Question About Feeding Oscars

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itsmedeanna64

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Hi,

My neighbor and I had a discussion and wanted to get more input on this. Is it possible to raise a happy and healthy Oscar without feeding feeder fish? Could a diet of a wide variety of dried, frozen and raw veggies (commercial wafers and frozen food cubes, pellets, frozen shrimp, bloodworms, etc.) be sufficient? I would like to one day get an oscar but I'm not crazy about feeding feeder fish. Any information you could give me would be great!
 
of course you don't need feeder goldfish. some feeders are from a diseased tank so you run the risk of infecting your oscars.

what i used to do was feed my oscar dried shrimp that i bought from a chinese store. that really helped him grow fast.
 
They get by better without feeders. Besides introducing diseases, feeder fish have no where near the balanced nutrition of a good cichlid pellet. Feeding the foods you mentioned would help an oscar to be good & healthy. Many people don't realize the benifits of vegetables for oscars, it's a great thing for their digestive system, an easy way to avoid constipation & bloat.

Tolak
 
My oscar has never seen a feeder in his life and he is a happy healthy 11" fish :)
 
My pair of 10" oscars have never eaten a feeder fish in their life. They get pellets in the morning then either frozen bloodworms/cichlid chow/squid/prawns/mussels/Big Mac at night. Always vary what they have at night so they never have the same meal. Also give them peas and frozen spinich rolled into balls every now and again. They also get a vitamin suppliment added to the tank as part of their weekly maintance
 
Wow, thanks so much for all that input on this. So I guess I was right after all! I see oscars in my future! :nod:
 
I feed my oscar feeders as a treat, i put 10 in the tank the other day and they were gone 2 days later :crazy:

He gets pellets, frozen blood worms, vegies ect.

The feeder fish just seem to make him happy, they get him alert ect.
 
I have 2 Oscars. Both about 9" and they won't stop fighting so I'm taking one and putting it in our tank at work. He eats large Cichlid Gold pellets and finding a auto feeder is nearly impossible. Is it fine to just not feed on weekends? The tank at work has some Clown Loaches, a couple algae eaters and 1 neon (it will be eaten) so there is flake food dispensed from a auto feeder.
 
My Oscar actually refuses to eat feeders.

I keep him with a parrot cichlid and I tried throwing a few feeders in there. My parrot will chase them around trying to catch them and rip them apart, but my Oscar chases her away and doesn't let her eat them either.

So I ended up with three 3-4 inch feeders in a seperate tank now because they have been living with them for so long and grew to get rather big. :hyper:

My Oscar will eat ghost shrimp though on occasion.

I feed him cichlid pellets, along with frozen shrimp, clams, and assorted veggies. He loves them all.
 
The only thing my oscars eat live are earthworms, spiders, and flys that the kids catch for them. I haven't brought feeders for them because of the disease, but I have herd of a lot of people who raise convicts and feed the fry to the oscars and other cichlids, as they are home raised and disease free
 

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