posted this over at the cichlid forums. project my girl and myself are doing, making a nice show tank for the living room for my 3 giant fishes http://www.cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1011728#1011728
yeah, those oscars are pretty awesome. we have one(used to be two) that's about 5-6 inches across. but out of all the fish we've had, this has been the smartest fish i've ever seen. nice work on the aquarium, looks great
cichlids are cool fish, I had one a long while back, you could hold the fish food above the water and it'll jump up and take it from your hand. It jumped though the lid out of the tank one night and dried up on the floor.
the smaller fish are called dithers, mainly to add a lil life to the aquarium and give the oscars some exercise, they are generaly too fast for the oscars to pose much of a threat to.. but ocasionaly one will go missing. but thats life!.