View Full Version : Poll: What do you feed your Oscar?
farli
09-15-2003, 11:52 AM
I am just curious to see what others put...I have been told several differant things like beef heart, crickets, live fish, worms, and of course pellets...My oscars only eat pellets for about 3-5 days in a row...I get them something out of the ordinary, like crickets (mine go crazy for it...I don't understand thier fasination...yuk!) and even more rare, feeder fish...What do you feed yours?
LindaD
09-15-2003, 1:46 PM
I rotate different foods along with pellets. The pellets are his staple diet though.
Hikari Cichlid Staple
Nutrafin Floating Cichlid Sticks
Nutrafin Max Sinking Food Tablets
Shrimp pellets
Crickets
Earthworms
Turkey heart and liver
Beefheart
Cocktail shrimp
Algae Wafers
Veggies.. Peas, Corn and Carrots.
Sinking Carnivore Tablets. (Meant for the Pictus but he likes them too.. lol)
Not to mention any flys or bugs found around the house.. depending on what they are.
I don't use feeders.. IF I raised them myself maybe. But I think there are better foods to use instead. Like Earthworms. My oscar goes nuts over them.
stoopid
09-15-2003, 1:53 PM
Originally posted by LindaD
Hikari Cichlid Staple
Nutrafin Floating Cichlid Sticks
Nutrafin Max Sinking Food Tablets
Shrimp pellets
Crickets
Earthworms
Turkey heart and liver
Beefheart
Cocktail shrimp
Algae Wafers
Veggies.. Peas, Corn and Carrots.
Sinking Carnivore Tablets. (Meant for the Pictus but he likes them too.. lol)
Not to mention any flys or bugs found around the house.. depending on what they are.
... Kitchen Sink...
:p
No, really, it's good for their diet! :cool:
I feed mine 5 differant kinds of pellets...Hikari Cichlid Staple Large pellets, Wardleys Cichlid Floating Pellets, Hikari Cichlid Gold Medium pellets, HBH Oscar Grow, and Life Science System Bio-Blend...but my oscars LOVE to eat things that move...I even tried mealworms...they didn't want to eat them at first, but then the mealworm squirmed and they gobbled them up... Crickets...omg...they go crazy and try to jump out when they see the bag...i haven't tried much else, because i have a horribly dirty oscar...if i pretend not to look she doesn't lose much out of her mouth...but if i do watch her, she makes the biggest mess in the world....she does it on purpose...cuz then i clean the tank and she likes to bite my fingers while i have the siphen tube going... I love her sooo much...
Oscar_Mania
10-08-2003, 5:32 PM
I just got my Oscar and so far I have fed him pellets and a couple of the defective offspring of my dad's fish.
mickey
10-08-2003, 5:37 PM
Originally posted by LindaD
I rotate different foods along with pellets. The pellets are his staple diet though.
Hikari Cichlid Staple
Nutrafin Floating Cichlid Sticks
Nutrafin Max Sinking Food Tablets
Shrimp pellets
Crickets
Earthworms
Turkey heart and liver
Beefheart
Cocktail shrimp
Algae Wafers
Veggies.. Peas, Corn and Carrots.
Sinking Carnivore Tablets. (Meant for the Pictus but he likes them too.. lol)
Not to mention any flys or bugs found around the house.. depending on what they are.
I don't use feeders.. IF I raised them myself maybe. But I think there are better foods to use instead. Like Earthworms. My oscar goes nuts over them.
Now that's what i call a varied diet,
your oscars certainly won't get bored
at feeding time in your house.
CHEERS.
pharoh08
10-08-2003, 8:35 PM
i dont got mine anymore but they loved lettuce and cheap aquarium plants, o any crayfish or ghost shrimp , off course take the clwas off the crayfish
Oscar_Wild
10-09-2003, 8:44 AM
I leave the claws on the crawfish. My Oscar eats them too.
Verse914
10-09-2003, 10:00 AM
I dont have mine anymore either, but I fed him
hikari gold pellets
beefheart
brine shrimp
earthworms
crickets
I used to load my oscars' diets with protein (crickets/frozen blood worms or brine shrimp) but finally got them to take pellets as their staple. They go nuts for them. I switch between cichlid gold and cichlid bio-gold. Then they get a few pieces of freeze-dried krill and some live blood worms. They even eat the worms right off the fork! :)
I did offer them a bite of my cream cheese pocket yesterday but they just stared at it. ;)
stik6shift98
10-12-2003, 2:12 PM
mine eat goldfish and pellets
Slappy*McFish
10-12-2003, 4:50 PM
When I was keeping Oscars, I noticed they went crazy over frozen squid...just thought I'd add that bit of info.
Crickets, earthworms, and Cichlid pellets were their main food, though I also occasionally fed them krill, prawns, silversides, beef heart, and even moths that I had caught from the front porch light..:D ..it was a hoot watching them chase down the moths fluttering around on the surface.
AquaticEnt
10-13-2003, 10:46 AM
My oscars are current;y being grown out, so some of the bigger foods are out, but here's a sample of what they get fed (one is about 5", one aout 3.5"):
Hikari Gold cichlid pellets
Hikari cichlid pellets
New Life spectrum pellets
OSI spirulina pellets
Omega One cichlid pellets
Wardley Sinking shrimp pellets
Hikari Bio-PureFD krill
frozen SFB krill
fresh cocktail shrimp
fresh squid
peas
convict fry
guppy fry
They're growing well and putting on about an inch per month.
ClimbAZ527
10-13-2003, 9:29 PM
I bud of mine use to feed his oscars very tiny mice.
dbcb314
10-13-2003, 10:31 PM
Originally posted by ClimbAZ527
I bud of mine use to feed his oscars very tiny mice.
my friend feeds his pinky mice aka baby mice. he really feeds the arowana them, but the oscars eat them also.
myersrj40
10-15-2003, 6:20 PM
Originally posted by ClimbAZ527
I bud of mine use to feed his oscars very tiny mice.
Gotta love the baby mice, yumm..... Yea my Oscars loved those little bast*rds. Pretty entertaining also but too expensive!:D
mickey
10-16-2003, 4:04 PM
I don't think i would like to feed my fish mice,
(and it's not besause i have a soft spot for them
either, ugh! rodents, yuk,) bu do you guys
not think that there is a great danger of introducing
disease to your fish by doing so?
Cheers.
silver
10-16-2003, 10:19 PM
our oscar's staple is pellets but he also gets the ocassional insect (my grandmother is absolutely in love with the oscar and makes it a point to try to catch any buggies that stray into the house and toss them to the oscar) when our turtles had to be housed with him he used to get whatever veggies he could snatch out of their mouths too
we used to give him feeder fish too but that introduced too many diseases-(the last time we fed feeders it led to an explosion of ich and it killed our ancient [not to mention huge] pleco )-considering breeding my own so I know they'll be healthy
btw: are there any bugs that shouldn't be fed to the fish?
hle_81
10-16-2003, 10:39 PM
pellets, cocktail shrimp, beef heart, crickets, earthworms
everything ocasionaly but dail the big orange stcks from wal mart
"jumbo min"
they get fish big in no time!:D