Do Your Cichlids Do This?

[FBTgirl2]

Every since I got my 3 Oscars, well, They Sleep in a sense. I have read nothing that helps this. There water is tested every month, and such. No health indications, or anything. All 3 of them, sometimes at different times during the day, will lay at the bottom of the tank, as if dead, but will spring back to life if the glass is tapped on or feeding time. They are in a huge tank well over what they need. I am at a loss with them...

 

[kribensis12]

What size tank? How long have you had them? What size are they? Can you tell me what your EXACT water parameters are?

 

[FBTgirl2]

about 116-120 gallon.
About 2 years now.
About 8-9 inches for the 2 bigger ones and about 7 and a half inches for the smaller one.
Not at the moment.

 

[ox5477]

well get ready for the gang to jump on you, but I will say, that tank is not big enough usually for three individual oscars... if they are living happily without incident then I would say don't change anything, but usually, oscars are preferably kept as single individual or large groups in which a pair can be formed and then the rest of the oscars removed.... just an fyi

And dont worry, my JD does this a good amount during the day, and is much more active during the night when the lights are off.

Ox

 

[england]

agreed, and yes it is quite usual for oscars and other cichlids to do this, my mature cichlids do this, think it must be an oap thing, once they hit 1-1.5years old, before this they never stop moving, they then take on the spanish lifestyle, latin laid back

 

[shelaghfishface]

yes my day day does this, i was very worried when i first got him, as none of the others do, but i reckon hes just a chilled oscar ,hes soon up when he sees me walking by but having said that,its not often you find one so to have three do it is a bit strange, maybe they are having issues while the lights are out ( so to speak)
u must have one heck of a filter to cope with three of them??
and your stats would be??
120G isnt huge, or over what they need for 3 grown oscars at all

 

[FBTgirl2]

I do not think it was to big of a deal. I just wanted to know if your Oscars do this. They have done it since I got them at like 3 inches long.

 

[shelaghfishface]

I do not think it was to big of a deal.

not really an answer to that is there


if it was just "yes "no" answers you were after, then you chose the wrong subject

 

[ReMz]

about 116-120 gallon.
About 2 years now.
About 8-9 inches for the 2 bigger ones and about 7 and a half inches for the smaller one.
Not at the moment.

hmmm...

"about" sounds alarming.... you don't know your tank size?

2 years... and you don't have an oscar larger than 8-9 inches?

no water parameters....

"sleeping"....

I'm not going to jump into the majority here and be optimistic and cheery.

 

[foley69]

oscars lie on the bottom usually after feeding time as if to say am stuffed my uncles did this and also i asked if this was true in my LFS nd they said that it is so theres no worry its just them being bloated

 

[shelaghfishface]

oscars lie on the bottom usually after feeding time as if to say am stuffed my uncles did this and also i asked if this was true in my LFS nd they said that it is so theres no worry its just them being bloated

must be true then if the lfs told you

 

[foley69]

they didnt initially tell me my uncle told me but they agreed with this theory

 

[ReMz]

they didnt initially tell me my uncle told me but they agreed with this theory

mmm the almighty lfs. they never try to sell fish... they don't want money

well unless i have a freak of an oscar (i dont ), there is no such thing as laying on the bottom from being too full. unless the idiotic hoarder eats his normal feeding, some treats, an then devours 4 algae wafers that i'm trying to sneak in so the pleco has food . and he is back at his begging ritual after 20mins.

Lifetime story of an oscar:
Food?
FOOOD!
Food?
Food?
Food?
Food?
FOOD!!!
Food?
LOTS OF FOOD!!!!
*whoah... im kinda full...
FOOD?

very interesting fish, no?

 

[shelaghfishface]

sounds ridiculous,, but so so true

i think jambo just genuinley forgets that hes just been fed

 

[OscarWilde]

about 116-120 gallon.

That's absolutely fine for 3 Oscars IMO.