i have a gluttonous oscar who is eating me out of house and home. does anyone anywhere know where i can buy substatal food for him/her at a reasonable price.it eats meal worms faster than i can breed and raise them.minnows are unsuitable for a steady diet for oscars.i got troubles!!! HELP PLEASE!
2006-10-18 23:22:44 · 5 answers · asked by houdini 3 in Pets ➔ Fish
Since they are carnivorous Oscars prefer a variety of meaty foods. They will eat all types of live, dry, and frozen foods. They get quite large so they should be fed a high quality pelleted food and large chunk foods such as cut up beef heart and earthworms. They particularly enjoy fish and worms and are hearty eaters. Live guppies and then goldfish will also suffice when they get bigger.
Though you can start younger oscars in a smaller aquarium, they grow quickly and will soon need a large home. A 30 gallon aquarium with very good maintaince and filtration is okay, but a 50 gallon aquarium or larger is better. They will need frequent water changes. Oscars do splash water in their enthusiam for eating, so it is good to have the aquarium covered.
These are curious fish that love to play, they will have definite ideas about the interior arrangement and will move things around. Rocks securely placed on the bottom work well while plants will be uprooted. Some suggestions are to put plants in pots with the roots covered with rocks, use plastic plants and securely anchor them on the bottom with silicone cement, or floating plants can work well. Because they like to explore, you can occasionally offer them a 'toy' such as a plastic ornament. Get several and rotate a new one in every so often.
If u r maintaining oscars u have to take a lot of care for them especially feeding, they are not a common fish like a goldfish, they are the fishes for true hobbiest, for their better growth a variety of diet is needed.
2006-10-19 00:56:19 · answer #1 · answered by hhhhhhh 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
for an Oscar you should always have a variety of a diet not just one particular kind of food for good nutrient I'll give you an example pellets,flake food, earthworms, blood worms, all insects, frozen shrimp, frozen white fish, vegtables such as peas, carrots, lettuce, and zucchini also once or twice a week when feeding your Oscar you can add crushed or liquid vitamins to there food. how big are your Oscar when they are babies 2-3 feedings a day 4-6 inches feed once a day for six days and leave the 7th day for them to clean out therer systems and 9-10 inches once every other day I hope this helps!
2006-10-19 05:46:57 · answer #2 · answered by C live 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I had this problem with my Oscars I simply fed the cheapest flake food (tropical/freshwater) I could find. As long as I did not overfeed it was fine. Frankly, they had to do something pretty darn special to get live food more than 2x a month.
HTH
2006-10-18 23:26:04 · answer #3 · answered by Star 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oscars are voracious eaters i would feed them once a day,pellets is a good cheap food that is filling and nutritious feeding a lot will cause problems with water quality and your oscars will grow faster than you would care for them to they are cool when they're small but get unlikeable when big they get kinda ugly and terrorize your tank digging up gravel and jumping splashing and mine use to knock my hood right off the tank.
2006-10-18 23:39:59 · answer #4 · answered by howie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about getting a small tank and breeding feeder guppies? Then you'd always have a supply of feeder fish available.
2006-10-20 15:05:50 · answer #5 · answered by Carson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋