Oscar Cichlids - Astronotus ocellatus • Oscar Rehabilitation

[Tiktaalik Owner]

If there were an oscar for Oscar recovery you'd win.

This is amazing!

[Leviathan64]

Day 83 and going strong. Thanks for the compliments. It's been great to see her recover.
She still has a few remaining scars that just won't go away. She is healthy and eating like an Oscar. She seems to enjoy the festae too. More pictures as usual.

Week 1:


Day 26 :


Day 83:

[Chubbs the Jellybean]

Holy cow! Absolutely remarkable! And you know that oscar realizes what you've done for him

Bravo

[E82M6]

Wow. You did a wonderful thing for that oscar. It is good that some people actually care about animals.

[Catfish Dan]

I thgink I detect a little smile in those last two pics Posts like this make me happy indeed.

[Tiktaalik Owner]

Posts like this confirm my faith in the essential decency of the hobby.

[Nina_b]

Posts like this confirm my faith in the essential decency of the hobby.

agreed!

[cambelsoop]

Wow great Job. What exactly did u do to help him. What did u use

[thegreatrazor]

Quite the amazing recovery

[Leviathan64]

A huge bump here. Still going strong. Now in a 110 gallon with her male festae and 3 juvenile sieboldii. Maintaining her health and some areas just did not get back to normal. Eating like pig and enjoying life. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/5u0pLOapsEM

[mellybug21]

Its great to know that shes looking great and feeling great all because someone took a little bit of time and lots of love to get her back to normal.

[aicardi]

Bravo! Many rewards here. First and foremost for the beautiful Oscar. Then you, and all of us. Wonderful heart warming thread.

[Leviathan64]

Saturday was moving day. I transported Oscar and festae to their new location. They are soon to be in the Fishguy's large tank. The festae to see if he can pair up with his female. The Oscar too as he can't resist an Oscar. 42 sq. feet of water or 1200 gallons is a good place to be.

[TheFishGuy]

Great news, this Oscar has been in my 1200 for while and when "she" was first put in "she" caused a lot of turmoil amungst the group of oscars already in the tank which consisted of a large female, five of her fry that are about 8" now and a red Oscar about the same size. The red Oscar has since died from unexplained reasons and the new Oscar is actually a male. I know this for sure now since he's spawning with my female as I type. Unfortunately she's laying eggs on the bottom of the tank where they've cleared gravel away so there's no way to save the eggs... There's just too many predators in the tank for the pair to raise the eggs to fry... She's a seasoned pro but I'm thinking this is probably his first time... Gonna try to post a video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyZrCpeUDk

[TheFishGuy]

Try this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyZrCpe ... zQ&index=1

What you're looking at in the begining of the video are oscar eggs on the floor of the tank... They spawned behind a tree stump....