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I have 2 baby oscars both about 2.5 inches , i am keen to grow them on as quick as possible . i am currnetly feeding them mainly on hikari chilid gold with regular feedings of frozen bloodworm. . i know oscars will except a wide variety of foods, eg prawns peas etc but i dont want to feed these as my oscars wont fit them in their mouth. what else can i feed that is rich in protein but that my oscars will be able to eat.. any ideas appreciated

thank you
 
george4 said:
I have 2 baby oscars both about 2.5 inches , i am keen to grow them on as quick as possible . i am currnetly feeding them mainly on hikari chilid gold with regular feedings of frozen bloodworm. . i know oscars will except a wide variety of foods, eg prawns peas etc but i dont want to feed these as my oscars wont fit them in their mouth. what else can i feed that is rich in protein but that my oscars will be able to eat.. any ideas appreciated

thank you
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as long as you feed them a good staple diet of pellets (Cichlid gold is good) you can feed them what ever other bits they will eat, mine had

-Cichlid Gold and Staple
-Catfish Pellets
-ZM Discus Bits
-Tetra Doromin
-Squid
-Raw Prawns
-Blood Worm

Along with living in a 5foot 120Gallon tank with weekly water changes and the filters doing 3600LPH.


you can feed any Oscar any food you like, if you Oscar cant fit a whole Prawn in his mouth..... just cut it up.
 
agreed with bolty :good:
also deshell the peas and there in two peices then cut these into smaller peices,you will be surprized what an oscar will fit in its cake hole,,,,,
great water changes and again a good size tank will help alot
 
I don't know how widely spread the flying termites are just after a rainspell, but the other night I noticed them flying about around the lampposts in the street, so I opened my garage doors and within minutes, they were attracted to the lights in my tanks and swarming the garage..... Boy!!!! did my Oscars have a feast.....
 
lmao at ludwig, i do the same with craneflys, this is the time of year they gather, so my oscars love nothing more than a gob full of cranefly :lol:
the only thing they do not like is the wings :no:
 
nelly said:
lmao at ludwig, i do the same with craneflys, this is the time of year they gather, so my oscars love nothing more than a gob full of cranefly :lol:
the only thing they do not like is the wings :no:
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Uhm... Nelly.... At the risk of sounding ignorant,..... What are Craneflies???.... Do we also have those in S.A. (under a different name)???
 
no thats not ignorence thats a different continent that does that, iam 100% sure the creepy crawlies and bugs etc in your part of town ive never seen before,,like in colombia when i was there last, the spider i took a picture of :drool: its posted in the non fish section if your intreged, medellin colombia :shifty:
 
I've got my oscar to grow about 4" in 3 months with the following routine -

Water Changes -

Wednesdays - 25% lazy change with no gravel vac, just water
Saturday or sunday - 50% change with major gravel vac and clean UV filter (little intank job)
Biweekly filter clean, usually when i do the baby water change on a wednesday


He's fed daily a reasonable amount of Cichilid Gold in the mornings and frozen something in the evenings, mussel/cockles/baby sprat. He used to love Mysis but now ignores it as I guess its too small for him to bother with.
 
thank you all for your input. i like the fly idea but dont think parents would be too impressed with a house full of flying insects. i tried them on meal worm today and they loved them. how many do you think i should feed ? as they seem to just want to keep taking them from my hand. .

i am genarally feeding per day 2 feeds of chilid gold , 2 blocks of frozen blood worm and now hoping to intergrate meal worm as well (bear in mind there are other fish in tank too) . it is a 400 litre tank and am currently doing weekly water change/ gravel hoover of about 30% of the tank. should i increase this?

also ? one of my oscars had small lump on lip, it has always been there and ive read that it is quite common and harmless . is this accurate.

thank you
 
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