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Fish Guy Mega Fish Posts: 1091 Kudos: 1254 Votes: 2 Registered: 28-Jan-2004	I was wondering what everyone is after feeding there oscar?
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
Mike R Fish Addict Posts: 593 Kudos: 830 Votes: 322 Registered: 27-Jul-2004	Cichlid pellets and crickets.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
victimizati0n Banned Posts: 1217 Kudos: 1105 Votes: 31 Registered: 29-Apr-2004	most people feed them pellets, or feeder guppys (which i have seen alot of people not liking that method)
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
terranova Fish Master Posts: 1984 Kudos: 1889 Votes: 229 Registered: 09-Jul-2003	Our oscars at work get fed live food everyday. Other than that I'd suggest a good brand of pellet food formulated for their size. -Formerly known as the Ferretfish
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
fish1 Banned Posts: 1727 Kudos: 1910 Votes: 58 Registered: 09-May-2004	Cichlid pellets, Earthworms, crickets, other fish, chicken make sure it has no seasonings. worms, brine shrimp, preferably frozen so the oscar can just eat the chunk. And anything else you can find that has some meat base in it.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
jester_fu Big Fish Posts: 395 Kudos: 522 Votes: 12 Registered: 26-Jan-2004	Ummm... i suggest you watch all this "meat" based food. Our aquariums are not the wild, and so the fish get a lot less exercise. Live and meat foods are generally called high energy foods. What happens when you eat more energy than you use? You either get sick or fat or polute your environment. I suggest that a good variety of pellet foods would be ideal. I use Nutrafin and Hikari Gold. I then suppliment my fishes diet with Peas (good treatment for HITH and also keeps them regular) and frozen "fish dinner" blocks. The fish dinner blocks are bloodworms and meal and other things like that, and they get them once a week (i call it their Sunday roast). As a treat, maybe every month or so, they get either some goldfish or molly's or some live worms or crickets. I like to pick 'feeder' fish that are fast and will make them work for their food, just like in the wild. Have a dig around on the web, but you will find Oscars prey on things that land on or hover just above the water by nature. So, if you give them treats like worms or crickets or peas etc, make them jump out of the water for it. I do, it's not only a great party trick, but it looks like good exercise for them! But don't forget that your tank is a lot smaller than a river, and so the diet of the fish needs to be different to keep them healthy. That generally means feeding them food suitable for the exercise they get and more vegetable based products.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
muadib1158 Hobbyist Posts: 57 Kudos: 14 Votes: 0 Registered: 28-Feb-2002	I typically intersperse some of the pellets that I used to feed to my plecos. He seems to really like them, and I would guess that they serve about the same role as peas and other veggie type products.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
freejoe Enthusiast Posts: 211 Kudos: 227 Votes: 756 Registered: 20-Aug-2003	frozen baby mice as well as the other stuff listed before The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an bacon and egg breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
justicerulesok Enthusiast Posts: 195 Kudos: 161 Votes: 2 Registered: 27-Jun-2004	river shrimp once a fortnight as a treat
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
Gem_07 Fingerling Posts: 19 Kudos: 10 Votes: 0 Registered: 22-Dec-2004	we feed outr frozen krill as a treat, and blood wormd, but they are still babys. also peas
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
Dempsey fan Mega Fish Posts: 915 Kudos: 201 Votes: 3 Registered: 02-Aug-2000	Hikari Gold pellets are always a good choice. As well as Krill and Beef Heart. Krill and Beef Heart are good choices for younger specimens. As the fish gets older and they slow down a bit, turn your focus to feeding primarily pelleted food.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02
ChileRelleno Small Fry Posts: 5 Kudos: 0 Votes: 0 Registered: 29-Dec-2004	Mine gets cichlid pellets, carnivore sticks, krill, freezedried/live earthworms, freezedried/live crickets, Algae wafers (stolen from our Plec), occasional feeders (if I'm 100% sure they are healthy), any insect unlucky enough to get itself caught as it regular diet. Because he's a juvenile we feed'em 3-5 times per day depending on the portion size at other meals. His prepared and freezedried foods get soaked in a vitamin supplement atleast once a day.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:02


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