Oscars / Severum / Green Terror

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Mountjoy

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Hey all - here are my tanks!! First one is 135G Bowfront tank with Fx5 filter. I got 1 Lemon Oscar, 1 Red Albino Oscar, 1 Green Terror and 2 Severums. Love them all -







Here's my two big guys, Crash (Tiger) and Bubbles (albino Tiger)


Finally - my Flowerhorn. Got him just about a year ago - Hard to tell if it's a male or not - doesn't have the hump but is a very pretty fish!


Let me know what you think!

Jake
 
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Bassman42

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Hey, Awesome little Oscars! it's hard to find Lemon and Red Albino O's around here. Keep us posted on growth. They are going to look CRAZY when they get big!
 
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sandnuka

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Jake, your flowerhorn has gorgeous bright coloring... Im not an expert on flowerhorns at all.... but I would say male by the look.... only way to really tell though... venting... and he looks a lil' young to even tell that way.

All your stuff look awesome!
 
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Mountjoy

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I got the Flowerhorn at King Discus in Seattle. Has a great selection of Flowerhorns - he breeds them so he'll have a lot of juvys for $20. Of course there are the super awesome white ones for $135+.

THanks - does anyone know if flowerhorns get humps later on?

Jake
 
DMD123

DMD123

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Wow, I really like the bow front. Ive always liked the more unusual tank styles but I'm just to cheap to buy one!
 
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sandnuka

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I have heard from a breeder that only like 25% of the fish spawned from parents with large kok, (bump, nochual hump) whatever you want to call them, end up gettin kok themselfs..... So those typically are the ones that sell for allot.
With or without a kok, fish looks very nice though. Definetly worth 20 bucks.
 
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Wolf-Keeper1

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Man that is an awesome group of fish you got. I tried putting an oscar in my tank it didnt work out. I've never seen a lemon one before. Is there a large variety of oscars out there? I just seen the normal tiger oscars.

That flowerhorn is tite too. I really wanted one of those at one of my lfs they had one i was ready to buy but then got sold on the wolf cichlid.

Again awesome group of fish thanks for sharing.
 
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Mountjoy

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Wolf-Keeper1 said:
Man that is an awesome group of fish you got. I tried putting an oscar in my tank it didnt work out. I've never seen a lemon one before. Is there a large variety of oscars out there? I just seen the normal tiger oscars.
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There are many types of Oscars:
Tiger
Albino
Albino Tiger
Albino Red
Red
also there are wild caught ones I have seen that are basically black and brown, have orange eyes and an orange mark on the tail. They look pretty slick.

The Lemon Oscar is a naturally bred oscar, meaning it hasn't been dyed artificially. It is a rare Oscar, I bought him off ebay from someone in New Jersey (I am in Seattle). It was crazy, they overnighted him and he was great! I have no idea how they get them to be that color though, I just know that it's not dyed, or inhumane. But I have a flowerhorn so I guess I am preaching to the choir
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Wolf-Keeper1

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Ok my noobness is going to show here lol. I cant imagine how people can DYE a fish, I honestly cannot grasp that concept. Like how does that type of thing work? I know you can dye flowers by putting food color in the water, but fish?
 
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Mountjoy

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The Japanese do it I think. Just search for dyed blood parrot. Yeah they do it, its not cool. I don't know how.
 
Addictedtofish

Addictedtofish

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There is two different types of dye, cheap or liquid gel. the liquid gel is what the more expensive colored fish are dyed in and it lasts for the rest of there life if taken out of that water. The cheap dye only will last a couple months at most before there color washes out. I was told the liquid gel is like $80 on up per ounce.
 
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