My 2 Oscars Stealing Food From Others :(

[FishLoveMe22]

Please help guys fast!

My 6" tiger oscar and 4" Albino Red Oscar steal food from all of their other tankmates. They are all able to eat, but its just that they don't get to eat much. Just barely. I've tried dropping in like 10 sinking tablets for my clown loaches and the oscars either eat them before they sink or if they do make it, hunt for the pellets. I am also worried about my oscars because I fear that I might accidentally overfeed in the process of getting food to the others. My Indo datnoid also doesn't get to eat much either. The clowns are around 4" and the Dat is around 3". open to any suggestions. Thanks!

 

[Winston]

Why don't you try feeding prawn or fish meats to them. I do think the oscars will stopped the snatching once its stomach started to be bloated with foods.

 

[Crazy mike]

Feed at different areas of the tank. Like distract the Oscars at one and the others near the other side.


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[Winston]

Feed at different areas of the tank. Like distract the Oscars at one and the others near the other side.

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Another possible option that I concur with.

 

[Fighter Fish]

That's oscars. Mine do the same and they are with jags and red devil. I've tried feeding different areas and throwing in lots at once. Come to the point now where my oscars are fs


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[jagsandpits]

u hav to net the Oscars with a big net. feed the others. its the only way

 

[jagsandpits]

im telling u I have a big net like 8 by 8 inches I net up my sunfish during feed and hold him against the glass then I feed everyone else then let em go. I did get sick of netting him up and threw him back in the pond wer he came from. wasn't worth it. I meen ofcourse its different for u since u actually like ur fish

 

[strollo22]

Just feed them until they 're full. They'll stop eating at some point and then the rest of the fish can eat


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[everlastace]

They will eventually get so much in their mouth that they can't take anything else. Mine tried to steal every bit of food for a while, then eventually grew out of this immaturity.


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[Crazy mike]

u hav to net the Oscars with a big net. feed the others. its the only way

I wouldn't do that, it causes a lot of stress on fish to be netted. With greedy fish I just feed them with either lathe amounts of food or feed in separate areas. I've had oscars with fish that weren't the quickest and I just mixed the floating and sinking pellets at the same time so at Least some get to the bottom


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