More than thirty years ago my brother and I were trying to get started breeding fish, and we had a lot of difficulties. We read a lot and listened to a lot of people talk about breeding fish. We got a lot of inaccurate information and advice from people who talked a lot about spawning fish that they had never spawned.

Eventually, we found a few people, who were breeding fish. We stopped trying to breed the fish we had, and started copying the breeding techniques of the people, who we could see were actually breeding fish. It worked, and we we got started breeding fish. Eventually we bred many many species and raised rather large numbers of fish. In our minds we succeeded in breeding fish.

For example, early on we spawned Convict Cichlids, and really learned a lot about spawning them and about how to raise the babies. Click here to read about breeding Convict Cichlids.

I met a man who regularly spawned Oscars and sold young Oscars to fish retailers and wholesalers. Click here to read about that. At that time I did not feel that it would be fair to copy his techniques for breeding Oscars and compete with him. It would have been legal to do it, but it didn't seem fair. I discussed it with my father. He agreed with me and encouraged me to breed some similar fish.

I did, and I never came back to trying to breed Oscars. But I know that it takes a very big aquarium with at least 150 gallons of water to house a mature breeding pair of Oscars.

It sounds like your Oscars may be getting ready to spawn, but it is very difficult to tell, since I haven't even seen your fish, and again I haven't spawned Oscars either.

If your Oscars do spawn, please write us a report, or if someone else has spawned Oscars and wants to answer your question, then I'll post their comments here. Good luck with your fish.

Incidentally I went to Google and searched for "Breeding Oscars" and got a huge number of links. Click here to see the results of my search. so it looks like there is lots of information available.