FREE JACK DEMPSEY and a ?

[Killer]

alright guys i'm lookin for a good home for my dempsey to go to... it's just takin up room in my tank. i've got a 29 gallon tank with two 6-7 inch oscars and the dempsey which is about 4 inches... i don't want it at all anyone out there interested???? let me know.

now for the question, i've had what they call a "normal" oscar for about two years, it's gotten quite large. it's always been pretty aggresive and would practically flip out when i was ready to feed it. well during christmas i bought a tiger oscar that's a little larger than the other. since then the normal oscar doesn't eat hardly at all, and also goes crazy sometimes in the night, hurting itself on the filters. actually it jumped out of the tank once!!! any advice??

[The Golden Child]

i would put a net over the tank

[Killer]

.... i know that... i mean to get it eating again...

[Twinturbo6]

too bad about the dempsey, I live in savannah, as for the not eating, wigging out I have no idea. sounds like you need to keep him in your quarentine tank for a while....

[The Golden Child]

i think seperating em is what you shoudl do and see how it works

[wes_297]

its recomende that you have 55 gallons for each oscar. it kinda sucks i had the same problem. one actualy killed the other one. they were both about 8inches. good luck man.

[s13freak]

I take the JACK DEMPSEY if you don't want it! I am in Marietta, Right off the Big Chicken!

[Goinfasterthanu]

its recomende that you have 55 gallons for each oscar. it kinda sucks i had the same problem. one actualy killed the other one. they were both about 8inches. good luck man.


Yes you have TO many fish in there!!! Full grown oscars need LOTS of room.

[EmotorsportsE]

I would take the Jack, but the one in my 55 gallon tank is about 8 inches.

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[Repost Squintz]

what do jack dempseys look like? never seen one before...

[Killer]

i'll try to take a pic for ya.....^^^^

[SLiP-N-SLiDe]

http://badmanstropicalfish.com/cichlids/jack_dempsey.jpg

[Killer]

^^^ but mines bigger... and they don't normally have that much black in them untill they are either spooked or two males are fighting, or protecting eggs... a better way to say that would have been... stressed.. lol

[Killer]

oh and an update! the normal oscar is eating normal again... randomly! what strange is i left for home friday... and i fed them this mornin and all three ate like they hadn't been fed, yet i know my room mate over fed them while i was gone cause my tank was all kinds of nasty.. but they ate and more importantly it ate without being scared!

[Killer]

come on guys!!!! i need rid of this fish i'm moving this weekend and don't want to deal with it....