Is/was your Oscar...

[snpydhk]

A picky eater when he/she was little? My little one will only eat certain foods, bloodworms, and somethime hikari chichlid gold...but spits out everything else...Lemme know your experiences with this and your Oscar experiences in general.

Thanks

Definately!!! in general any new fish you introduce to your tank will do that. Just keep feeding them regularly (not too much per feeding) they will eventually get used to it. I have seen in some cases it taking upward to a week or more until they started keeping the food down.

 

[scalesandfins]

nope! mine ate like an hour after he was in the tank! and wont turn down anythin i put in the tank. i think its a game for him bc nothin as allowed to hit the bottom no matter how spread out i put them

 

[BrtnBoy449]

nope! mine ate like an hour after he was in the tank! and wont turn down anythin i put in the tank. i think its a game for him bc nothin as allowed to hit the bottom no matter how spread out i put them

haha i remember my oscar doing it too, to me its more of them just being pigs

 

[GTkeeper]

My little 3 inch tiger oscar is a glutten, eats small pellets like crazy, freeze dried bloodworms, tropical flake(not meant for him), Big Shrimp pellets (it amazes me that he can even get them in his mouth but he does and will eat like 4 in a row), Attacks algae wafers on the bottom trying to eat them, and frozen bloodworms...he will take the whole cube and take it to his spot in the top corner away from all the other fish and hold onto it until it thaws enough for him to suck the whole thing in.

Is your Oscar the dominant fish in the tank?

he is the only fish in the tank lol besides the clown pleco

 

[GTkeeper]

yeeah thanks guys, he is also kinda skinny...idk whats wrong with the little guy

 

[BrtnBoy449]

yeeah thanks guys, he is also kinda skinny...idk whats wrong with the little guy

he could just be moody right now, oscars are the one fish that i've had that actually seemed to have moods... they're quite the interesting fish