Below I will
post some comments I have received from pacu fans. I add
new ones every couple of months. Some of them are full of
facts and experiences; some are filled with fun stories. I
have marked in bold the comments I find of interest
or I find funny. I will be adding real forums soon. Enjoy:
Most frequently asked
Question:
How often should I feed my
Oscar live feeders?
Answer: According
to our local pet store and experience, we feed them ciclid
sticks and once a week we feed them multiple feeders. It
depends on the size of our fish but they will chase, catch
and eat as many as they can fit in their mouths. Quite
remarkable.
I really appreciate all the work you did to provide
information for those of us who would like to know
more about our fish!
FYI, oscars often attack heater lights. It is
possible that your friend's fish and yours were
attacking the light that comes on when the heater is
on and that is how the heaters broke. An easy fix is
to position your heater so the light faces away from
inside of the tank.
Jon
Hi,
Just thought I would write in to tell you that your's is the
best
website so far that I have found on this fish. Most don't
even list them
under "oddball varieties" I started working in a
feed and pet supply store
in Feb. and we have a fish dept. One day this very nice guy
comes in with a
problem, it seems his fish have out grown his tank and he
needs to get rid
of them. Being a big softie I told him I would be glad to
take them in. (At
this time I had a 20 gal tank just sitting on the deck that
my husband
bought me) After I asked what kind of fish, he told me they
were a albino
tiger oscar and a pacu. My mother had one of these fish when
I was very
young, so I figured no problem.(ha ha) Now we have
"Fillet" she is
beautiful, her tankmate went to a home with other tiger
oscars.She seemed
lonely at first so I brought home a small feeder, he would
either be a buddy
or dinner. Well 4 months later the feeder whose name is
"Buddy" loves her
(her dorsal is mostly rounded and I read that males have a
sharper point to
their dorsal fins) he goes to which ever part of the tank
she is at and even
rubs against her at times. My husband has given in and let
me purchase a 135
gal tank for her and I now have another person who wants to
give me a long
finned albino tiger oscar who is half her size. My girl is
about 14 inches
long and very active, she likes bannanas and she plays
with whole unshelled
hazel nuts, I only give these to her rarely as I don't
know what it does to
the water. I have heard of Pacus cracking the shells of
Brazil nuts and
eating the nut.
Great website man, its good to
see some interesting informative material on the net. I
just graduated college and my obsession with tropical fish
grows by the day. What began as a bowl holding a beta soon
turned into the 100 gallon that i am now looking to
upgrade even further. I have 2 pacus, two tiger oscars,
green terror, 2 parrots, and some other ciclids. My pacus
are about the same size as yours and they act exactly like
you descibe them.
We have a Pacu that we've
had for about twelve years.
This month we purchased a
300 gallon aquarium for him (her). We had him in a 100
gal.
Of course, he broke heaters
(fortunately never electrocuted I was surprised about
your
story) knocked the top glass
panels off the aquarium, with them landing either in his
aquarium or broken on the
floor--what a character. Good thing we have hardwood
floors.
We are very attached to him
and talk to him every time we walk past his aquarium--he loves attention.
The question I have is are
there any toys, like balls or rings we could use to
train him
or that he could play with?
I'm worried that he gets bored. Every so often we buy
him
plants from the fish store
which we know he'll tear up but we figure it gives him
some-
thing to do. He started out
with Oscars but did away with them rather quickly. So
we've
given up getting him a
companion. He is trained to get his grapes stuffed with
pellets
by swimming from one end to
the other. My son is worried that I give him too many
grapes and he will just get
bigger. He gets a total of 8 grapes a night and every
other
night I stuff them with
Cichlid pellets. I didn't know you could get sinking
pellets. He
also likes strawberries. No
veggies thank you.
