Poll: What do you feed your Oscar?
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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..
..it was a hoot watching them chase down the moths fluttering around on the surface.
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..
..it was a hoot watching them chase down the moths fluttering around on the surface.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.
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.
my friend feeds his pinky mice aka baby mice. he really feeds the arowana them, but the oscars eat them also.
Gotta love the baby mice, yumm..... Yea my Oscars loved those little bast*rds. Pretty entertaining also but too expensive!
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.
(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.
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?
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?
everything ocasionaly but dail the big orange stcks from wal mart
"jumbo min"
they get fish big in no time!
"jumbo min"
they get fish big in no time!
