feeding Oscars

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Ahhhhhhhh beer.......ya just gotta love it .... now if only I can get my O on beer. I have tried him numerous times on krill and he just spits it out. I think I am going to starve him for a day or two just to let him know that there is nothing else. Is there any particular brand of pellets you feed your O?
 
hikari pellets:
veggie: green pellets
meaty: red pellets
i feed my oscar both.
and omega one pellets.
 
I feed my O Hikari Cichlid Gold.

Soon to be Bio Gold+.

My O will jump out of the water to grab a piece of freeze dried krill from my fingertips. he usually misses, bites my finger, and knocks the piece of krill on the floor, but its still fun.

My O loves the krill.
 
I have tried everything, including the red meaty sticks. I have also tried pellets meant for O's. I must have spoiled him cuz he will accept only live or freshly dead food. Winter is coming on and am getting worried what to feed him as there are no bait shops withing 100 miles of here. I live out in the sticks. Thanks for your input though. Much appreciated.

Thanks :confused:
 
if you don't give him a choice, he'll come around.

oscars love to eat. he'll eat pellets, if thats all you give him.
 
this is difficult to achieve. i must admit i have a similar problem but it's gradually getting better. one of my oscars was getting much bigger than the other and the cause was one of them liked the pellets and the other didn't. He went quite a few days without eating! they can be stubborn. but i was persistant and finally he had no choice. just be assertive! lol:headbang2
 
Thank you for your input. I think I will give your method a try. Winter is coming and I won't be able to get bugs or worms. What type of pellet to you give your O's?

Thanks
 
I like Cichilid Bio-Gold+ by Hikari as far as pellets. I feed more of other stuff than I do pellets though. They've got something called "Can O' Crickets" here at PetsMart, it's canned moist crickets (huge) made for mainly reptiles. They've got all sorts of stuff like that here, you should be able to get it there or go to the Canadia PetsMart websight and order it. There's crickets, grasshoppers, caterpillars, fish eggs, fly larvae, mealworms, river shrimp....I can't even remember them all.
 
Thank you very much for you postive input. I will certainly check out Petsmart. I have however heard that in some cases that people who order canned crickets for the beardies actually made them sick because the crickets were rotten. Nevertheless, I am going to try him on the pellets you suggested and also the canned crickets. At the moment I can still get them llive but when that live supply runs out, I will try the canned ones. Its my own fault, I have fed him live food ever since he was a baby so I guess he got spoiled hahaha......... later and thanks again.
 
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