Feeder fish

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nicko378

Feeder Fish
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Apr 24, 2012
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Hello all,
I have been reading up on different things to feed Oscar fish. I would like to give them feeder fish because everyone is saying live foods help them grow. I do not want to give th feeders from the store because I have no interest in giving any parasites tony fish. However I have a stream in my backyard where I use a minnow trap to catch them to stock my outdoor pond with. Would these be safe to feed to my oscars?


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They too can carry parasites.

I kept oscars off and on for a long time...and growing is not usually their problem :) A quality pellet diet is good enough for them...Krill also works wonders.
 
Use and feed Hikari Jumbo CarniSticks, Hikari Massivore Delite, Azoo 9 in 1 Arowana Sticks, TetraCichlid Jumbo Sticks, large freeze-dried krill & a turtle mix with dried grass hoppers, mill worms etc. in it.. I mix bags and bags of these all up in rubber mad bins and this is the main food source to all my fish that I feed daily. I also however feed raw shrimp, silver sides, shiners, fat heads, blue gill, cry fish, squid, snails, frogs, trout, salmon, herring, smelt, cichlids, krill.

The key really is good foods and verity.. I'm sure the minnows will be fine but not as their main food source.
 
Start another tank and grow your own food.
 
Zfishies said:
Should be fine try to gut load them before you do though.
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wild fish are already gutloaded with bugs, smaller fish & algae. keeping them to gutload, it's more likely they'd get
a tank illness.
It's IPs that are risky with wild caught feeders.
 
MonsterPeacock said:
Use and feed Hikari Jumbo CarniSticks, Hikari Massivore Delite, Azoo 9 in 1 Arowana Sticks, TetraCichlid Jumbo Sticks, large freeze-dried krill & a turtle mix with dried grass hoppers, mill worms etc. in it.. I mix bags and bags of these all up in rubber mad bins and this is the main food source to all my fish that I feed daily. I also however feed raw shrimp, silver sides, shiners, fat heads, blue gill, cry fish, squid, snails, frogs, trout, salmon, herring, smelt, cichlids, krill.

The key really is good foods and verity.. I'm sure the minnows will be fine but not as their main food source.
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Thanks I try to switch it up a lot. I primarily use hikari cichlid pellets and every other day I thaw out a couple cubes of bloodworms and on days that I don't give them worms I usually put a piece of lettuce in for them. When my lfs has ghost shrimps I pick up a few. I like the variety not only because it is good for the fish but I enjoy watching them eat different things haha


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nicko378 said:
I might do that. I was just thinking if I have a ready supply of wild fish I would look into using them before setting up another tank
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I know that's tempting, there's wild feeders near me too, but then I'd worry about internal parasites.

Watching mine eat live red wigglers or nightcrawlers is fun. Most oscars love them, but there's 2 MFK guys with O's that are scared of them. LOL. My baby isn't, but I cut them to 1inch bcuz he's small.
Half the fun of an O is feeding goodies.
Market shrimp are healthy & good for color, cheaper in frozen bags.
Next thing I'm buying for treats is krill, freeze dried or frozen.
 
Could always just try it and see what happens. I would just have a tank separate for that though. I find it easier to just buy some pellets and shrimp from the store.
 
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