How can one fish make you so angry

[Guyb93]

Ok iv spent all morning travelling a hour and some to get some fish , I buy 8 Columbian tetra and 5 silver dollars I return home with in 10 minutes I have 3 tetra and 1 silver dollar , my Oscar is a complete penis and it’s really annoyed me that I have gone out my way to buy dither fish suited to that demon and it’s made no difference as it’s gonna eat them all , I over fed him this morning to try and stop it’s impulse but it’s just eating for fun now cus it’s not hungry , it’s only 7inches and it’s swallowing 4inch silver dollars like they are giving him a high , so annoyed as my smaller eba are smaller than these silver dollars and they don’t get eaten I just wanna punch a fish so bad

 

[itiwhetu]

There's not a lot you can put with a 7" Oscar unless its bigger than it

 

[Guyb93]

There's not a lot you can put with a 7" Oscar unless its bigger than it

Mate so angry right now iv got no choice but to sit and watch the thing eat them aswel I don’t have a second tank and really they were only bought for this tank so wouldn’t want them in any other , I honestly thought I’m such large Groups they would just chill n all be ok but it was trying to eat them through the bag when I was floating them , gutted to say the least so my options of dither fish are non basically

 

[itiwhetu]

Mate so angry right now iv got no choice but to sit and watch the thing eat them aswel I don’t have a second tank and really they were only bought for this tank so wouldn’t want them in any other , I honestly thought I’m such large Groups they would just chill n all be ok but it was trying to eat them through the bag when I was floating them , gutted to say the least so my options of dither fish are non basically

Any chance of removing them to a floating container and then re homing them in the next couple of days. Honestly Oscars are mean Sons of b.....

 

[itiwhetu]

You need to find either another big Oscar, or big Jack dempsey or the like

 

[Guyb93]

Any chance of removing them to a floating container and then re homing them in the next couple of days. Honestly Oscars are mean Sons of b.....

Honestly there’s nothing to rehome , there is one Columbian hiding in the corner , it’s ate them all and not even any mess for the pleco , days like this make me want to close my tank tbh

 

[Guyb93]

You need to find either another big Oscar, or big Jack dempsey or the like

He lives fine with my electric blue acara , the way I feel I might put my acara and pleco in a new tabk and buy 4 red belly piranha and put them in with it

 

[itiwhetu]

Honestly there’s nothing to rehome , there is one Columbian hiding in the corner , it’s ate them all and not even any mess for the pleco , days like this make me want to close my tank tbh

Sorry mate that is one mean Oscar even by Oscar standards

 

[kwi]

There's a few chiclids, that can work with oscars as well, maybe Bala and Red-Tails too, but oscars are known for being male appendages, you must of got the donkey sized one.......
But no one would of expected 4" silver dollars to get munched.......maybe more mature fish are needed here.

 

[Guyb93]

There's a few chiclids, that can work with oscars as well, maybe Bala and Red-Tails too, but oscars are known for being male appendages, you must of got the donkey sized one.......
But no one would of expected 4" silver dollars to get munched.......maybe more mature fish are needed here.

I thought the dollars were safe I really did I have smaller acara but he swallowed them didn’t even chew I’m shocked the Oscar isn’t dead from an exploded belly I honestly don’t know how he’s ate everything and it just had the last hiding tetra too

 

[kwi]

Of course we need a picture of him now.........

 

[Guyb93]

Of course we need a picture of him now.........

This is the bugger

 

[kwi]

butter wouldn't melt.......

 

[Ch4rlie]

I'm sorry, but I'm kind of growing to like the little bugger

He has all his own character and personality even if its eating all his tankmates for fun at your annoyance and expenses!

He lives fine with my electric blue acara , the way I feel I might put my acara and pleco in a new tabk and buy 4 red belly piranha and put them in with it

Got a feeling the Oscar will even eat the piranhas too even if you had a large enough tank for them
From what I've heard about them in the past from other keepers, believe it or not, piranhas are quite docile, will only attack sick or dying livestock, rarely will they attack healthy livestock!
(unless of course they're starving or something I suppose!)

Quite a boring fish specie actually imho
Of course aside from the ferocious attacks that one sees on nature documentaries its quite enthralling to watch!!

 

[PhantomCarp]

Go for black belly piranha there way more aggressive