keithp
Fishaholic
immature oscar owners rant
Ok, so oscars are cool looking fish and can live a long time. I understand they eat other animals like small fish or shrimp and such.
But if you look on youtube, really sick people are feeding their oscars LIVE foods such as bettas,mice,hamsters,chicks,rats,frogs,finches,newts, and whatever else can fit in their mouth.
First, most live fish you buy cheaply can be ill, so feeding them as a staple to your oscar will only be bad for your oscar. Second, half of those foods are way too large and nobody ever thinks that a fish can choke on a large food item. Than, having a fairly large live animal drowned or being torn apart by fish is not cool, that's torture. And wth is with feeding bettas? Those are beautiful fish why pay $5 and feed it to your oscar, I dont get the thrill people partake in this? Honestly except for guppies that are not diseased I would buy frozen foods they are safer and cleaner and you can get them in bulk.
I'm not saying that every oscar owner does this, but it's like a trend now that your "cool" to have an oscar and feed it live animals for fun and tape it. Boys as young as 10 I saw doing this, oscars should really be sold to only older people, treat them like if you wanted to buy a piranha, you woudln't sell that to a kid!
Ok, so oscars are cool looking fish and can live a long time. I understand they eat other animals like small fish or shrimp and such.
But if you look on youtube, really sick people are feeding their oscars LIVE foods such as bettas,mice,hamsters,chicks,rats,frogs,finches,newts, and whatever else can fit in their mouth.
First, most live fish you buy cheaply can be ill, so feeding them as a staple to your oscar will only be bad for your oscar. Second, half of those foods are way too large and nobody ever thinks that a fish can choke on a large food item. Than, having a fairly large live animal drowned or being torn apart by fish is not cool, that's torture. And wth is with feeding bettas? Those are beautiful fish why pay $5 and feed it to your oscar, I dont get the thrill people partake in this? Honestly except for guppies that are not diseased I would buy frozen foods they are safer and cleaner and you can get them in bulk.
I'm not saying that every oscar owner does this, but it's like a trend now that your "cool" to have an oscar and feed it live animals for fun and tape it. Boys as young as 10 I saw doing this, oscars should really be sold to only older people, treat them like if you wanted to buy a piranha, you woudln't sell that to a kid!
daft bugga
i chopped it for him and everything....any ideas?
