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When OSCARS Attack
I've told you all I have an oscar. I have an oscar that thinks it's a friggin pirahnah. I am scared of this fish. I shouldn't be, but I am.
Don't get me wrong, I like the fish plenty. I just think he is blood thirsty. All it EVER wants to do is eat. It has a bottemless pit for a stomach. I do not enjoy feeding time for this fish. *which is about 3-5 times a day* It grabs my fingers on a regular basis. Now before you go "uh..dumb shit, don't stick your fingers in the water." I do NOT stick my fingers in the water. They are about 3-5 inches above the water surface.
I was getting ready for work on thursday doing my usual rounds, then I looked at the tank and realized I have not fed that fish yet. *OH DREAD!* So, I go over to the tank, and the fish greets me like he normally does by comming out and starting to pick at the water surface. I open the lid, and bend over to feed the fish, when the fucker JUMPS OUT of the water, bounces off my chin and falls to the carpet. *This is when I let out a shriek of terror and start jumping up and down like an idiot. * This is over a fish that is only 2 inches long mind you. The entire time, Scott is thinking I'm yelling at him for no reason.
Good thing I had a washcloth nearby that I use to dust the top of the tank off. All this time the fish is STILL flopping on the carpet, and now has cat hair all over it. So I slap the washcloth down on the fish and chuck it back in the tank. *The fish was not happy. He was pissed off, and hung out at the back of his tank for quite a while wondering WHY there was NO WATER on the outside of his tank*.
At this point, it did not look like a fish. It was a big dust ball hanging out at the back of the tank. I just closed the lid and headed out for work. Damn fish, if he wants to die like a kamikaze pilot so be it.
I come home and he is alive, no longer looking like some water logged dust bunny. It wants to eat.
ROTFLMAOPIMP @ Ellen and "the terror from the deep". Maybe you should let Ted stand guard when you feed that killer oscar.
Posted by: Pat on March 16, 2002 06:14 PMI have two oscar fish together in a 52 gallen tank. one of them seems sick. once before it jumped out of the water and onto the floor. it is still growing but it seems that something is wrong with it. it only comes up to eat and then it ges back down and rest. What could be possible wrong witt it>
Posted by: Patrice jennings on December 28, 2003 01:51 AMi had an oscar do the same thing and come to find out, it had a brain parasite that can be verey deadly
Posted by: steven on February 23, 2004 09:05 PMOMG I rescued an oscar that was pretty torn up, and brought him home a couple of weeks ago. I am still getting used to him and all, but I am pretty scared of him. Just like 15 min. ago I heard a funny noise.. I went into the living room and the thing jumped out of the tank and was laying on my living room floor! Needless to say.. I freaked out! My heart is still in my throat! He look a little hurt, but could be worse he fell like at least 5 1/2 feet! Why did he do that and will he be okay you think? please email me if you have any advice other than putting something heavy on my lid...
Posted by: Jennifer on May 24, 2004 04:04 AMFrom what I've heard, Oscars are really clever fish, much too clever for their own good. Their big problem is that their little fish brains are wired up so they constantly feel as if they are starving. So, once they figure out that the fish food you dole out to them (so that they don't literally choke themselves to death trying to eat it all at once) is kept outside their fish tank, they start looking for ways to get out there, and most eventually manage to find one.
The ones that survive their first attempt to go looking for your secret stash of food seldom try to jump out again, at least until they forget that there wasn't any water out there.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on May 25, 2004 12:57 AMWOW.. This is hilarious. I am glad I am not the only person that it happened to. I have a tiger oscar and was showing some students how it would jump out of the tank at the food I have in my hand. Normally, he would never jump out, just straight up. Then after several times, he got the wrong angle jumped out of the blasted tank. Needless to say, i never did it again and put a cover on the tank. He still tries to jump out daily. Bangs his head up on the grill. Crazy fish.
Posted by: Shawty on April 3, 2008 09:43 PMWOW.. This is hilarious. I am glad I am not the only person that it happened to. I have a tiger oscar and was showing some students how it would jump out of the tank at the food I have in my hand. Normally, he would never jump out, just straight up. Then after several times, he got the wrong angle jumped out of the blasted tank. Needless to say, i never did it again and put a cover on the tank. He still tries to jump out daily. Bangs his head up on the grill. Crazy fish.
Posted by: Shawty on April 3, 2008 09:43 PMMy Oscar is a good solid 10 lbs. and he jumped out and flopped like into a dish of salad I had on my coffee table crazy bit me twice and today it's fine. They are wired like Pitt-Bulls. Don't feed them the cubes frozen they expand in the gut and kill um dead, let them melt first...
also mine are mating and they get so wired to a patch they move all the gravel and cave alot. Don't go near the caves they will go insane.
Ed