Kens Fish Food For Oscar Fish?

[32Bit_Fish]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone feed Ken's Fish pellets food for your Oscar fish? I have been feeding my 12" Oscar with Hikari Bio Gold pellets with freeze dried black worms, live cricket and super worms as treats. I'm looking for varieties of food for my Oscar and lower cost of the food.

Ken's fish premium pellets food has a good price, way cheaper than Hikari pellets. Can I feed cat food (sea food deluxe) to my Oscar as a treat?

 

[Rocksor]

No mammalian pet food for your fish.

New Life Spectrum is cheap enough and readily available, providing a quality and balanced nutrition pellet for your oscar. Other foods tend to have excessive, Wheat, soy, corn, or unidentifiable ingredients.

 

[32Bit_Fish]

No mammalian pet food for your fish.

New Life Spectrum is cheap enough and readily available, providing a quality and balanced nutrition pellet for your oscar. Other foods tend to have excessive, Wheat, soy, corn, or unidentifiable ingredients.

Ken's premium pellet cost $7 per lb and NLS pellet cost $20 per lb. Anyway I read some online reviews that some of the Oscars do not like NLS pellets.

 

[dan518]

Personally I would cut back on the treats and keep a good quality pellet if I was trying to save money.

 

[Mr Pleco]

Kens pellets are fine , kept a lot of fish in good breeding shape for years .. Oscars are not picky eaters , just keep water clean , watch nitrate levels.. cat food pellets create a lot of waste more so than pellets designed specifically for ornamental fish .. discussing fish food on this forum is a slippery slope ... LOL .. brand name bigots from all camps will start in with social bullying.. post pics of your tanks and GL ..

 

[32Bit_Fish]

Kens pellets are fine , kept a lot of fish in good breeding shape for years .. Oscars are not picky eaters , just keep water clean , watch nitrate levels.. cat food pellets create a lot of waste more so than pellets designed specifically for ornamental fish .. discussing fish food on this forum is a slippery slope ... LOL .. brand name bigots from all camps will start in with social bullying.. post pics of your tanks and GL ..

Discussing fish food can be a controversial topic. People have different view on that. I just wanted to feed my fish varieties of food to keep them fat and healthy. My Oscar looks so big in my 75G. It is not even funny.

 

[Rocksor]

I never had an oscar reject NLS. If the size is right, they won't reject it. Too big and they will spit it out a few times before giving up to swallow. Oscars hold way too many food pellets in their mouths, and have difficulty swallowing all the pellets that their mouths hold.

 

[32Bit_Fish]

I never had an oscar reject NLS. If the size is right, they won't reject it. Too big and they will spit it out a few times before giving up to swallow. Oscars hold way too many food pellets in their mouths, and have difficulty swallowing whole.

I agree. I should have said "Big and healthy". My Oscar has a big mouth, so size of the pellet is not an issue. I may buy some NLS pellets to see if he/she likes it.

 

[dan518]

Personally think most fish are very resilient and you can get them to 90% of there full potential while keeping them in slightly less then optimal tank conditions, water quality and food. It's like a lot of things the last 10% is always hardest to achieve.

 

[32Bit_Fish]

Personally think most fish are very resilient and you can get them to 90% of there full potential while keeping them in slightly less then optimal tank conditions, water quality and food. It's like a lot of things the last 10% is always hardest to achieve.

I used to keep Discus and bred them. Oh yeah, Oscars are very resilient and hardy. But my goal is to find make him/her big and healthy thriving at 100%, not just to keep him/her survive.