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My new Oscar Kong

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#1 ·
First off I know Kong might sound impressive, but he is a baby so give him time.

I have been looking for weeks for the right Oscar for my tank but none of the ones I had seen was what I wanted. But my Local fish store came thru for me again and I got him on March 12th he was 1.5" long, in the last week he has almost doubled in size. The first few days he keep swimming head up almost straight up and down, I almost took him back to the store but he quit doing that after I put him into the 29g with some female guppies.

He has already learned I always feed in the same spot so he comes over to the corner of the tank as soon as he sees me. He is a huge eating machine, he would eat 4-5 times a day if I would feed him that often. But doesn't like the flake guppy food he will grab it then spits it back out. I gave him a little bit of a worm and he attacked it like a wild dog on a bone. Little dude has some much personality already.

He is very hard to get a good photo he won't stay still and I think he sees the camera as the "black box of doom" because he will hide when I get close to the glass with it.

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Thanks guys. I know I will have to pull the guppies from his tank before long, he will eat them when he is big enough.

My wife told me today I should get another on so the grow up together. I don't know why she said that, she knows I'm weak and will buy another one :)
 
#10 ·
Thank you.


This little guy is quickly becoming my favorite fish. He is a joy to watch, he just looks like he is always deep in thought . I'm pretty sure he is thinking about eating the guppies that are bigger than him at the moment. :lol:


I feed him a guppy fry from my fry tank and he acted like he just won the lottery.
 
#11 ·
He's is a small fish with great personality :) I bet he is a joy to watch I threw my Texas in my tank its just amazing how it adapted so fast :) keep me updated on Kong as he grews he is going to have a nice color to him :)
 
#12 ·
Nice tiger oscar. Enjoy him! They are so full of personality. I really enjoy mine.
 
#13 ·
Well Kong is spoiled or maybe a jerk. I have had him a while and you would think he would understand I'm the person that feeds him 3 times a day and water changes 3 times a week. Well last weekend I did a 75% water change and sense then he sits on the bottom of the tank and pouts when I'm the room. I was getting worried about him but I noticed when I leave the room it takes about 20-30 mins and he is swimming around like normal but as soon as I walk in he goes to the bottom.

I did get another Oscar a few weeks ago so they could grow up together and maybe lessen the chance of fighting when they are older. This one is about a week younger so a little smaller. He will follow Kongs lead but you can tell he wants to swim up and grab the food. He will dart to the top and grab some then Kong decides it isn't to bad and will grab some also.
 
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