old silicon seals havoc

[jim&debbieloveoscars]

I had the old 55 gal I was up til two days ago using for 20 years. I noticed last week the silicon seals inside the tank were loose nearly to the edge of the inside of the tank. I quickly utilized my wife Debbie's Walmart discount to purchase a new 55 gallon and moved my oscar and his/her hardware supports into the new tank. I assume at some point in the near future the old tank would have just exploded which would have not made me happy.

I may reseal the old tank with new silicon and sell it, or maybe keep it for a spare.

I wanted to step up with this opportunity and get a 75 for the oscar but I just couldn't find one with the stand, lid, etc I could afford. I have plenty of filtration and have successfully kept oscars in a 55 before but I know they'd appreciate more room. I just hope this little oscar I have now doesn't grow into a tank buster, my last one was kind of smallish for an adult oscar and that helped.

[cichlidfish]

I'd recommend a 65gallon wide tank if you can find one. I had some of my oscars in one of those and they did quite well with it. I found the 55gallons, the 'long' version were just too narrow for a full grown oscar and they couldn't turn very nicely in them but the 65gallon that was shorter but deeper/wider they were quite happy in. Try to find used ones for cheap in recycler type newspapers classifieds etc, I actually got my 65gallon by trading someone for a huge on wheels computer server case.