Oscar Cichlid, the grumpy old man u got to love!
So I have a BIG Oscar cichlid in a 38 gallon tank. That fish is teh most hilarious fish you’ll ever meet. Here is what you need to know about these guys:
1. They get big, yeah real big real fast, I bought my he was 2 inches and now he’s a foot long! Keep this in mind before getting one…unless you plan on eating him when he gets a certain size. I know it sounds wierd, but don’t laugh…a chinese man told me to eat it, he said everyone does!
2. Oscars are moody, if you don’t change the tank water they will get mad and pouty at you. Mine would swim around in circles chasing his tail showing his disgust. He would also charge the tank glass when I would put a crawfish into the mix to see what would happen.
3. Oscars are very messy fish, these fish eat and eat and chew half their food and leave the rest to rot. You must clean the tank often or they will get vey moody…see #2.
4. Some say that Oscars are some of the smartest fish around. The live in the Amazon basin (so they aren’t an African Cichlid…don’t hate me;) and they have been around through many many evoutional changes. Plus they live in one hostile environment…the jungle waters of the amazon is the oldest river and most deadly with pirahannas, crocs, and many poisonous snakes and such.
5. Very territorial, this goes for all cichlids but the oscars are particularly territorial! Mine would kill goldfish just for the sake of keeping them out of the his side of the tank and then the bodies would rot because he was too full to eat them. No sense of conservation…I tell ya’ 
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