I used to have an aquarium Shar, but we sold everything when we moved to Fla. and never did get another when we moved back. Had the typical, plako...2 glass cats (had them for years)...couple of angels, some tetras, a few snails that kept leaving the tank.....geezzzz....etc.....and that little scuba diver guy.....lol!

We tried the "live" plants for a while but I dunno......it seemed to get dirtier, faster than ever and the plako didn't really do his job very well when the live plants were in there. I got some really cool river rock and slate-like stones.....boiled them cause I actually got them from the river.....and some plastic plants that, if you didn't know they were plastic, looked so real. I set the tank up as if I were a fish and this is what I'd be swimming around if I were in a river or estuary. I changed the scenery often....thinking if I were a fish, how boring this same scene would be! LMAO!

I found the coolest, battery operated vaccum though. It worked great and I didn't have to empty the tank but once every 6 months. I prolly didn't have to do it that often even....but I wanted to. Oh....and it was only a 50 gallon tank. If you had oscars, yours must have been pretty big.

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