How much should i feed my baby oscar
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I feed mine three small meals a day. Just enough to make the belly bulge out a bit for about an hour.
You will want to get the Oscar on a good quality pellet as it's main food source. Things like bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp, meal worms, crickets, are more of a once a week treat. And please dont feed it "feeder fish" as these can pass along diseases and parasites on to your Oscar.
what happens if I feed it blood worms only and what type of pellet should I get?
There are several brands, mostly its a balence of cost vs availability vs will the fish eat it.
I started with Hikari gold, buy the small pellet size and a small bag. Oscar's grow real fast, an inch a month so you don't want to buy too much food and have it outgrow the food. There are other brands out there, some more available than others. Omega One, New Life Spectrum and on and on.
In the wild Oscar's eat everything from fish, to algea, shellfish, bugs,worms and all the stuff in thier bellies.
Imagine eating just one kind of meat your whole life, you can't get all the neiutrients the body needs doing this. Same for your fish just eating the worms all the time.
I started with Hikari gold, buy the small pellet size and a small bag. Oscar's grow real fast, an inch a month so you don't want to buy too much food and have it outgrow the food. There are other brands out there, some more available than others. Omega One, New Life Spectrum and on and on.
In the wild Oscar's eat everything from fish, to algea, shellfish, bugs,worms and all the stuff in thier bellies.
Imagine eating just one kind of meat your whole life, you can't get all the neiutrients the body needs doing this. Same for your fish just eating the worms all the time.
What size tank do you plan on housing your little monster in? I have 3 Os. An Adult, sub adult, and a juivinile. Aquired the juivinile at around 1.5 inches 3 months ago. He just hit 5 inches. Water kept supper clean, fed 3-4x a day and he grows VERY fast. I've been following Jexnell's advice about feeding and haven't found it to be wrong yet. He knows his stuff!
I feed mine a mix of repashy gel food as a staple. I mix Grub Pie, Super Green, Red Drum, and Spawn and Grow. For treats he gets crickets, cut up earth worms, Pacific plankton, market shrimp, krill, squid, and chopped up pealed grapes.
Huh...you know, once I write it all down I realize these are some terribly spoiled fish...
Huh...you know, once I write it all down I realize these are some terribly spoiled fish...
I also agree with Sean, and the others telling you blood worms alone are a "very mono-incomplete diet", kind of like if you were allowed 3 meals per day of only carrots and nothing else. You might survive, but have many deficiencies leading to health problems.
A good quality pellet is made to have complete nutrition with its myriad of components.
Although in nature a fish might have a glut of one kind of larvae, or insect as they hatch out for a few days, things are constantly changing and being omnivorous with a tendency toward being insectivorous in nature, oscars will be getting a variety of insects (and everything they eat) because they eat the entire insect.
A good quality pellet is made to have complete nutrition with its myriad of components.
Although in nature a fish might have a glut of one kind of larvae, or insect as they hatch out for a few days, things are constantly changing and being omnivorous with a tendency toward being insectivorous in nature, oscars will be getting a variety of insects (and everything they eat) because they eat the entire insect.
