Oscar And Pleco Food

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I hope this is the right place... Anyways, so, my population background: I have 2 tiger oscars and 2 plecos. One of the oscars and one of the plecos were rescues and he fed them trillions of different kinds of foods(they weren't very attractive). The other 2 have had hikari cichlid gold and hikari algae wafers all their lives. Well, finances have changed:cry: and so I'm looking for the next best thing to hikari.
My little female oscar looks amazing and I want to keep her that way; my rescues have become very healthy on the hikari and obviously I want the best for them, alas, the best is expensive. So, I need the next best thing. I've been looking and Omega One looks good, then there's two other popular ones; Aquarian, and Aqueon:nilly:. I'm looking for great nutrition, and great color(kinda go hand-in-hand). I've never really gone shopping for 2nd best. It's hard to find info about that. So any recommendations, advice, or whatever would be appreciated. Thanks!:popcorn:
 
How often do you feed them? If it is twice daily, then cut it down to once daily; with the same food...there, 50% savings and fish will be healthier.
 
How much money are we talking for feeding?

I use Omega One and am happy with it. But I also purchase it on-line because its even cheaper than in the store.
 
Once a day. they also eat turtle pellets. I only add some fish food. Large pinch of turtle pellets, and a medium pinch of fish food. They are doing really well on the mix. I think they need more than just the turtle pellets. Idk, maybe they'll be fine on just that. But I doubt it, but like I said idk I'm not an expert. They also get various fruits and veggies 2 or 3 times a week. If anyone is interested, here's the nutritional info on the turtle pellets.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein......42.5% min.
Moisture.............8.0% max.
Crude Fat...........8.5% min.
Phosphorous......1.8% min.
Crude Fiber........2.0% max.
Calcium.............2.0% min.
Ascorbic acid
(Vitamin C)........100 mg/kg min.
Ingredients:
Fish meal, wheat starch, dried yeast, corn flour, shrimp meal, wheat gluten, potato protein, dehulled soybean meal, soybean oil, monobasic calcium phosphate, L-lysine monohydrochloride, lecithin, algae meal, ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), inositol, niacin, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (stabilized Vitamin C), D-calcium pantothenate, A-tocopherol-acetate, riboflavin-5-phosphate, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Vitamin A palmitate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex, cyanocobalamin, cholecalciferol, manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, cobalt nitrate, artificial colors, blue 2 lake, yellow 6 lake, and ethoxyquin as a preservative.
 
DMD123 said:
How much money are we talking for feeding?

I use Omega One and am happy with it. But I also purchase it on-line because its even cheaper than in the store.
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Thats where I usually get pet stuff. Gotta love amazon. I'm amazon prime, so I get free shipping too :)
Well budgetwise we'll put it this way, we have problems getting food for ourselves. But I'm not gonna cut out the health of my animals cause the government is inept.
 
You can also skip a feeding once or twice a week and it won't hurt them, some people encourage skipping at least one day.
Omega one would be the best of the three.
Check out Kens Fish food at kensfish.com, can buy more bulk, but do have to pay shipping. Amazon might also have some deals.
 
Has anyone had problems with their fish refusing flakes? I got some Omega One cichlid food from a friend. Its flake food and the oscars just took a bite then ignorned them. Could it be they just don't like the brand or something? One of my turtles won't eat wardley pellets. Didn't eat for a month. Ended up being forced to buy reptimin. Would oscars do the same? Seems kinda silly to me to feed a large fish some flakes, but ok. Like I said I'm fairly uninformed about other foods cause all I've ever fed is hikari pellets. Any info would be appreciated.
 
I find if you skip a feeding, your fish will be hungry and will eat anything. This is how I got mine to eat the Omega flakes, now they go crazy for it.
 
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