Oscar Diet

[ScottyNorq]

I feed my Oscar Hikari Gold medium pellots. That all I feed her. Can someone give me some choices on how to vary her diet without spending a whole lot of money?

[excuzzzeme]

Occasional pieces of a hot dog, frozen food such as beefheart, maybe a little frozen chicken liver etc. . . .

[rich311k]

Crickets, dried krill, earthworms (chopped if she is small)

[scott-kim]

Ya may wanna stay away from hotdogs, at least I would.

[lilim10]

No hotdogs...beefheart is good though (trimmed) Try not to feed anything greasy or oily or high in fat, these will not be digested well by your fish and will foul the tank.

[Cheapeeper]

Cut up cucumber into small pieces, frozen peas thawed, My oscar even likes frozen Broccoli thawed. Raw chicken liver cut into pieces.
There are many many healthy things to feed an Oscar without breaking the bank. Be creative.

[albyoscar]

bloodworms, brine shrimp, maket shrimp and crawfish . My oscar loves all the above but a lil too big for the brine shrimp now:D

[jri4]

I've done peas, cucumber and krill... even my pleco enjoyed the cucmber!

[Vicious_Fish]

I feed my O Hikari Cichlid Gold, shimp pellets, freeze-dried shrimp, thawed shrimp, earthworms, crickets, and the occasional feeder convict.

[Ruben Tolon]

Occasional pieces of a hot dog, frozen food such as beefheart, maybe a little frozen chicken liver etc. . . .

I'd stay away from anything that has mammal-based proteins to feed the oscars. A good occasional food is crickets

[Vicious_Fish]

If you're going to feed hotdogs, make sure they're the type that are made from turkey.

[alleykat0498]

Every time I restock on hikari for my o's I buy the big bag of cichlid staple and the lil bag of cichlid gold, I feed them staple for a few days straight until the little bag of gold will fit into the now less than full bag of staple. I figure this is like 2/3 staple 1/3 gold. (I feed alot) Then every now and then they get a piece of krill or the ocasional feeder (not store bought, from my convict grow out fry) tubifex worms, meal worms, crickets. You name it and they'll eat it but varied is always best, with a staple pellet diet.

[Ruben Tolon]

If you're going to feed hotdogs, make sure they're the type that are made from turkey.
I disagree, no type of hot dog is made from a meat source that an oscar is properly equipped to digest.

[Vicious_Fish]

Well I know a few people on MFK who feed their misc. SA & CA cichlids turkey hot dogs every now and then. It's the mammalian tissue that they have trouble digesting. Either way, I don't feed my fish hotdogs. :)

[Ruben Tolon]

Well I know a few people on MFK who feed their misc. SA & CA cichlids turkey hot dogs every now and then. It's the mammalian tissue that they have trouble digesting. Either way, I don't feed my fish hotdogs. :)

I don't feel comfortable with my fish eating turkey hots dogs though. I know people do it, but personally I can't imagine any kind of benefit from doing so

[Tongue33]

PEAS :D

[mostlycichlids]

A good staple food like NLS supplemented with live and frozen foods. Foods such as blood worms, earthworms, mealworms, and other such meaty foods is a good choice to supplement.