OSCAR

HEY guys welcome to my blog of learn an animal everyday, i will introduce different kinds of interesting animals to you all everyday and hope you enjoy it. Without wasting any time lets talk about our special guest today which is ''Oscar".as everyone knows the oscar award is giving to those who deserve it and our the one and only great actor ''Leonardo DiCaprio'' had finally won the best actor award, but today we are not going to talk about that ''oscar'' award but ''oscar'' which is a kind of fish breeds which has quite scary face....

So this is how an ''oscar'' fish looks like, please comment in the comment box what you feel about this fish..

The ''Oscar'' (Astronotus ocellatus) is a species of fish from the cichlid family known under a variety of common names, including tiger oscar, velvet cichlid, and marble cichlid In South America, where the species naturally resides, A. ocellatus specimens are often found for sale as a food fish in the local markets. The fish has been introduced to other areas, including China, Australia, and the United States. It is considered a popular aquarium fish in the U.S. 

oscar fish in the aquarium

A. ocellatus examples have been reported to grow to about 45 cm (18 in) in length and 1.6 kilograms (3.5 lb) in weight.It is about the weight of three pack of sugar packs. The wild-caught forms of the species are typically darkly coloured with yellow-ringed spots or ocelli on the caudal peduncle and on the dorsal fin. These ocelli have been suggested to function to limit fin-nipping by piranha (Serrasalmus spp.), which co-occur with A. ocellatus in its natural environment. The species is also able to rapidly alter its colouration, a trait which facilitates ritualised territorial and combat behaviours amongst conspecifics. Juvenile oscars have a different colouration from adults, and are striped with white and orange wavy bands and have spotted heads.

It really looks scary and ugly to me

Like all other fish oscar fish can be feed with crayfish, worms, and insects (such as flies, crickets and grasshoppers) and by giving it live foods may help in increase the growth rate and it may cause endoparasites.Since these fish eat fruit in the wild, items such as melons, oranges, and other fruits can also be used as a type of food. Just about anything that falls into the water would be eaten by oscars. Live feeder fish can be given, but fish such as goldfish and rosy red feeder minnows should not be fed. These contain an enzyme (thiaminase) within their flesh which binds vitamin B₁, leading to deficiency. Most fish eaten by A. ocellatus in the wild are relatively sedentary catfish, including Bunocephalus, Rineloricaria, and Ochmacanthus species. The species uses a suction mechanism to capture prey, and has been reported to exhibit "laying-on-side" death mimicry in a similar fashion toParachromis friedrichsthalii and Nimbochromis livingstonii. The species also has an absolute requirement for vitamin C, and develops health problems in its absence. 

HERE is a video on feeding the oscar fish......

A number of ornamental varieties of A. ocellatus have been developed for the aquarium industry. These include forms with greater intensity and quantities of red marbling across the body, albino, leucistic, and xanthistic forms. A. ocellatus with marbled patches of red pigmentation are sold as red tiger oscars, while those strains with mainly red colouration of the flanks are frequently sold under the trade name of red oscars. The patterning of red pigment differs between individuals; in the United Kingdom, one A. ocellatus reportedly had markings that resembled the Arabic word for "Allah". In recent years long-finned varieties have also been developed. The species is also occasionally artificially coloured by a process known as painting.

A leucistic long-finned oscar

YOU CAN CHECK ABOUT PAINTED FISH HERE...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_fish

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