Oscar Foods?

[Mosdefenante]

Hey i was wondering what are some other things i can feed my oscars and maybe other cichlids besides feeders and pellets, i know thaat they can eat some "people" food? so if somone can help me with a list of some other foods that they can eat? thankss

 

[Sp3nc3r]

toss a pizza slice in and see if your oscar eats it.



go to your lfs, get some freeze dried food or some flakes, maybe some brine shrimp.

 

[KathyM]

You don't need feeders for Oscars. Tetra Doromin (or similar), defrosted prawns, peas, dried gammarus shrimp, etc, were all favourites of our old Oscar, and kept him in peak condition.

 

[Taridan]

Brine shrimp... I'll tell you what, I bout frozen brine shrimp for my betta's, and we decided to see if my fiancee's oscar would eat some too... well, his oscar is about 7-8 inches long now, including tail, and since I was told to thaw them first he tried to grab some but he missed most of it as it was too small for him to really be able to get any large amount in his mouth at one time. XD We give his a rosy red minnow about once a month as a treat, (Afte they've been quarentined), and we've got lots of frozen trout... could we give him little pieces of that???

 

[Mosdefenante]

You don't need feeders for Oscars. Tetra Doromin (or similar), defrosted prawns, peas, dried gammarus shrimp, etc, were all favourites of our old Oscar, and kept him in peak condition.

well since my oscars are bigger than all my other fish they go after the feeders first=/ but i only buy feeders like once a week, ive tryed the peas they messed with it spit it out but the smaller ones seemed to like it, does teh food also have to do with them changing colors, i know their mood things change their colors to

 

[KathyM]

I have no idea if feeders affect colour, sorry, never had to use them as there are good and safe alternatives.

Foods with astaxanthin in make fish redder, I know that much. Astaxanthin is what makes shrimps/prawns/lobster pink. A lot of commercial diets contain astaxanthin now.

 

[Bullrock74]

You don't need feeders for Oscars. Tetra Doromin (or similar), defrosted prawns, peas, dried gammarus shrimp, etc, were all favourites of our old Oscar, and kept him in peak condition.

well since my oscars are bigger than all my other fish they go after the feeders first=/ but i only buy feeders like once a week, ive tryed the peas they messed with it spit it out but the smaller ones seemed to like it, does teh food also have to do with them changing colors, i know their mood things change their colors to

Oscars will spit out peas and other foods at first, but keep feeding them and they will eat them once they are used to it. Actually, they will begin to eat almost anything that will fit in their mouths.

 

[flamingonhot]

They eat just about EVERYTHING..to put in perspective here's what my 4 inch one eats:

Dainichi garlic cichlid pellets, hikari cichlid staple, hikari cichlid gold, frozen and freeze dried krill, frozen and live shrimp, whitefish, feeders, frozen minnows and shiners I collect down at the marsh (quarantined and frozen in almost saltwater), tetra cichlid sinking sticks, super soft ( new soft food made with krill, other type is spirulina and algae), african cichlid attack, oscar grow, prime reef flakes (by ocean nutrition), omega one algae flakes, frozen adn freeze dried bloodworms, and a heck of a lot more.

My oscar is probably on of my most healthiest fish, it's fed at least 4 different types of food everyday..

I usually go for the hikari cichlid staple and bio-gold x dainichi pellets x oscar grow diet each day

 

[Mosdefenante]

They eat just about EVERYTHING..to put in perspective here's what my 4 inch one eats:

Dainichi garlic cichlid pellets, hikari cichlid staple, hikari cichlid gold, frozen and freeze dried krill, frozen and live shrimp, whitefish, feeders, frozen minnows and shiners I collect down at the marsh (quarantined and frozen in almost saltwater), tetra cichlid sinking sticks, super soft ( new soft food made with krill, other type is spirulina and algae), african cichlid attack, oscar grow, prime reef flakes (by ocean nutrition), omega one algae flakes, frozen adn freeze dried bloodworms, and a heck of a lot more.

My oscar is probably on of my most healthiest fish, it's fed at least 4 different types of food everyday..

I usually go for the hikari cichlid staple and bio-gold x dainichi pellets x oscar grow diet each day

heh yea well right now i buy oscar grow and cichlid grumbles thingys, so i mix those two together, yea i noticed tehy eat anything that cant get into their mouth, a beetle fell in the tank and it was gone lol, i guess nextime i go to the lfs ill look around for other kinds of dry foods

 

[max11180]

Mine loves peas - but remember to shell them 1st! they don't like the skins. Sweetcorn goes down well, and worms are one of her favorites, garden worms, and meal worms.. grasshoppers, woodlice, and other such crawlies always go down well. Her staple is defrosted prawns tho, she sticks her nose out the water and eats them from my fingers