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I've recently brought a 9in Oscar and he's in with 2 other smaller Oscars how ever I simply just can't get him to eat as he seems more interested in trying eat the other 2 I've spoken to the person I had the fish off and he said he's never fed him feeder fish how ever he simply won't accept any pallets or fresh foods have you got any ideas how to possible get him to feed? Thanks
I have a small (3”) Oscar. My wife and daughter were not fans of fish at all, but they have been converted by my tiger Oscar and is their favorite in my aquarium. I feed him fluval bug bites, hikari gold pellets, and omega one frozen chiclid formula(his favorite). He lives well with my Dempsey and Texas.
My Oscar loves snails. Aswell as the Hikari pellets. I switch from the high protein to the spirulina pellet once in a while so he gets some greens as well
If I also may add... feeding your Oscar live fish will also cause him to hate other fish you may have in with him/her. Hence it will make your Oscar chase (even though the fish may - be too big for him to eat - other fish and creating an unnecessary Stress level in your aquarium. Glad you pointed that issue out about the other aspects of live fish. Two thumbs up!!
Not necessarily... I've had many tanks that were pretty much 100% live fed predator tanks & had 0 issues with aggression at all.. as long as they have the proper space and there's enough food for everyone, there's really no reason for them to fight.. I never did store bought feeders though, always raised my own and had convict's in the tanks/ponds with the other fish because they breed non-stop. So there's ALWAYS something to eat.... That's just like people assuming a dog will become aggressive if you feed it meat🤦 lol
Finally a good Oscar video but if you are keeping a pet Oscar by itself, you can give it guppies, platys and mollies to eat. It does add enrichment to its life because they do enjoy the hunt while not being piscavores . Also crickets are a good option but definitely a much better idea to feed them dead crickets than live. Very good diet along with its pellet staple although I wouldn’t just buy these fish at a pet store and feed it to the Oscar right away. Don’t give it bugs and live fish every day. Do it once every week or two. Breed your guppies, mollies, and platys. Even baby convicts make a good snack for it. If you are doing a cichlid tank with an Oscar I highly recommend not doing live unless there’s enough food to go around
I have 2 Oscar’s in a 75 gal with a pleco and 1 African cichlid. They all seem to love Canadian night crawls with cichlid med. pellets! The pleco loves to clean up any scraps that the Oscar’s drop while playing fetch with the worm. Looking into finding something that simulates the top water action!
I feed my oscar a wide variety of foods, pellets, flakes, snails, peas, cucumbers, frozen shrimp, and this meal worm with cricket and grasshopper trail mix stuff
Having a 125 tank for an Oscar is my fantasy. I have two other tanks and do not have MTS. Oscars are the only fish I would ever break my tank code for! They are delightful!
I think it's important to try to include vegetable matter in their diet (I recently lost an oscar due to an intestinal blockage and I´ve read that it might have been due to not including enough veg. matter - I was giving them a lot of mussels and prawns at the time). So with my remaining oscar, I started giving him peas and he also loves Tetra Cichlid Algae pellets, which float on the surface and she loves. She also likes Sera Discus Granulat (very small pellets for an oscar, but she loves them) and also larger pellets, plus frozen foods of various types.
I fed mine earthworms and they began to grow much, much faster. The only problem was I enjoyed feeding them so much that the waste from digesting the worms turned the water green. UV clarifier solved the problem and I had adequate biological filtration to handle the nitrogen cycle. Of course I had to do more water changes. Although earthworms are land based, all fisherman know that they get washed into fish habitats and the fish love them.
Awesome video, recently my Oscar started getting bored with the same staple diet. I started trying some different foods, and ended up ordering a mealworm kit, to grow them at home. The Oscar loves them and they don’t make a mess either at feeding time. It’s good to see you have success with mealworms too. Thanks again from NH.
Dan Schafer Some fish keepers swear by beefheart. If they are having success, that’s great. However, I choose not to, as it is not an ingredient that they would naturally eat.
Awesome video. I have 4 Oscars, they love the Hikaru pellets, Topfin pellets frieze dried crickets, frieze dried, grasshoppers, meal worms, they go insane for the frozen blood worms, my oldest one that’s about 12 inches, know how to jump up out the water so I can drop the cube directly in his mouth and he only eats at one end of the aquarium, His name is Big O, a Tiger Oscar the others are, Oscar, a Tiger Oscar who’s about 10 inches, Al, an Albino Oscar who is a juvenile and Vail (Vail tail Oscar) who is also a juvenile. Sorry I had to introduce them they are my heart. They also go crazy for the freeze dried JumboKrill shrimp and lastly the Frozen Silverfish, I they are kinda burned out on them. This video was right on time. Gonna try them on shrimp fresh and frozen from the market as well as other fish, Bug Bites, the jury is still out on the snails Lol. Afraid of another snail population explosion. Keep the great video, very educational...
Is it good for giving oscars only mealworms daily? I used to feed em hikari gold, but yesterday I tried to buy some mealworms and they went crazy for the goddamn mealworms. They are really cheap and not messy, I'm thinking to just give them only mealworms. Is it okay? I just want to my guys enjoy their food.
I just rescued 2 large Oscars. I’ve been feeding pellets and freeze dried shrimp. I’ll be getting some meal worms for treats. I watched your video to make sure I’m feeding correctly. 👍🏼
My Oscars loooooove blanched de-shelled peas! 😋 Along with Hikari Gold and the odd treat of thawed shrimp and bloodworms! Gonna definitely try the mealworms 🐛 Do you feed them live??
Hey I got to ask her what about 12 1/2 inches long I’ve had them for three years now and I feed them pellets and dehydrated shrimp and in the video your Oscar was hiding from the camera inside of my two Oscars love when people come to the tank there like two little puppy dogs
I've read some people feed their Oscars hot dogs! I don't think I'll ever try that. I also feed my Oscars snails from my planted tanks. Aside from that I feed a few different cichlid pellets, freeze dried shrimp, sun-dried anchovies, dried black soldier fly larvae, and a couple types of Repashy.
my Oscar is only 5 months old but i feed him lots of things already of course a good pellet. Hakari Cichlid Gold twice a day. Freeze dried shrimp the the morning, then worms, crickets, frozen shrimp or tilapia at night. its a mix up everyday.
I use the very small grey guppies in my tank. The Oscars like chasing them around. I really use the fish for play things , eventually they get eaten but it’s not my Oscars main diet .. i feed them Hirichi food sticks, and bugs , worms
My Oscar grew up on fluval bug bites too and I vary it with northfin cichlids tropical sticks. Occasional treats are raw shrimp with green peas. And weekly I’ll liquid drop of sera fishtamin
Haven't kept Oscars in the past 25 years. Had a pair FL that loved eating burgers, whatever anyone brought into the enclosed porch. They grew fast and large, on all that unhealthy junky food. Now, I'm so picky about food and the contents. Good information and footage. Thanks!
I feed my 3 oscars feeders once in a while as a treat. They love it. When the feeders hide they swim threw the pcv pipes to hunt them down. But thier daily diet its good fish pellets, bug bites and to large blocks of bloodworms. I tried shrimp brime but they prefer bloodworms
My self I have a few videos of mine on RU-vid on my channel but I feed them some northfin jumbo fish pellets with some nutrafin big bits and some freeze dryed shrimp and also some fresh haddock every so offten
Thanks for that good to know what other keepers feed as well, I'm based in South Africa and have 2 Big Oscar's, I feed them mainly Chichlid gold pellets and blood worms they love it..
I got my little Oscar (3 inches or so) and he seems to LOVE this pea, shrimp, and black solider fly larva puree, but he also likes the herbivore flakes I give to the silver dollars that are with him, I do a lot of cichlid gold, mostly just because its some sold stuff I have laying around, getting some bug bites soon too.
Hey Zenzo, my Tiger Oscars, Gumby and Pokey, are about 10 months old and about 10 inches long now. I have mainly raised them on Hakari Gold Pellets and Cichlid Sticks as their staple food. They also really seem to enjoy nightcrawlers, bloodworms, and raw shrimp. I, like you, would never feed them live fish, too risky. What other fish do you feel would be most likely compatable with my Oscars in my 125 gal....I would like to add a couple blood parrots, firemouths, a Jack Dempsy, Severum, and a Green Terror to my "SouthCentral American Ciclhid tank. How many in total do you recommend? My 60 gal. African Cichlid tank currently has a mix of 20 different Mbuna and Peacock Cichlids...it seems like, the more the merrier with them lol.
I don't have an oscar but in general my fish seem to prefer solider fly larva over meal worms. Interestingly I originally bought them for my chickens but my fish like them too. I have small fish and just save the crushed up parts from the bottom of the bag (recycling--lol). The good thing is that you can easily get them at places like walmart, tractor supply etc or order them from Amazon.
Mine eat well. Bug bites krill and fresh sea food from my brother’s job at a restaurant. Chilean sea bass was recent. Mangos kiwis and sometimes algae wafers because they are thieves
I adopted my large oscar and he is so picky. He doesn't like any pellets it seems, and all he wants to eat is frozen bloodworm. I think that's mainly what the old owner fed him. But the sand substrate and water quality seems to be very effected by the bloodworms. I feel like they're quite "dirty"?
I feed my 2 juvenile Albino Oscars some pellets and crushed peas in the morning and crickets/dragonfly nymphs/locusts and earthworms in the evening. I occasionally feed them tadpoles. They are healthy and very active, always ready to play with me. I keep them in a 70 gallon tank and will transfer them to a larger tank once they grow to 5 inches. Currently they're just around 2-3 inches.
Nice video! I bought a juvenile Oscar two days ago (my first) and for now I'm feeding him tropical supervit granulat. In a few days I will probably buy also some cichlids specific pellet.
I have used Frozen Bloodworms to my two Red Oscars - they love it. I also have used two different floating pellets: Hikari Gold Cichlid Staple (Green) and Cichlid Gold (Red) - both are not very exciting to them. Dried bloodworms they like as well. Dried Bay Shrimp and Frozen Brine Shrimp also a yes, but very messy. Dried Meal Worms are so-so. I need to find something dry for us in my auto feeder. Thoughts?
Mine is only like 1 n a half inches. I gave him half of a freeze dried shrimp, he almost lost his mind lol i thought something was wrong with him for the longest time, cuz he be swimming at an angle lol almost vertically when swimming stright.
I’m planning on setting up my 75 gallon tank I’ve seen in other videos is it possible to keep 2 Oscar’s in a 75 gallon with a fluval 407 canister filter and a big emperor filter and my other question is is it better to do a bare bottom or with substrate for those guys ?
My Oscar fish is spoiled and will spit out the thawed frozen shrimp or scallops I give him. He will eat Hikari pellets, but at times he will ignore them. He loves live superworms though. But I don’t want him to get addicted to superworms. Any tips on how to feed a picky Oscar? Maybe don’t feed him superworms for awhile then try the thawed shrimp?
Thank you for the tips and info. I just bought my first Oscar and I'm not used to taking care of anything cichlid. I appreciate your informative video. 💚🐡💚
Only the ones that feed them feeders is just cause they think it’s very cool to see the chase. It’s not really worth it like you said. I fed mine beef heart and actual beef heart. Chopped it up and mixed with other pelleted and flakes foods all together. It’s a good source of vitamins and their body chemistry takes it in more and soaks it in that most pelleted and frozen food doesn’t give out. Nice vid, Zenso 👍🏼
No, that would be a bad combination. That's like saying that sharks and tuna live in the ocean together...can they be in the same tank. In tanks, it's too small and a fish can get picked on, killed, and eaten, where in the wild they can swim up/down river, hide in tree roots, etc.
Also with live food, I had an oscar dislocate jaw and eventually died from fish stuck in mouth and tear in muscle under jaw. They love the floating pellets anyway.
I have just buy a pair of tiger Oscar about 4-5cm long . I kept it with a shebram almost same size and with 2 silver dollar in a 100 gallon tank .. upto what size of Oscar growth i should put them together.
Thanks for the videos about oscars! I've been searching guides about how to take care of them and i learned a lot from your videos! I feed them Hikari Cichlid Staple because they are about 3 inches since i got them in a pet store
My 2 Oscar (3 .5 - 4.0 inch ) is in 60 galloon . Amonia level is stable aswell as ph. One Oscar eats all the pellets. While the other one gobles and throwsit out. I cant think to know y .
Repashy worms snaillo snails my guppies shrimp dead frozen or live they also get to chase about the prawns I prefer Repashy since I can add natural color boosters and meds if needed and its easy to digest and clean. I power feed spawn an grow with mealworms that also eat carrot and kale and a calcium mix before well being turned into lunch. If there breeding when are they not tho they get to play house for 8 days then I move out babies and feed mom and dad tilapia and feed brine to the new babies since its easy an quick they get about an inch and i drop them off at the local store for a few extra bucks or plants cuz who doesn't love new plants.
Dimensions are more important than water volume in my opinion. For two, I would suggest at least 150/180cm x 45cm. Maybe 350 liters minimum if the tank is at least 150cm long. 400+ liters is better. I hope this helps! 🐟🐟
Hikari red bag and hikari green bag. Once each day. Then chopped up tilapia 2-3 times a week. Although i rescued a large oscar and he will only eat pellets. His previous diet was dog food yes dog food. He will not eat anything but pellets
I feed mine the red bag(the green bag is basically the same formula minus the colorinhansing properties). I supplement that with frozen blood worms(I have spiny eels and reed fish in the tank and the worms is all they eat and the two Oscars, and the Gold Sevrem often steel some). I also feed them a variety of freeze-dried insects such as; crickets, mealworms, roaches, and shrimp. Occasionally like twice a week a few cat food pellets each (dog food is not good for them at all, it is to fatty, greasy, and lacking any nutrient plant proteins. Cat food is omnivorous based diet and healthy for most South American Cichlid). I have fed mine snails, but they are messy and the crushed shells are everywhere, sharp, and dangerous. Many years ago when I first kept Oscars I tried to keep crawfish with them but they ate them tail first and slurped them in like spaghetti. I never put crawfish, lobsters, or shrimp live in any Oscars tank again( the exoskeleton is hard on their digestion and the sharp fragments are dangerous for their digestive tract and anus. And those become expensive to waste as "food"). I never use or recommend feeder fish for all the same reasons given in the video.
Great Information! Question? I made a mistake and let 3 small cory catfish loose in my Oscar's tank and he ate them. He has not eaten anything else in over 5 months! What can I do to get him to eat again? Note: He is about 10 inches long and husky and is the only fish in a 55 gallon tank, and He had been eating Hicari gold pellets for 3 years prior! Please help me!
I sometimes feed my oscars some special treats like chicken liver heart banana carrots but mostly prawns and blood worms that are dried is his diet my my oscars growth is amazing in 4 months he reached 6inch that's kinda amazing
