Aquarium Fish World

I Got Two Tiger Oscars!

I’m so excited.  I got two Tiger Oscar Fish today.  I’m going to start them off in my 46 Gallon Tank as they are just babies right now so there’s plenty of room for them at the moment.  These fish grow really fast and really big so eventually I’ll have to either move one to the 55 Gallon I have or upgrade to bigger tanks entirely.

Most people with experience with Oscars recommend a 75 Gallon tank for one Oscar or a 125 Gallon for a pair, and they say that there really isn’t any way to tell the gender of the Oscars until later so I have no idea whether I have two males, two females, or a female and a male.  If I ended up with two males, chances are I will need to separate them into two different tanks (ie. 2 x 75 Gallon for example) but if I have two females or a male and a female, I may be able to keep them together in one larger tank.

Here are some pics I snapped of the two Oscars:

Aquarium Fish World Launched!

This evening I got a 20 Gallon fish tank kit from my younger brother Bart.  I got home and couldn’t wait to get it setup.  It took a while to clean off the area where I wanted to setup the aquarium but I managed to get it cleared off and got my talk setup.

It doesn’t have any fish in it yet, as I’m just filtering the water through the filter and warming it up to the right temperature.  Tomorrow I’ll go to the pet store and pickup some more supplies and hopefully some fish as well.

As part of my journey of learning about freshwater tropical aquarium fish I’ve decided to start this Blog to document what I learn along the way and hopefully inspire others to pickup this hobby.  My dad has had fish tanks ever since I can remember and still does to this day, and my younger brother has three larger tanks he’s keeping right now with various fish, turtles and a crayfish.  I’ll get some pictures up soon of my new setup as well as my brother’s and my dad’s tanks.