Chicken liver fed to my Oscar

Hmm. Personally, we use beefheart. Never had a problem with it (besides the fact that the piranhas prefer other food over it). There are betta breeders who use it quite often, especially for giant bettas. I've also heard of using liver, though I don't remember exactly what species it was from. Either way, these breeders haven't had any mammal meat related deaths, and neither have I (even when feeding beefheart as a staple for a few months), so, if you want to feed it, go for it.
 
my boyfriend just picked up a roasting chicken yesterday, chopped up the liver and heart, and tossed some into the 125. . . severums loved it, bichirs went nuts, the funniest part was seeing the honduran red point swimming around with a big chunk of red meat, trying to play 'keep away' with the others.
 
I have fed my Oscar bits of hot dogs as a treat. So now another war starts! I also feed him ants, flies, earthworms, beetles. . . . . . anything that crawls, creeps, or flies into our house is his snack. (Except spiders - which he won't eat).

I see nothing wrong with bits of chicken for a treat. The key here is "TREAT". Nothing was said about it being his mainstay. Some people need to get a grip on their lip and sense of reality.
 
excuzzzeme said:
I have fed my Oscar bits of hot dogs as a treat. So now another war starts! I also feed him ants, flies, earthworms, beetles. . . . . . anything that crawls, creeps, or flies into our house is his snack. (Except spiders - which he won't eat).

I see nothing wrong with bits of chicken for a treat. The key here is "TREAT". Nothing was said about it being his mainstay. Some people need to get a grip on their lip and sense of reality.
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I never thought of hotdogs. Granted, I wouldn't think of eating hotdogs myself... Though, I have fed a few kibbles of catfood before as a treat.
 
lol freaking posts crack me up. I never knew there were different feeds for different chickends and etc. Learn somen new everyday. I had an oscar when I was a kid and if you threw a cheerio in there he wouldn't eat it, BUt if you there a fruit loop in there he'd go nuts. And everyone knows cheerios are supposed to be better for you. My point is if the oscar likes it as a treat and it's not killing him? why not. McDonalds fatty foods is slowly killing me, doesn't stop me from eating a double cheese burger. Props to your oscar for eating chicken liver, he's a bigger man than I.
 
Hmmm. Now, I rather like chicken livers, sautees with some teriyaki sauce, salt, and pepper, but I have shied away from buying them because I'm the only one in my house that will eat them. After looking this thread over, though, I have a pair of bichirs (7" senagalus and 4" albino senagalus), and three fat, happy leopard ctenos (3 1/2 to 4"), who might like a bit of raw chicken liver every so often, say twice a week. That'd really help out both with the actual cost of food (as the frozen beefheart cubes ain't cheap, and I don't want to go through the mess and bother of chopping up a 2 lb beefheart in my kitchen), and with the accounting (as the chicken livers would be no less than half for me, half for the fish), so I wouln't necessarily have to put them on the books. (This, incidentally, is cheating at solitaire, as I am keeping a spreadsheet to try to break even on fish.)

And you can have my caffeine when you PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD FINGERS. YEEEEARGGHH!
 
wickedcichlid said:
A human liver can only process around 60 grams of protein a day and much over that can build up toxins in the body.
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I don't quite agree with you on this. Since my gastric bypass surgery, I work to get 80 grams of protein a day. Any less than that and my body starts to take it from my muscle mass. Competitive body builders are getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 200+ grams a day. If you take it more protein than you need it will build up in your adipose tissues as fat. There is also some concern of a nitrogen buildup in the body.

Here's a good website that lays out the whole process. http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Pre-Sma/Protein.html

Later,
Dave
 
Stidham said:
I don't quite agree with you on this. Since my gastric bypass surgery, I work to get 80 grams of protein a day. Any less than that and my body starts to take it from my muscle mass. Competitive body builders are getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 200+ grams a day. If you take it more protein than you need it will build up in your adipose tissues as fat. There is also some concern of a nitrogen buildup in the body.

Here's a good website that lays out the whole process. http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Pre-Sma/Protein.html

Later,
Dave
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To add another bit of info to this... There is proof that simply increasing your protein intake (for a normal person) can actually cause weight-loss. It naturally decreases the "I'm hungry" hormone or whatever it is, along with some other nifty things it does to help you loose weight.
 
I don't exactly find hotdogs to be all that great either. I was also told when I got the Oscar that he enjoys an occasional treat of them. Last time he had any was more than a month ago. I better tell him he shouldn't eat them as they are as bad for him as they are for me. LOL!

Going to have to try some chicken liver and see if he likes it. If not, no problem I will eat it or use it for catfish bait.
 
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