A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 yeaya my oscar just layed! ive bin trying to get them to breed the last week with lots of water changes etc and now i got eggs! the female is a red oscar , and the other is a tiger oscar im hopeing the tiger is a male tho lol mayb a female aswell it has swum over the eggs a few times, im hoping its fertilizing the eggs fingers crossed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 Look for a difference in their depositors. Very easy to see at this time. If they are fertile, I hope you have some big growing on tanks. They have 100's of babies. Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 o dats right lol! just checked and yep male and female! ive just sold lots of my growout tanks lol ive still got 3 2foot tanks i could use and maybe my 4foot community tank i dont like community fish anyway lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 A friend of mine had a grow out pond made from concrete blocks laid on a lawn to form a square and then a sheet of black polythene laid inside that. The water was pea-soup green and the pond measured about 1.5M square. Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 o that would be good, lol if only i could heat my gold fish pond dont think my parents would let me do that haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishboi Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 congratulations A.PROPHECY :bounce: :bounce: let us know how everything turn out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 when i get fry, when should i move the fry to growout tanks? scared the parents may eat them as its there first spawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 IF the eggs are fertile (females will often pair up) they will most likely eat their eggs, if they got their fry to wriggles on the first go they are doing very well :lol: removing wrigglers from parents will probably leave you battered and bleeding so id remove the eggs. or you could just remove any remaining fry once theyre a bit larger which would help keep numbers down as some would be eaten/die etc and you wont have so many to rehome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 prety sure ther male female pair as the vents lookd differnt. i dont wana loose to many , wana sell thn to the lfs wen ther big enuf ill see how they go dont realy wana take the eggs out ,wait til ther wrigglers maybe..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 also how long would os look afte ther fry? i remba wen i breed convicts that they lookd afta the fry for about 3 weeks befor i had to remove them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 if you wait till theyre free swimming (if they get that far) to remove i would corner off the parents to try to remove the fry. i have one of my oscars teeth (it fell out from him digging) and i wouldnt like to have a set of them in my hand, they would most definatly do some damage and oscars can get brutal when it comes to defending fry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 you have an oscar tooth? i always hand feed my os and they chop down on my finger every time no teeth tho , and looking into there mouths i dont see any.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 if you can grab a peek at them when theyre charging at the glass have a look at their lips, its like they have two sets of lips and their teeth are in the middle of them- they are very well hidden but you can often see tiny little white bits which are the top. those teeth are for grabbing and theyre quite sharp but oscars have pharangel (sp) teeth aswell which are down in their throat, they look like a rib cage with spikes on it (for lack of better explanation) and these are used for grinding up their food. when you hear them eating and crunching thats those teeth doing their job- you can see them too when the O opens its mouth real wide. heres a post i made on another site about Franks little ordeal :lol: my camera sucks so the pic of his tooth aint that great but its about 2.5-3mm long http://www.theoscarspot.com/index.php?o ... pic=9725.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 lol thats funy neva thort they had nethn but rubber lips but i stil dont think they can do much damage , lol ill have to find out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 Tracey on these forums often leaves the tank bleeding when dealing with her O tank, they are powerful fish. make sure to post some pics of the bite marks for us :lol: ive never let my O bite me for that reason but i am curious to see what they can actually do when they get angry enough :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 lol sweet i guess wil find out how tuff they are in the next few days when i remove the eggs/fry lol ill let you kno how it goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 my 0scars eggs are still white... arent they ment to go an amber colour if fertlised? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 yep, whitish/opaque means infertile, reddish amber clearish (lol) means fertile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 ok ive noticed thers about a dozen totaly white ones, id say there fungusd over lol but the rest arnt white but a kinda pink colour lol hmmmm o i duno lol shud find out soon neway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 if theres only a dozen thats pretty good then good luck with the rest of the eggs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.PROPHECY Posted October 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 lol today all the eggs fungusd and the 0s ate them lol hmmm owel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dragonslayer Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 I have bred Oscars for many years and I used to remove the eggs from the parents every single time and raised the fry on brine shrimp. These fish will get really aggressive when you do this and will attack you (I have a scar on on of my fingers to prove this). I used to have to get a friend to corner the parents off after that incident. It sounds as though you do have a pair if the vents are different. The good news is that although the eggs fungused, they will breed again and very soon too. If you want to speed this process up do a few water changes and keep your tank as clean as possible. I also found that they would lay eggs again very quickly if the eggs had been removed. They also sulked a bit after the eggs had ben taken away, but rather that than have them eat the fry. The best thing to do IMO is to have a flat piece of slate in the tank. Once they have layed the eggs on this you remove it and place it in a smaller tank with water from the larger tank they were in in the first place. I used to keep the smaller tank bare with a small airstone placed under the slate so that there was a constant flow of water moving over the eggs. (this achieved the same effect as if the parents were fanning the eggs) Do not have the bubbles directly on the eggs and do not use a power filter as i did this once and all the fry ended up getting sucked into this and died. common sense did not prevail and I should have known better. Although I do recommend removing the eggs I should also tell you this. there is nothing like seeing the fry and parents swimming around in a tank together. It truly is an amazing sight to behold. Its a risk leaving the eggs in but definately a worthwhile one if you can achieve this result. I only removed the eggs because I owned the LFS and it all boiled down to raising the fry into baby oscars and selling them off. Good luck with your oscars and if you have any questions that i may not have answered please feel free to ask. It has been a long time since I bred these wonderful fish but i do remember a lot of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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