what is the best food for my 4 big oscars?

Answer 1

use shrimps
or chichlid slakes
and some time live fish

Answer 2

Oscars are VERY happy eaters Ive come to learn. Being piscivores, often people will give them feeder fish, however they're usually ill or sick from the store, without a hospital tank to nurse them to health before you feed them over is a big no no.

Beyond that, you can purchase Cichlid pellets for any size fish, Oscars will adore those.

You might want to try Spirulina flakes since the oscars wont willingly eat plant life as a normality, and this will subsidise some vegetation in its diet.

They love Krill, thats small 1" long shrimps.

Gumarrus - smaller shrimps

Blood worms - Mosquito Larva

Staple flake food - Simply everything it will ever need in its diet right here.

Brine Shrimp - Little tiny tiny shrimps you buy in cubes. IF you buy them frozen, you must defrost them before feeding them to your fish. Intaking frozen foods instills constiptation in most all cichlids.

The real problem feeding oscars is knowing what the right foods are, Ive heard of oscars eating hot dogs, then never wanting anything else. Circumstances such as this are greatly damaging for your fishes nutrition and health. Stay away from people food, feed them properly prepared fish foods, or live fish approx 1-2 inches in size.

Answer 3

I use Oscar pellets from the pet store as the staple of their diet and I supplement it with meal worms, bloodworms, krill, earthworms and the such. Just don't over do the extra protein and keep a balanced diet and a large tank and they should be fine. You may find that some foods they don't like or some will like but the others don't. Experiment and find what makes them happy, healthy and won't bankrupt you.

Answer 4

Cichlid staple pellets should be their main food. You want to fill them up without gorging them on protein & fat which will harm them in the long run. The stuff is plain & they don't go nuts for it, but its best for their long term health.

You can treat them regularly to
Freeze Dried or frozen Krill.
Frozen Bloodworms
Boiled peas with the skin removed,
tubifex worms

very infrequently (like once a week or even less often) you can give them
beefheart
tetra rich mix pellets
liver
feeder fish
live worms from the yard.
fresh sushi meats

Stay away from store bought feeder fish. They carry parasites that can kill oscars.

Try not to even buy feeder fish or beefheart. They don't really need it & although they go nuts for it, its bad for them.

Avoid frozen community mix (the green blocks with some worms in them)... they will make a huge mess out of it, spitting most of it back out to rot.

Answer 5

I use to feed mine Large pellet dog food until they were too big for my 90gal tank and I had to trade them in at the LFS.
If you do some research you will find that the dog food has everything they NEED For a healthy diet.
Mine were over 12" and they would go nuts over the stuff.
A LOT CHEEPER than fish food and PROBABLY THE SAME INGREDIENCE.

Answer 6

Buy 1 male mollie and 2 or 3 female mollies and allow the oscars to eat their live young. Thats not an expensive way of doing it as mollies can often have around 40 fry.

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Answer 7

The best thing for your fish is a vaired and balanced diet. A good pellet or stick food should eb the staple of the diet, but you should also add things such as feeder fish, shrimp pellets and even things like fish fillets or shrimp to thier diet.

MM

Answer 8

Go to your butchery en ask them for ox heart, cut it up and take out all the sinu out or they wont eat it, cut it to about a centimetre each and throw 1 piece in for each of them, and see if they are still hungry, Oscars love ox heart

Answer 9

NOT goldfish, they're the mcdonalds burgers of the feeder fish world, trash food.

they do however appreciate a varied diet, stick to cichlid pellets as a staple food. for live food you can try crickets, other insects, worms. if you want to feed live fish, raise your own, guppies i would go for, if you raise your own you know you're not feeding your oscars sick fish. you can also try beefheart, turkey heart, shrimp, krill and other lean meat. cooked deshelled pea is also recommend to aid their digestion (a handy fish laxative!). they have been known to eat other veges such as cucumber, zucchini and lettace. you can also try soaking their pellets in liquid vitamins, this helps prevent hole in the head and other diseases.

Answer 10

LARGE KRILL, Cichlid large pellets, ground beef,live small fish