feeding Oscars

[Wyser]

I have an Oscar about 1 year old. All his "adult life" I have been feeding him live worms, frozen june bugs, and frozen crickets. The insects were live when I got them but I froze them. He has also been getting little bits of chickec, turkey, hamburg, and pork from time to time. My question is this... How can I get him to accept prepared foods such as pellets meant for him??? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Bethany]

put less of the other food, but suppliment it with hte pellets.

slowly add more pellets than the other stuff, and hopefully he'll start accepting it.

it's worth a shot. i do it when i switch my fish to new foods

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

even if you can't get it to accept anything new, at least stop feeding it things like pork and hamburger, which fish have no business eating

 

[haynchinook334]

starve it.......then feed it.

 

[Bethany]

^^^ true, don't give him options, you're the master not the bloody fish! lmao

 

[Cblake007]

hold him down and make him eat it

 

[Wyser]

Dam you guys make me laugh...... hold him down and make him eat it?????????????? Am just gonna start giving him nothing but pellets and then he should get so hungry, he will start being accepted.

 

[Wyser]

Why shouldn't he eat things like chicken and pork.... He is a carnivore is he not?????? If a wild animal fell into the Oscar's native waters dead, I am sure a wild Oscar would nibble on it. As for giving him less insects and more pellets, well I've tried that and he just ignores the pellets. I am in a spot here with winter coming. I can get crickets year round but there is no such thing as a bait shop round here. Maybe I should try frozen blood worms. I can't make a preparation for him because there are no health food stores where I can buy spirulina and the local grocery store can't get beef heart. Any other suggestions.????????

 

[pcfriedrich]

Dam you guys make me laugh...... hold him down and make him eat it?????????????? Am just gonna start giving him nothing but pellets and then he should get so hungry, he will start being accepted.

you got the idea...

 

[pcfriedrich]

Why shouldn't he eat things like chicken and pork.... He is a carnivore is he not?????? If a wild animal fell into the Oscar's native waters dead, I am sure a wild Oscar would nibble on it. As for giving him less insects and more pellets, well I've tried that and he just ignores the pellets. I am in a spot here with winter coming. I can get crickets year round but there is no such thing as a bait shop round here. Maybe I should try frozen blood worms. I can't make a preparation for him because there are no health food stores where I can buy spirulina and the local grocery store can't get beef heart. Any other suggestions.????????

chicken might be alright, just feed white meat and no skin. these fish really weren't meant to digest fat.

if you want him to eat pellets, feed him only pellets. my O loves freeze dried krill, earthworms and frozen bloodworms. He'll get picky enough that he won't eat his pellets, so I starve him for a day, and then give him one pellet at a time. he eventually accepts them again.

I gotta learn to only feed him treats in small amounts, at the end of the day (kinda like the way I should consume beer).