My Oscar has a new behavior. He comes out of the water and bumps the glass lids on the top of the aquarium. The lids come up a bit and back down and make a thump noise. This noise sends my doberman Roxy hiding in the laundry room (Pathetic I know) One, I am wondering why the heck he is doing this and two, should I put child locks on the lids? any other ideas? anyone else have such an naughty Oscar or is it just mine?
:lol:They are characters, aren't they! Mine will do that if he sees a bug or something on the glass lid. Or he could be doing it just because. :twisted:
Mine have started to do the same thing but so far only at feeding time. I'm going to place a board accross the top to keep the lid down on mine. Had one Oscar jump out before when I didn't have a lid so won't make that mistake again.
I would guess he is bored, maybe drop the water liver 1-2" and add a ping pong ball for him to bat around. I have thought about getting some of the kid rings for a pool to add to my oscar tank for them to play with.
I have tried the ping pong balls before he didn't seem interested. Pool ring sound fun. I have been feeding him pellets only and no live fish because I'm am waiting for feeder guppies to get big enough. He likes to chase those so maybe when he has something to chase he will get better. I have been doing 50% changes 2x a week this picture is what levels look like before a change. After a bit better should I do less water more often? He is in a 75 gal.
With Oscar's large water changes are best to keep nitrates low. The two 50% water changes per week is good. As he grows you may need to increase percentage of water slightly.
If you can get your hands on some seachem prime, I recommend it. It'll at least detoxify high nitrites and nitrates and remove ammonia when you do those big changes, but do expect it to smell like sulfur until stabilized...Awful for a time, but it works epicly.
Also second adding something to hold the lid down. My grandparents lost their oscar, who they'd had more than a decade, when he jumped out and nobody was home. =(
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