oscars color

Question
i am a new oscar fish owner. i have had mine for a month, he is an albino and he was a pale blue with orange markings. i have just noticed that he has a few pale Black spots on his body and  the outer edge or his fins are turning black is this normal. we feed him color enhancing pellets once a day and also give him rosies and crickets daily. he shares the tank with a spotted cat fish.

Answer
Hi Brandi,
This is normal, oscars do change colour a little while growing.  The more you vary his food, the healthier, and prettier he will be.
Here is a list of foods that the Oscar should have:
A good quality flake
A good quality pellet
Frozen veggies bought at the market, and blanched, then cooled.  (Peas, green beans, broccoli, carrots)
Spinach, and leafy lettuce
Earth worms bought at your bait store, and cleaned.  ( To clean the earthworms put them in oats for about a week)  Buy them at the bait store so you will be sure there are no pesticides in them.
Minnows, bought at your bait store.  (Buy the regular kind)
Crickets bought at the Pet Store
Frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp, Plankton found at your pet store
Frozen fish, that you unfreeze before feeding this to your Oscar.  Fish that you find at your market which is frozen, and comes from lakes, and rivers, never from salt water, only rivers, and lakes.
Bananas, and Mangoes, now, and then.  No citrus fruit.
Never feed him feeder fish.  These fish have no nutritional value, and are almost always full of disease.
I would also like to mention that Oscars need at least 55 gallon tanks to grow.  If they do not have this space, their growth is stunted, and their internal organs have no place to grow.  They die a horrible death.  I just thought I would mention this.  Many people don't know, and vendors do not tell them.  When they discover what is wrong, it is often too late.
Oscars make wonderful pets, I know you will enjoy yours.
Lynda