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@dannyhegarty3694

5 жыл бұрын

The king of DIY.. hi. Would you ever try hook in the big tank or the pond.....? It would be interesting to see. Definitely the best aquarium Chanel... 👌👌

@EdWolfram

5 жыл бұрын

My Oscar "Mr. Nibbles" has quickly become on of my favorites in the fish room. Great personality and very interactive. He is messy which I perpetuate by adding floating stem plants. He spends most of the day tucked into the plants waiting on food "or my hand" to hit the water.

@itssliders1355

5 жыл бұрын

I have 4 oscar two is white and the other is a tiger oscar

@chetanmagundnawar2481

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Joey....I have the same coloured Oscar as yours ...it's called copper Oscar in our locality....

@snlfishnbirds9779

5 жыл бұрын

Frank!

Yay for Oscar love!

@Infamous_ytt

4 жыл бұрын

😀

@danielalexanderyt3232

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for teaching me how to clean a used tank. It really helped me. The used tank I cleaned will be used as a quarentine tank for my new oscar tank I'm getting soon, so I just want to thank you for that

@TheBatman254

2 жыл бұрын

I love Oscar fish I have to

My mom had an Oscar that refused to die! Despite several instances of hole-in-the-head, and house-sitters who over fed, under fed, and lapsed with water changes when she traveled, she always came home to find him still swimming around! He finally died at 18 or 19 years of age. He was huge, probably about 14" long, and hilariously picky about the decorations in his tank. There was one little flower pot he absolutely HATED, and would always bury with gravel every time my mom dug it out and repositioned it. His best bud was a large common pleco... he'd let the pleco come and "groom" his sides and float aimlessly adrift while he enjoyed his massage. My mom lasted less than a year before getting a new one because they are such entertaining roommates! The new one is doing very well and has a beautiful smooth face; no hole-in-the-head! He also does the thing with his pleco pal, now, though it took him a while to decide they could be friends.

Dude. I tuned out for a little while with the direction you took with your vids but this... THIS type of video (and your old school DIY stuff) is what I subbed to you for a long time ago. To see you geek out on your oscar changing color is really awesome. Thanks for sharing that! Cheers bro!

I feel like goldfish are the most abused followed by either bettas or oscars

How to care for flowerhorns next. I think a large amount of people would really like that.

@user-nv7ji2nj5v

5 жыл бұрын

Yasss

"Oscar is the most abused fish in the Hobby" Goldfish: hold my beer

@Spingus33

3 жыл бұрын

Bettas:

So glad you made this video! I keep nodding my head in agreement with everything. So many don’t realize that that cute little Oscar chasing your fingers on the glass at the pet store will get big and fast! I have my 2 knuckleheads in a 125G filtered with TWO FX6’s. I still do water changes regularly because, like you said, they are messy. I love my babies. Man, you hit the nail on the head with everything in this video right down to them changing colors with their moods.

You definitely inspired us to get a fish tank after 20 years of being out of the Hobby. Now I am introducing it to my six-year-old daughter

Love how Hooks colours perfectly match the background & substrate

I really enjoyed having a species specific video, that was really cool. When he changed colour so fast it looked like he got seasick 🤣

The close-up shots are so good. This fish looks amazing. Such an awesome copper color.

Loved it Joey! I think a mini series about each tank/fish would be really cool!

@rayward623

5 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

You've got the perfect background for him there. He seems to be camouflaging.

In my first fishkeeping years I had two little tiny Oscars in a ten gal tank. No internet then mind you. Then I had two in a 20 , two in a 40, then went right to 75. I loved them. They would sulk and drape themselves over rocks and play dead if their food was late. They would rub on my arms when I was sticking the plastic plants back in. I took a serial murdering electric blue African cichlid about an inch long and threw him into their tank. He'd killed everything in a 55 tank over a weekend when we were gone. It was either that or burial by sea. The huge Oscars never ate him! They grew, he grew but they never ate him. He was, however, exceedingly polite.

The lonely mans fish. Lol!... good catch with the color shift. Very cool!

Hook is one of the best looking Oscars, and a perfect example for this video. Good job Joe

Thank you for making this video! Ive recently purchased a Tiger Oscar, and found this video to be incredibly helpful in caring for my new fish.

*is everything okay, joey? i feel like youre going through something right now thats personal so obviously youre not going to bring it up etc, but i hope youre okay & ill pray for you. dont forget to pray yourself, as well. just the vibe im getting. could be wrong, but oh well. thanks for the quality videos. i love them.*

I had 2 red Oscars for many years and they were like a couple of little dogs to me because they were so intelligent and friendly. I could handle them and they enjoyed it. They used to love bulldozing all the gravel in the tank from one end to the other. Sometimes when they were naughty they would smash the tank lights . I ended up with 16 tanks with many different species just like yourself. I love your red discuss also and appreciate all your work and vids mate. Take care.😆 Regards. ....Kingi

I've had my first Oscar which was a Tiger Oscar for 15 years. When he died I honestly cried for three days because him and I had a bond that was beautiful. Over the years I've had more Oscars but personally I think there wouldn't be another Oscar as cool as my first one.

@Floodedaquatics

5 жыл бұрын

thats how a good fish keeper is supposed to lose fish. Of old age. thats respectable. not giving up your fish because you think you can get more clicks and views with a different kind.

@marcuskelly7051

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Smith I also had an albino Oscar that was over ten years old and it recently died a few months ago. I finally got around to getting a new baby for the tank.👍

@alerixv

5 жыл бұрын

@@Floodedaquatics He's always been open about cycling his fish and re-homing them to great homes when he does so. Just stop man, its actually pathetic how dedicated you are to hating.

@Floodedaquatics

5 жыл бұрын

@@alerixv and how pathetic you dont see the hypocrisy of your own comment. hating on me for having an opinion on how someone treats his fish. Just stop man, you dont look very smart. And giving fish back to a petshop isnt re-homing FYI.

My Oscar just turned 7 years old two weeks ago( since I’ve gotten him) he has a lot of personality. He hates when the heater light comes on indicating it’s on (it usually turns on at night) he also loves his log and anytime I sleep with the lights on he always watches me sleep. I have him in a 75 gallon. The people I got him from didn’t treat him well, you could tell by all the scratches and he does have hole in the head. I took him to the vet at the beginning of this year and they said this would probably be his last year but he’s still healthy and being a brat haha. I recommend getting an Oscar if you’re a busy person because they don’t require much maintenance given you have the right equipment. They’re always happy to see you when you get home and they’re so fun to watch.

@charlesmartel8446

5 жыл бұрын

Hello, i was wondering if it is possible to keep just one oscar fish in my 90 gallon tank. Can i keep just one? Or will it get lonely?

@ballsdeep994u

5 жыл бұрын

Your lack of maintenance, as you put it, is probably why he has hole in the head.

@Tidepodss

5 жыл бұрын

Balls Deep he had hole in the head when I got him and it was really bad, it’s a lot better now. When I first got him he would just lay on the bottom of the tank. After few weeks of medication and a bunch of water changes he started eating again and swimming around. I have a pretty good canister filter so the water is crystal clear and I do constant PH checks just to make sure.

@ballsdeep994u

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tidepodss some advice..... keep your canister filters pretty clean. Canisters are known nitrate traps and high nitrates can cause hole in the head amongst other things. Also, pH doesn't really matter. Fish adapt to pH.

@Tidepodss

5 жыл бұрын

Balls Deep okay, thank you for the advice. I’ll go get them changed and keep a closer eye on them! (:

So cool to finally see you with an Oscar. It’s the fish I’ve been keeping since I started in the hobby back in 1995. Greatest fish in the hobby if you can provide the proper conditions!

Interesting.I m not a Oscar keeper.But I love species profiles just to learn about other fish species and why people love them. Thanks again for another great teaching video Joey.I now kind of understand why you love Oscars.

Not a fish for me due to the extra work, bland tank, possible problems with them getting on with other fish etc. But they are beautiful. It was great hearing all about them and getting a real close look at Hook. That colour change was amazing! They have lovely faces and yes, great eyes! I hope you're going to do this with all the fish in the gallery - REALLY interesting and able to spend one whole video appreciating just one type of fish. Thanks Joey x

Mine change colors like a mood ring. They also will play with a ping pong ball. For substrate I use giant marbles (too big to swallow) and they like to move them around the tank.

That tank background is awesome! I want one!

Your videos are always so informative and fun to watch...keep posting and thanks for the upload.

Hooks coloring matches the tank backdrop very very well. Beautiful! I was writing the first part of this message while you were showing off the color change so I went back and WOW, I've never seen anything so drastic like that.

Definitely one of the best fish in the hobby , great looking tank 👌🏻

Today I went to a family owned pet store and found bucktooth tetras!!! Please do a videos on how to care for these! I really really REALLY wanna get them

@kerrypitt9789

5 жыл бұрын

I think he has one, they go by their Latin name but I am pretty sure Joey has had them on a video and his friend Rachel O'Leary has also. Man those little buggers are crazy when food hits the water.

Thank you for the closed caption, it really helps when I am taking notes. Keep up the great work!!!

My favourite fish. Planning on getting one again soon. A well timed and very informative video. Thank you.

please do a species spotlight on flowerhorns. Since I fell in love with Frank, have noticed myself looking at other lobbyists channels who have a flowerhorn. The size bubble on the top of the male's head I noticed vary. Thanks

In my job I’m allowed to refuse a fish sale, I always ask the tank size, experience level, and if they refuse to buy the required stuff for the fish,etc. the looks I get from the customers are hilarious, people always want to put a oranda goldfish in a little fish bowl.

@mushlove6933

5 жыл бұрын

akira ziehl good job then, “pet sellers” should be allowed and obligated to ask the buyers these questions!

@akiraz3493

5 жыл бұрын

mushlove thanks, pet care workers should be the first line of defense but sadly some pet care people don’t research or even care. Especially small petstores(not saying all of them are even bad)

@TheFishBeast

5 жыл бұрын

Refreshing to hear that! I’m guessing you don’t work for a big box pet chain!

@akiraz3493

5 жыл бұрын

The Fish Beast I work for petsmart, i know all the bad things with petsmart in the media; but honestly half of the stuff on petsmart isn’t true; but it honestly depends on location, at some point I want to have my own pet store.

Cool how the fish blends into the backgound and black substrate. Nice! Another 👍🏾

Bring back so much memories! Used to ride 3kms to LFS on my push bike when I was about 14! Remember picking up 3 tiger Oscars in the rain placing the bag on my handle bars. Awesome days back then. Thanks Joey

Beautiful Oscar! After I graduate from college, forget the idea of starting a family, it’s Oscar time! Can you do more, “How to raise/care for. . . “ videos. I really like them. :3

Thank you for doing this video! I have two tiger oscars of my own and I absolutely love them! Also I'm doing a speech on Oscars in my com 101 class next week.

Thanks for the camera/video perspective. You get a better idea on just how big your tanks are! Great Video!

That's a stunning Captain!!! 😄 YES!! More videos like this, especially about Arowanas 🙏

FRANK, OH FRANK, WHERE ARE YOU FRANK...COME HERE FRANK !!! Joey..........Where is FRANK ???

@juliekovacic

5 жыл бұрын

I think Frank should show up in every video...similar to how Alfred Hitchcock showed up in every one of his own films :)

@capearson4522

5 жыл бұрын

@@juliekovacic that's a great idea ! I'm beginning to think Joey is getting jealous either that or something happened to FRANK and Joey hasn't fessed up. All I know is FRANK deserves to be back in the gallery rack and not that temperamental crankypants wanna be.

Hey Joey, where is Frank? the last 3 vids You have done and walked thru the gallery I see Franks tank is dark.. Where did Frank and his wife go?

I'd love to see more feature fish videos, this was great! Hook is looking amazing, that colour change insane!

i had a tiger oscar when i was little and he was amazing. now i recently brought home a lutino lemon tiger oscar who's the most beautiful active and coolest fish ever! definitely my favorite species

will riot if there’s no sighting of frank in the next video

❤️ Thank you Joey for featuring the Oscar.. Calcium. I find food with calcium prevents and even cures hole in the head without using any medication. I feed mine hikari and market prawns (shell on) and I'm in on this one with Rachel O'leary, no terrestrial meats 😁

Great video and awesome Red Oscar and setup!! Reminds me of my old red. At full maturity, their body will turn into an even more solid orange color and they look absolutely amazing.

I love how Hook's coppery colour is echoed in the 3D decoration in his tank. Very pretty set up altogether.

Do about flowerhorn

I got no friends... I got an Oscar today 🙂

Great video! Loved the species spotlight definitely want to see more!

i love your videos! you are a huge inspiration in the hobby for me. i was keeping just an oscar and a couple cichleds and now i have an oscar tank, an angelfish community tank with albino bristlenose plecos and blue and golden gourami. i even have a goldfish pond on my back porch! ive really been doing my research and been trying out a lot of different things. i also breed albino bristlenose plecos to pay for the hobby. i really love what you are doing. please keep up the good content as long as it makes you happy! i know ill always be here

One thing you forgot, FRANK. You forgot Frank. And I am worried.

@robbyjones9489

5 жыл бұрын

Sam Dunn same

LOVE your Oscar & tank!!! I have an Oscar named Big Boy!!! They are such character's with the BEST personalities!!!

@fabianrodriguez1876

4 жыл бұрын

That's so true my Oscars have such unique personalities

I've got two oscars in a 125 that are about 5-6 months old right now. They are the cutest little dudes, only 6 inches or so right now, but I love to watch them and they seem to enjoy watching me and following me about the room. They are such diva fish though - I tried giving them a homeade mix of whiting/raw shrimps (fat/protein), peas (fiber) and garlic (Vit C) bits in a gelatin suspension and you would not BELIEVE the dirty fish scowls I got! They pouted on the bottom of the tank until they got used to it. I've been working with them early to help them be hand-friendly for when I have to clean or work in the tank - they will often swim between my fingers or rub on my hands. They will even watch as I move their decorations to siphon and clean the tank, often coming right up to where I'm working.

The "lonley man's fish," LOL! When I was a kid they were always a novelty, especially around (goldfish) feeding time.

That head color change was crazy......had no idea oscars did that, and i had 1 oscar for about 6 yrs in a 90 gallon with 1 jack dempsey pal, may he rest in peace. He was a great pal. I adopted him from a friend who also had him for over 5 yrs so he lived till at least 10

I absolutely love oscars!! I have 2 that have outgrown their 75 gallon tank, I’m currently setting up a 150. They will let you pet them anytime you want and somehow these 2 little cichlids my daughter had to have has survived in the tank with them lol

@lindasmith1912

5 жыл бұрын

I think it really depends on the Oscar. Mind were really sweet but I knew a guy that had one that could not have ANYTHING in his tank. No airstone, no filter, no heater, no decor. He would attack the glass if you even looked at him and he bit his owner hard any chance he got. Cujo Oscar!

Yes! Doing a revamp on my oscar tank today. Thanks for the video Joey. Keep up the great work!

Watching this in front of my first aquarium! Life is good

Frank next please!!

Gorgeous Mr. Hook and great down-to-earth info, Joey! You're gonna make me come back into the hobby and build 1 or more tanks, if only for your enthusiasm en clear presentation. Still have to plan these things out well, since I'm living in an apartment and though there are some options for placing tanks, I'm going back and forth between building in place myself, or let a professional do it for me. Ah, making plans about beautiful fish.... Anyway, keep it up, always thoroughly enjoying your vids. Shout out from The Netherlands!

Do more of the spotlight. I enjoy these kind of videos. Excited what's your next fish you going to do a spotlight on!

How to care for flowerhorn next!!!!!! Please

Oscars, goldfish and betas, I would say are the most mistreated fish in the hobby. Along with all my other community aquariums, I rehome abused bettas ❤️

@mojibtemuri1902

5 жыл бұрын

Galatea bettas are definitely mistreated, how do you know if a betta is abused I am quite curious?

@galatea742

5 жыл бұрын

mojib temuri usually faded colours, torn and rotten fins are a good indicator too. A lot of mine come in missing bits of their fins and scales. when they have been kept in tiny bowls too.

Very nice video on a popular large and personable fish. Rachel absolutely loves hers although it has been sick. Thank you for pointing out that it needs a large bare tank. I think the moping is adorable as they tend to do when you disturb their environment.

Helpful and informative. Thanks!

oscars were some of my first bigger fish i got into in the hobby years ago back then not a whole lot of species of fish were avaiable unlike today

The Oscar greets it's master? Haha, no, the Oscar greets it's slave.

One of my favorite fish to have ever owned. That was good info to share.

Loved seeing the color change!

I just love that they'll eat anything. Guppies from my overstocked tank, "sure thing". Chopped baby carrots, "Why not". Pellets, "yummy". The other cichlids in the tank that doesn't fit in your mouth, "I wanna try at least!"

@Rotsuoy

5 жыл бұрын

That's so funny. My oscar is actually pretty picky. I've tried silver sides, tilapia, catfish, and shrimp, even peas and carrots, but he won't eat them. He prefers frozen bloodworms, cichlid pellets, dried krill, and some hikari gold carnivore pellets. Sometimes, just sometimes, I can get him to eat raw or partially cooked shrimp, but everything else he seems to spit out. I've never met a picky oscar before him. Ironically I finally got a food that my bichir loves but my oscar won't touch, so that's a plus for the bichir!

@belladonnaRoot

5 жыл бұрын

@@Rotsuoy I think you got a rare oscar there. Or maybe spoiled rotten lol. Then again, mine might have been odd for trying to eat literally everything that could fit in his mouth

@iz723

5 жыл бұрын

Mine ate my catfish lol. Just came home and it's tail was sticking out of his mouth. Looked so proud of it.

joey, what is that white spot in one his fins near his gills ? just curious ..

This is fantastic! I just picked up my first Oscar and I'm looking forward to this adventure!

That was an awesome color change you captured on camera and it is 100% fascinating. I can’t wait to watch my new albino tiger grow up and get that cool personality

I found that Oscars like most animals are more docile after they've been fed,and some will grab the tip of your finger and it doesn't really hurt....depending on the size of the Oscar though. And some will also come and lay in the palm of your hand...depending on what mood they are in I've never known a fish to do that! Which is another reason I love them they can be aggressive yes,but they also had their softer side to And the babies were always so cute! But grew fast!

@slickchick5811

3 жыл бұрын

My O grabbed my forearm like a ham sandwich and it hurt like hell.

What I love is the tank background is exactly the same colour!

Great video joey, can’t wait for the Tropheus special 👍👍👍

Keep these species videos coming! Beautiful tank btw

I also have a Oscar Cichlid. I just love oscars❤❤❤❤

I like how aware their eyes look. some fish just look like their staring into the distance, that oscar is always staring you down.

Super informative video. I’d like to see more of these. Maybe covering some beginner fish (neon tetras Amazon theme).

Thanks for the info, just got an albino oscar and I love it!!!

I wonder if Joey ever rolls up a fat one, sits in his gallery, dims the lights, and blazes that shiii.... you know, him being in Canada lol

Looks much better without the ship ;)

He's such a nice fish. Thanks for all the info great stuff.

I'm a goldfish guy but I always think about having some cichlids in the future and the oscars look pretty neat. This video was so helpful. Thanks.

When I got mine I was going to go with the traditional black and red Oscar the Tiger Oscar and then I saw some full-grown albinos and absolutely fell in love with the coloring so I purchased one in intended on getting another one and ran by something called a lemon Oscar it's white like an albino with actual like a orangish yellow tint to it beautiful fish

@sickman9124

2 жыл бұрын

I learned about Lemon oscars the other day and absolutely fell in love with their coloration

He changed color because he was intimidated by ur bicep 💪 Joey 😂 👍

I really liked this video it answered some of my questions I had about Oscars.

Love this Joey, please do more videos like this.

Do you have some kind of automatic water changer installed in that Oscar tank?

Third video in a row no Frank is he dead

Awesome video format! Please make more!

Love these fish, love this video! My favorite fish in the hobby !!

Could u do the Exodons next please

I've had an Oscar for almost 2 years now, still one of my favorites. He's a dickhead, but he's MY dickhead. I love this species of fish, thanks for this video. Chico thanks you too.

Plz make more vids like this. Really enjoyd it!

i thoroughly enjoyed this video. It had some great important pointers for someone like me who is just about to get my first oscar. I am so super excited and thrilled to know they are interactiveish and have a good life span. your dude is absolutely beautiful