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bloodworms are good! frozen or live! i think that its pretty cool you feed your oscar mice!

Jason you have a good point, and I have to get more on the water changes myself in the 90 gal. So I'll do a large water change.

The Amazon Nut...

By larger predatory cichlids they probably mean Peacock Basses. If the fish will eat other foods, feed them other foods. Live foods are cheaper, disease-ridden (IME), and are not nutritionally complete.

My brother fed his piranha's goldfish whilst he had them and the never had hole in the head or ich. I will be feeding my fish goldfish and others when he gets bigger, he has already had guppies. I dont know why people get so angry with talk of live food, is no different to eating cows, or pigs. or fish eating blood worms. You may say thats why they're there, but i see goldfish are there for food.

Jason: My mate has got loads of guppies because he works at my LFS, and if he ever leaves them to breed, instead of feeding them to his oscar, then i'll be taking some off him.
In reply to whoever said about the baby mice, i'm going to town tommorrow to check that out, how big was our oscar when he had his first FROZEN mouse?

DAve




[span class="edited"][Edited by garbutt_dave 2004-07-09 11:54][/span]

[span class="edited"][Edited by Lindy 2004-07-09 21:51][/span]

The oscar doesn't care whether it gets live food or not, it is simply your own personal excuse to satisfy a need for violence a gore.

That's not always true. I've read a few different books by highly respected experts in the field that recommend feeding live foods, including live fish, occasionally to larger, predatory CA/SA cichlids.

If you do choose to do so, I'd recommend feeding livebearers and breeding them yourself to ensure there will be no diseases introduced to your tank.

Jason

Don't feed goldfish! You wouldn't want it to get ich and HITH, would you? Besides, it is not fair for the goldfish. The oscar doesn't care whether it gets live food or not, it is simply your own personal excuse to satisfy a need for violence a gore.

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feed them feeder goldfish it mad watch the goldfish get hammered

I wnat him aggresive to the state where he will kill live food.

Why would you want aggression? You WANT to have your fingers bitten? Sometimes using the low-protein trick can enable you to effectively keep them with fish such as neon tetras. Foods like Cichlid Staple and TLC will result in a better Oscar, or so I have read.

Really, that's like buying a Red-tailed Ctafish in hopes that will will drag you underwater and break your arm when it grows up. Or are you purposely trying to lose money and the decor and equipment that the Oscar breaks?

[span class="edited"][Edited by TheGoldenDojo 2004-07-08 13:28][/span]

Hey
You can buy yhtme from ret smart and other places like a i had to feed my snake them but i only got the frozen ones but you have to wait until they have defrosted

dempsey, im intrested in feeding my oscar things like mice, where can you buy them, a pet shop? are they cheap?

Thanks for other peoples advice and i'll try peas tonight. My oscar is still scared of me because ive had to move other fish around him, but he is becoming more confident and im teaching him that when i tap the tank its feeeding time, its working a bit.

Dave

hey,
I got an oscar off my brother a few weeks back and i feed him: hakari gold and specialty mix of floating sinking pellets, everyday.
on also feed him: prawns,cockroaches (pet ones), guppies, bloodworm and daphnia, every now and then.
I've tried feeding worms but he doesnt like them.
I was wondering what other food people feed their oscars regulary and what else you feed them occasionly. or anyother food that you may think would be good for them?
Also has anyone made their own frozen food or dry food?

Thanks in Advance

David.

Try Peas. My boys love them... and it helps keep them regular! Like they need to poop more! Get frozen peas, shell them while still frozen and break them in half. Feed him half at a time until he's had his fill. It's good for HITH (which i think i've already mention in a previous post) as well as the fact they just seem to love them. Mine will jump out of the water at my fingers to get them. They don't do that for any pre-packaged food!

I feed my oscars frozen baby pink mice or real baby mice

I've heard of a few people that feed their larger new world cichlids baby pink mice. It's probably not as uncommon or unheard of as you might think.

Jason

This may anger some members but I feed my oscars frozen baby pink mice or real baby mice and it gets real challenge for them and they fight over them... believe me! tug-a-war

low protein like what?! i want aggresion.

Sounds like a nice fish. Feeding lower prtoein foods will actually lower the Oscar's aggression when at adulthood.

Ive tried dry krill and he doesnt like it, i'll see if he takes to some frozen krill, my LFS is nice and let me take a block to my oscar and see what food he likes before i buy the whole pack !
Live mealworms? are they those browny coloured worms that are fed to geckos and water dragons? and do they live for long in the water and will they try and bury in the gravel?
Does beef heart bring out his colour i know it does excelently in piranha.

Malawi Freak: he is about 3-4 inches and he's BEATIFUL tiger oscar a real bargain at 10.

have you tried beef heart.

Hikari Cihclid Gold is good. Try live mealworms.