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ok i need......
-a fish that wont eat my guppies,plattys,swords,and white clouds.
-a fish that wont be eaten by my oscar for the little while he will be housed with.
-a fish that will fit into a 30 gallon tank
-cute
-preferably colorfull but could do with a drab color
-swimms all levels (preferably, could be bottom)
hmm i think thats about it

I would not house the oscer in there four even a little while. But the fish that came to my mind is a ram. Either blue, german, green, ect. Any of them i would choose.

they wont eat young gupps either?

Cichlids come to mind too. German and blue rams are very delicate and finiky with their water quality. I've heard bolivian rams are more hardy. Another cichlid that coul work are keyholes. Also, look in to the many dwarf cichlids, some beautiful ones in the Apistogramma genus.

However, I don't recommend housing these fish with an oscar. First things first, get your oscar his own tank. Then think about getting other fish.

what about aa rainbow shark, normal and albino?, my bf got a rainbow normal for his 10GALLON!!!!! grrrrr it also has a goramis sp? 3 zebra danaios, 3 neon tetras, 2 cory cats, and i think thats it, but now thats 4in+4.5in+3in+4in+5.9in=21.4in in a 10 gallon, poor fishys, i have to take the shark later anyway, and then im also grabbing my neons (2) and both my cats, they deserve a good 20 or 30 gallon dont u aggree?, all i have to do is talk him into getting his own tank so i can have mine BACK!!! i will try for a 29 with him, after i have taken what i wanted but his mom wants a pictus cat anyways, and if that happens and they want to give me the danios well *looks to oscar* oscar will be happy so i guess i just found my species, but will it go with the live berrers?

Not sure if you're concerned about fry or not but my German rams do eat platy fry.

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i cant find any rams anywhere the sound cute, but i guess i have to go with what i have avalible plus, i dont have to pay anything, and if it causes trouble then, well, i will sell it for tons more than i got it for because it will be bigger when that time comes, but i may fall in love with it and decide not to