[b]Albino Oscars will mix well with...???[/b]

[thmandan22]

Hello Everybody,
I have a couple of questions about my Albino Oscar. But first I will just give you some information.
Ok, I have just bought a 29 gallon fish tank with a 10'' Plecostomus a 4'' or 5'' Albino Oscar( it is not aggresive toward any fish over .25'') and about 15-20 of those little White Cloud Feeder fish about .5'' to .75'' it is not over crowded according to the 1'' = 1gallon becuase it comes up to about a 22 gallons worth of fish (but I would never put anymore fish in becuase i stand strong that if it is over crowded they get stressed and certantly do not like it.)
Besides from that i was wondering about mixing fish , I have a 10 gal. tank with 3 red tailed black sharks about 1'',1.5'', and 2'', they arenot very aggresive they just pick a certain plant or small rock and swim around it, (I beleive i have 2 females 1 male) and I have 3 neon tetras(.5'') and 4 Chinese algea eaters(2,about 2.5'',2 about 1''). So to get to the point (try to make this as simple as possible) I want to put the Albino Osacar i have and put it in a 20gallon tank (Currently with no fish in it) and put all the fish in my 10 gallon tank in with the Plecostomus ( wich is very dosile and amazez me with his ability to turn diffrent colors) i will give al lthose feeder fish to my friend who wants them.(i think they are feeder fish that is what my neighbor said who sold them to me , but i think they are White Clouds :? I do not know if they are feeder fish) :?
will this work :?: :?: :?: ???
ohh yeah , i was going to put yellow labs in with my oscar in the 20 gal. (at my fish store they call them electric yellow labs dont think theres a diffrence. :wink: ) so any suggestions or replys would and is greatly appreaciated
-Dan :roll:

[jonah]

In 6 months your oscar will be bigger than the plecostomus. You'll need at least a 55g for him/her. It might not seem aggressive now, but as it grows it will eat anything that will fit in it's mouth.

Electric yellows and yellow labs are the same thing, Labidochromis caeruleus. I don't believe a 20g is large enough for them. They're not that aggressive for mbuna, but they are more aggressive than most community fish.

Labs and oscars do not belong in the same tank. If they're both the same size, the labs will out compete the oscar with their aggression and if the oscar lives to outgrow the labs it will eat the labs. Oscars grow much faster than electric yellows and just about any other fish for that matter.

If you want cichlids and are limited to the 20g tank, you might want to consider kribs, South (or Central) American dwarf cichlids like Apistogrammas or rams, Tanganyikan shell dwellers or brichardi.

Did you have a 29g too, or was that a typo? :?

[my-fish'll-eat-yours]

i agree with jonah. the tanks you have them in are definitely too small. that 1"=1 gallon only applies to small, non-aggressive, low waste species like tetras and goldfish.

for oscars a good rule of thumb is 55 gallons for one, and at least 25 gallons for each one after that

1 oscar=55 gallons
2 oscars=75 gallons
3 oscars=100 gallons

[SGypsyMermaid]

[quote:5c15df42ef="my-fish'll-eat-yours"] that 1"=1 gallon only applies to small, non-aggressive, low waste species like tetras and goldfish.[/quote:5c15df42ef]

i have to disagree with you, here--goldfish are poop factories...they produce prodigious amounts of waste, and they can grow pretty big, too! :wink:

[jonah]

They've never grown big for me. In fact they usually disappear within minutes of getting in the tank. :wink: