2006-08-05 07:00:07 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
I read your other post as well. Maybe you have gotten away with keeping those fish together, but that doesn't make it good for the fish. The Scat is a brakish fish. They require a high alkaline hard water environment. The Goldfish can handle slighlty more alkaline water, but prefers colder waters. Higher temps can make it more vulnerable to diseases. Oscars and Angelfish, though they should not be kept together, prefer a softer more acidic environment and temps around 78 to 84 degrees. In any case not one of your fish is truly compatible with any of the other. Some people get away with keeping incompatible fish together.....but frankly.....they realy don't care about the health of the fish at all....as obviously you don't. Great that you have been doing it......but it's really not good for the fish.
2006-08-05 09:49:33 · answer #1 · answered by Ginger 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
first of all the gold fish is cold water an the oscar and angels are tropical, and a scat is brackish. So, you can try to accomodate one, but the others will suffer a premature death. I would choose what you want, the scat, the goldfish or the oscar and angels. Oh, and if you don't know what brackish is that is light saltwater, not as salty as saltwater in the ocean but like half the saltiness this occurrs were freshwater rivers meet the ocean and creates a semi-salt water. So, your other fish being freshwater fish won't tolerate the salt, and the scat won't last very long without salt (marine salt not table salt).
one more thing, Oscars grow to 12-14 in. so I hope you have at least a 75 gallon tank.
2006-08-05 14:10:17 · answer #2 · answered by stingray4540 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!!! The Oscars will eat everything (fish, plants and all) and you will end up with a bare tank with two (yes two) big Oscars.
2006-08-05 14:05:58 · answer #3 · answered by Perry L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that it is possible for those fish to live in harmony. Oscars are aggressive and angels are territorial. Stranger things have happened though.
2006-08-05 14:04:47 · answer #4 · answered by tpurtygrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because the scats and the oscars r going to be fighting
2006-08-05 14:04:58 · answer #5 · answered by Ashley P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the oscars will eat evrythng. or kill them. the goldfish r just 2 dirty, im surprised anythings alive in ur tank.
separate them unless u like watching fish fights.
2006-08-05 14:07:48 · answer #6 · answered by RIKNAMB4EVR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the oscars will eat the smaller fish, dont do it
2006-08-05 14:02:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
poor gold fish.Man!! u can see WWE in ur fish tank
2006-08-05 14:02:42 · answer #8 · answered by MaxMetallica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no the oscars wud eat evrything else!!!
2006-08-05 14:03:01 · answer #9 · answered by Steve P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sushi for dinner?
2006-08-05 14:03:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋