Does your tiger oscar eat alage wafers ?

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Mine just started, he never bothered with them before, he gets other things like pellets, etc. My Pacus love them and eat them up like cookies. One day I dropped one down a tree trunk decoration so my Pleco could get some because the Pacu's always steal them from him. The Pacu's were trying to get under it but they were too big and my Red Oscar saw them (hates Pacus) and he darted towards the wafer and grabbed it up and swallowed it. Ever since then he will swallow them whole. Funny to watch, it's like he's doing it just to piss off the Pacu. :ROFL:
 
They are some pigs.

I love them though. They are awesome cichlids to own.
An oscar will eat anything that can fit in its mouth. Sometimes they will eat prey larger than their mouths.
 
A friend of mine has an Oscar that eats Algae Wafers whenever he puts them in. He has to drop in like 4 of them just for his pleco to get one! Eats them in one bite......
 
My Oscars, and my brothers Oscars have all loved to eat them. With 4 Oscars I can't ever get them to my Pleco..
 
yes my oscars eat algae wafers along with anything else looking remotely close to food, the only way I can feed my pleco now is to put slices of cucumber on a fork
 
My albino tiger oscar eats anything that hits the water. Or for that matter, anything that you hold in your fingers above the water! LOL...

-Rich
 
Yep, my tiger Oscar will eat about anything that I drop in - on a side note my pleco likes to come to the top to eat the Oscar's pellets and piss it off...
 
Both of my O's avoid them like the plague, every once in a while they'll get a hold of one but they spit it out instantly.

My silver dollars on the other hand will grab them right up. I have to throw in extra so the pleco gets one.
 
I had the same problem when it came to feeding my plecos in my oscar tank. Ever since my oscars could swallow algae wafers, I started purposely drowning egg-based or veggie flakes that the oscars didn't care for after they sank to bottom of the tank, and when I turn off the lights the plecos make a quick meal of all the flakes that have settled on the substrate. I thought this method would foul up my water but there hasn't been any noticeable differences in water quality. On a positive note, my plecos have gained more contrasting colors with deeper browns and brighter tans, because they are no longer competing for food.
 
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