Help! Oscar hooked to shrimp.

[SK13]

My oscar is around 6 inches now. I have few parrots with it. I feed them hikari cichlid bio gold plus, hikari blood parrot, shrimp, and bloodworms.

I feed shrimps evryday in the evening. And the oscar got hooked to it. The thing is my oscar does not touch any of the pellets.

Recently i bought a bag of Hikari massivore hoping that the oscar would like it. But when i put a massivore pellete in the tank, the oscar doesnot even look at it, but the parrots devour them.

Please suggest me ways so that i can feed the pelletes to my oscar. I think feeding only shrimps to oscar is not a good diet.

 

[John Williams]

My oscar is around 6 inches now. I have few parrots with it. I feed them hikari cichlid bio gold plus, hikari blood parrot, shrimp, and bloodworms.

I feed shrimps evryday in the evening. And the oscar got hooked to it. The thing is my oscar does not touch any of the pellets.

Recently i bought a bag of Hikari massivore hoping that the oscar would like it. But when i put a massivore pellete in the tank, the oscar doesnot even look at it, but the parrots devour them.

Please suggest me ways so that i can feed the pelletes to my oscar. I think feeding only shrimps to oscar is not a good diet.

I agree shrimp is fine for a treat but not a staple. Oscars are ravenous eaters My advice would be to just keep feeding pellets when he gets hungry enough he will go take anything that fits in his mouth.

 

[tlindsey]

I agree shrimp is fine for a treat but not a staple. Oscars are ravenous eaters My advice would be to just keep feeding pellets when he gets hungry enough he will go take anything that fits in his mouth.

I agree with J John Williams stop feeding the shrimp for awhile I also suggest not feeding the Bloodworm until it excepts pellets.

 

[John Williams]

I agree with J John Williams stop feeding the shrimp for awhile I also suggest not feeding the Bloodworm until it excepts pellets.

Also make sure the shrimp gets eaten for sure just had a problem where I thought my frontosa ate it all and a piece got left behind woke up to clouded water a horrible smell and nitrite spiked to 10ppm it's all fixed now but scared me to death haha

 

[SK13]

My oscar seems to be a lazy guy. I have to put the shrimp right in front of his mouth and then he will eat. If i put it far, the parrots eat it and the oscar dont show any interest in competition to eat. I probebly had spoilt him. Will not feed shrimp for sometime. Lets see what happens.

Thanks for your response.

Do you think Massivore is good?! Its a bit costly though comapred to normal hikari pelletes. Is it worth of that high price tag?

 

[pops]

Oscars omnivores. to much protean is not good for them, I would suggest feeding nothing but pellets till he is broke on them. shrimp. carni sticks are a treat, once or twice a week, preferably day before water change. in the mean time feed nothing but a quality pellet till he snaps them up.

other fish in the tank may be stressing him at feeding time.

 

[John Williams]

I have never used that brand I use North fin and NLS so I am no help there. I agree with pops about Oscars getting stressed. My 2 tiger Oscars are divas.

 

[pops]

Oscars in general are gluttons, they will snap up there food and if you give them more they spit out there gills and spit from there mouths to eat more. if yours aint snapping it up. then there is a underling issue, all things being healthy stress from other fish.

 

[SK13]

After not feeding for 18 hours, the oscar looked hungry. I gace some pellets. Oscar took 2 pellets in its mouth and then spat it back outside and then did not eat anything as if it didnot like the taste at all.

Will continue like this ., lets see when he starts eating the pelletes.