are paired off, there's no guarantee that they'll be happy with each other forever, and then you may have to separate them in the tank, with a divider.

I did a lot of research into pairs and breeding, since I've always wanted to do it. Unfortunately, I don't have the room for all the tanks right now.

Good Luck.

 

thanks I am going to be getting 6 tigers and 6 reds and get as many pairs as I can once all my tanks are set up puting 12 baby oscars and letting them grow together until they pair off in 150gal isn't really overcrowding imho. they are only 2 inchs long and by reading they get to the pairing age at 4-5 inchs which then ill start transfering pairs to other 150 gals. hehe its pretty funny tho I went from haveing no aquairam to diveing in to getting 4 150 gallon aquariums and 1 29 gallon probably get a 125gallon for the babys once the finaly mate.