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:

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.