Oscar (fish)

Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) is a large, relatively peaceful species of cichlid. It has a massive body, and makes a slow, majestic appearance but can be quite devastating to it's surroundings. While not a particularly aggressive cichlid, it will eat anything small enough to fit in its mouth and can quite easily be trained to eat from its owner's hand.

They have no spacific colors but they have different patterns there are tiger,black,albino,zebra,red,and fire red.

It's peaceful demeanor and quite attractive coloring makes it a popular fish with aquarists.

In the wild it lives in rivers in the area from Venezuela and along the east coast of South America down to Paraguay. Maximum size is 12-13 inches.

Good tank mates can be most of the larger new world cichlids.