Feeding Oscar Bait?

[Raechal]

I went fishing the other day and went to walmart to buy some frozen bait. A huge bag of shrimp is like 3 dollars, where as a small bag of prawn at the pet store is like 4$-5$.

Would it be safe to just buy the large bag of shrimp and feed them to my oscar as occasional treats?

 

[SamUK]

not sure if there the same but ive jus started buying prawns.

big bag for less than £2 and ever since my oscar tasted em, i have to be careful when leaning over the tank cos he thinks i have prawns and jumps like crazy at me lol

thats how much he likes em.

eats my finger too cos i think it must look prawn-ish too him.



EDIT - how is your little guy now neway? probably not so little im guessing.

 

[Raechal]

not sure if there the same but ive jus started buying prawns.

big bag for less than £2 and ever since my oscar tasted em, i have to be careful when leaning over the tank cos he thinks i have prawns and jumps like crazy at me lol

thats how much he likes em.

eats my finger too cos i think it must look prawn-ish too him.



EDIT - how is your little guy now neway? probably not so little im guessing.

Haha he is about 5 inches right now and has beautiful salmon pink coloring around the edges of his tail and dorsal fins. He has had this coloration ever since I have been feeding him shrimp.

 

[kubora666]

nice, the other guy who posted up here, with the oscar in his sig. i have a 8" one just like yours shes lovely and ive taught her various tricks etc. can feeding oscars certain foods influence their colouring ? also when ifeed my oscars something new they spit it out through their gills until they get used to it, is that normale? or not.

 

[SamUK]

gorgeous arent they?

Hercs about 7" now.

i hadnt heard about the change in colour but i kno some foods claim to help "bring out the fishes colours".


and yea the gill things normal apparently.

worried me a little at first too.

couldnt believe how high he jumped earlier tho and the splash he made was crazy lol. i got soaked.

hard to get in my tank at the mo tho because the light is resting directly on the perspex/ drip trays.

Haha he is about 5 inches right now and has beautiful salmon pink coloring around the edges of his tail and dorsal fins. He has had this coloration ever since I have been feeding him shrimp.

have to get some more pics of him up!

5 inches is a slight improvement since the last ones!

 

[-=Joel=-]

Prawns will help bring out the reds and pinks of fish. Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimps

However I don't recommend feeding them on just prawns, but you already know that

I feed my Oscar (and other cichlids) everything from pellets, meal worms, earthworms, prawns to whitebait crickets and peas !!

Joel

 

[Raechal]

Prawns will help bring out the reds and pinks of fish. Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimps

However I don't recommend feeding them on just prawns, but you already know that

I feed my Oscar (and other cichlids) everything from pellets, meal worms, earthworms, prawns to whitebait crickets and peas !!

Joel

Yeah I am going to try to pick up some crickets and maybe some worms, but whenever I fed him prawn the edges of his tail and dorsal fins are bright pink. So pretty!

he is close to 6 inches and I can't wait until he gets bigger. I've had him since December. Should he be larger?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

i was thinking this the other day about boilies you go fishing with, they're pretty high quality I bet you could use those too