Subj : Re: some people are so cr
To   : All
From : T
Date : Thu Feb 05 2004 11:01 am

You can keep the Oscars together with the African cousins.. It can be
done.. Expect losses though.. Actually at a new Vet's office today, he had
parrots, Africans and a Dempshy together.. Odd, yes.. Would I do or suggest
doing this no.. The Dempsy is going to snack sooner or later on his African
cousins or the "high" breed parrots will do the same..  I have succesfully
kept, Oscars, Koi, Goldfish and pl*co's in the same tank.. A lot of
maintenence yes, but they co habitated fairly decently..  Piranha's should
really be kept to themselves.. Eventually though. there is only going to be
one left, one mean set of Tatra's they are. The guy was smart enough to
read, but not smart enough to learn from expierance. The big tet's have a
tendecy to attack anything they feel threatened by, that includes most fish
larger than them..  Who knows about the LFS guy.. Ah well some people never
get it..

Tim...

"Lookn4nemo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Ok you win.  I missed the part about the Betta.  I have been doing
research
> for about a year and have collected a small library of marine books but I
> have never seen a book or post that tells me that I can't keep Oscars (a
> Cichlid) with African Cichlids so I went on what my LFS told me.  I won't
> make that mistake again.  BTW I like you comment at the end of your post.
I
> think I'll see if I can't find a situation in which to use it today...
:-)
>
>
> "blove" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > its not all the lfs store guys fault, the guy should have done research
> > before buying the fish.  and in this one case this guy wanted to buy a
> betta
> > to put in with his oscars, i told him the betta is only aggressive to
his
> > own kind and would be brutily killed by the oscars, the guy bought the
> betta
> > anyways.  you can lead a person to knowledge but you cant make the moron
> > think.
> >
> > "Lookn4nemo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > >
> > > "Trina" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > Trying to figure out whether this person is ignorant, stupid, cruel
or
> > > > all 3...
> > > >
> > > > http://www.powerlabs.org/fish.htm
> > > >
> > > > Trina :)
> > > > Yukon, Canada
> > > > 44gal/tall/pent/fresh
> > > > 10gal/planted/fresh
> > >
> > > It kinda sounds like his LFS rep is the idiot in this case.  I had a
> > similar
> > > problem but was smart enough to take my questions to the groups.  I
too
> > > tried to put Oscars and Cichlids in the same tank.  The smaller
cichlids
> > > tried to make a meal of the slightly larger Oscars.  My LFS said they
> > would
> > > be fine together because an Oscar is a Cichlid.  Lucky for my Oscars I
> had
> > a
> > > spare 20 gallon tank already set up (had just moved piranhas from it
to
> a
> > > 55).  So now my son has the Cichlids in his room and the Oscars have
> since
> > > been moved to a 75 gallon tank.  In a couple months they will graduate
> to
> > > the new 125 I am buying and the Piranhas will get the 75.  If I'd have
> > taken
> > > the advice of my LFS I'd probably have just two Piranhas left.  But
> thanks
> > > to the groups I have two Piranhas, three Oscars and 10 African
Cichlids.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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