Problem with my big Oscar

[Sougata]

Ok i had a lone Oscar staying in a 55 gallon for 2 yrs .. doing well at about 11 inches now..next week i am getting my dream 200 gallon and plan to have juvenile green terror, parrot, jaguar and severum..all about 5-6 inches ... Will they be able to face my 11 inch Oscar who is also going to shift in this 200 gallon..
Any help highly appreciated..am a lot tensed with this

 

[AmyKieran]

Ok i had a lone Oscar staying in a 55 gallon for 2 yrs .. doing well at about 11 inches now..next week i am getting my dream 200 gallon and plan to have juvenile green terror, parrot, jaguar and severum..all about 5-6 inches ... Will they be able to face my 11 inch Oscar who is also going to shift in this 200 gallon..
Any help highly appreciated..am a lot tensed with this

It sounds ok to me but I’m still learning with Americans

I’ll call in the big guns tho

@Wills
@Colin_T

Lol

 

[Wills]

Hi welcome to the forum

Your Oscar is going to love that new tank, the only issue is going to be Oscars can eat pretty big fish so I wouldnt guarantee that they wouldnt go after even a 5-6 inch fish. Would you be able to grow them on in your 55gallon and then add them to the 200?

The other thing to mention is that its not a good idea to mix south and central american cichlids together, they are so different in terms of type of water they need, aggression and given your choice of a Jaguar their jaws are so powerful something like a Severum would not be able to compete so I would avoid the Jaguar.

You may be ok with the Green Terror in the 200 gallons but some of them are just impossible to keep with other fish. So long as you have soft water you can go for a South American community and make sure to take advantage of that, it will of course need to be a big fish community because of your oscar but things like Silver Dollars in particular the patterned species like Blackberrys, spotted and tigers are nice, pink tailed chalceus, leporinus, flag tail prochilodus all good options. You are even big enough for something like a small group of Lima Shovel Nose Catfish (not to be confused with a Tiger Shovelnose) some of the bigger Ageneiosus species would be pretty awesome too. Maybe some of the needle nose gars for the surface too?

Just dont try and fill it with cichlids as you will have trouble - South America is so amazingly diverse so take advantage of it

Wills

 

[Colin_T]

I agree with @Wills on the jaguar cichlid (Cichlasoma managuense). They are nothing but trouble and will end up killing most, if not all the fish in the tank. Cichlasoma dovii are another one to avoid.

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If you get a female green terror cichlid, they aren't as aggressive as the males. Some males aren't too bad but most have very unpleasant natures. They aren't called green terrors for nothing.

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Do you feed your Oscar with live foods?
If you do then it is more likely to eat its tank mates. Under these circumstances, you could put the smaller fish in the big tank and add the Oscar a week or two later.

Try to add all the cichlids at the same time so none get to set up a territory and attack others when they get introduced later on.

Feed cichlids before adding new fish to their tank. A fish that isn't hungry will be less likely to attack new fish.

Rearrange the ornaments/ decorations in the tank before adding new fish. This helps to break up established territories and gives new fish more chance to find a home and not get killed for entering another fish's territory.

 

[itiwhetu]

Oscars really need to be with Oscars, they are not great tank mates.

 

[Sougata]

Thank you so much guys ...am dropping the jaguar then.. green terror remains , only the female GT doesn't have the hump on the head which gives the male version some edge ..

 

[Sougata]

Will update once the tank gets going in 8-10 days..