Oscar Feeding ?

[george4]

Hi , i am tryin to search for a greater variety of food to feed my 2 oscars. they currently have hikari pellets, frozen prawns and frozen mussels. . Do you reccomend i should try frozen pinkies (mice) and worms. With regards worms where do you people get them from ?? do you just dig them out of your garden?? many thanks and other feeding suggestions gratefully accepted ....

 

[Ren&Stumpy]

you can feed earthworms, but you have to be sure they are free from contaminants like pesticides etc.

I feed crickets, hoppers (locusts) wax worms (once in a blue moon), bloodworm,rivershrimp,prawn,muscle,cockle, courgette,cucumber and loads more.

Hikari pellets are the staple.

 

[george4]

would like to try crickets but are they not a huge pain to feed , i can imagine them escaping and jumping round my house! , How do you go about feeding them ?? and how many would you expect 2 5" oscars to pollish off in one sitting ? thanks

 

[simonas]

you can buy them off ebay theres a lady who sells them, they are spot on

 

[Spishkey]

i give mine a weekly treat of home bred maggots, they wolf them down and have great fun searching for them on the bog wood etc (maggots seem to stay alive underwater for a fair while!)
as their 'basic' staple diet they are fed hikari cichlid floating pellets mixed with floating pond sticks and reptile food (dried bugs and fish)

extras include chopped veg (cucumber, potato, corgette, green beans, sweetcorn, peas, cauliflower, brocolli, chicory and whatever other veg i have at the time)

once a week they have fish (either home bred live guppys/platys or fish from my pond, they really enjoy some tadpoles this spring! if nothing is available they'll have fish from our freezer (pangasius fillet or pollack) or tinned fish (sardines or tuna)

as a monthly treat they get hotdogs. i know i know not ideal but how can you resisit their faces when they see the kids eating them? then they start begging and splashing about, so when its time for the kids monthly hotdog treat, the oscars get one too

 

[shelaghfishface]

i give mine a weekly treat of home bred maggots, they wolf them down and have great fun searching for them on the bog wood etc (maggots seem to stay alive underwater for a fair while!)
as their 'basic' staple diet they are fed hikari cichlid floating pellets mixed with floating pond sticks and reptile food (dried bugs and fish)

extras include chopped veg (cucumber, potato, corgette, green beans, sweetcorn, peas, cauliflower, brocolli, chicory and whatever other veg i have at the time)

once a week they have fish (either home bred live guppys/platys or fish from my pond, they really enjoy some tadpoles this spring! if nothing is available they'll have fish from our freezer (pangasius fillet or pollack) or tinned fish (sardines or tuna)

as a monthly treat they get hotdogs. i know i know not ideal but how can you resisit their faces when they see the kids eating them? then they start begging and splashing about, so when its time for the kids monthly hotdog treat, the oscars get one too

hotdogs.. i thought i was bad feeding donuts, but that takes the cake :lol;

 

[Spishkey]

donuts?? surely they gotta be worse!
ah we have to spoil them now and then!