On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:00:03 -0400, "NetMax"
wrote:

Between all of us, we have probably visited 100s of petshops, perhaps
1000s of times, and overheard comments which made our ears go red. Does
anyone have any favourites?

- and of course the perennial classic:
"Oscars are fine in a community tank".

;~)
Oscars are perfectly fine in a community tank as these people have
told you. The size of Oscars in the stores is usually around 1 1/2
inches or so. These Oscars can be put into any community tank you want
to, as long as you don't have itsy-bitsy neons or other extremely
small fish. Of course, the Oscars will be 4-5 inches in a few short
months, so then in the vast majority of community tank situations they
or other fish will have to be moved somewhere else. This is probably
the type of info which LFS kids are not giving their customers. The
times that I've owned Oscars I've always put them in the community
tank with my other fish and never had any problems with it -- the
first months! I had plans made to do something else with them or the
other fish when the Oscars got larger.

-Derek