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[severina]

I think I pretty much covered what I want to know.. Right now I feed my Albino Tiger Oscar Hikari Gold pellets and Tetra's freeze dried bloodworms. (I'm also starting a tank to breed feeder fish and shrimp) What do you feed your Oscars? And from your experience which is the best?

 

[VENOM]

yeah hikari cichlid gold and tetra's live food alternative stix are great.

 

[Somethings Fishy Here]

Hikari is definitely the way to go

 

[Tolak]

Look at the back of the food container. See which ingredients they list, and the order they list them in. The largest percentage is listed first, and so on just like food products for human consumption.

My small & quickly growing oscar gets Omega One small cichlid pellets twice daily, and is for some reason fond of sinking veggie pellets from AngelsPlus, which he gets once daily. Once a week he gets some brine shrimp or beef heart, every few weeks he gets feeder fry, either angel culls, or convicts.

Tolak

 

[juanveldez]

I use a combination of pellets from 3 companies.

I use Hikari bio blend, MarineLand Labs Bio Blend large cichlid pellets, and omega one medium cichlid pellets.

on top of that mix, I give my fish pre cooked cocktail shrimp, scallops, frozen plankton, frozen mosquito larva, and silversides.

 

[Tolak]

Your fish eat better than me. Save me some of those shrimp.

Tolak

 

[juanveldez]

HA join the club... Carrie tells me that every time I go to the store to pick up more. but the thing to remember is that the scallops go a long ways. only half of a scallop properly cut will feed all of my fish that like to eat it.

 

[yvez9]

my oscar gets

daily (not all of these everyday, but a mix throughout the week)
hikari staple cichlid pellets
omega cichlid pellets
tetra cichlid color enhancer
omega veggie wafers

weekly
frozen bloodworms/mosquitoe larvae/brine shrimp
live crickets (ghost shrimps/guppies will be next) once a week

 

[VENOM]

Im thinkin about a recipe using gelatin and mixing foods in a blender.

 

[guppymonkey]

My oscar (Nibbler is his name) gets an assortment of pellets, frozen and freeze dried foods supplemented on occasion by some live food (mostly earthworms and the occasional small convict when my pair breed). The pelleted food I use is mostly Dainichi, Omega One and Ocean Nutrition. Sometimes I mix in a little Hikari but i have moved away from that as I find my oscar doesn't like the taste and the nutrition isn't as good. I usually feed Omega One freeze dried shrimp.

I also usually soak my pellets in Vita-Chem before feeding them to my oscar. It has really improved his color and helped him recover from hole in the head that he got when I went away on vacation for a week.

 

[severina]

Wow! There are as many variations as there are people who posted I'm thinking about ghost shrimp too, since we sell them at work...but I don't want to give my tanks any nasty diseases...so until I research how to breed them, etc, I think I'll just stick with the rosy red fry I'm trying to hatch (I'm starting to think they are all one sex). Looks like I'll have betta fry before that happens. Thanks for all the answers