I have 2 large oscars and lately i have been going to the local creek and catching whatever i can to feed them... I mainly catch crayfish and newts.. I was just wondering if crayfish are good nutrition for my oscars. What would be the best food for my oscars that i can find in the creek?
Oscar Feeding
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Personally i wouldnt catch food from the wild, they could harbour parasites and give them to your fish,or nasty illness....get a good quality pellet and feed stuff like frozen shrimp/bloodworm etc
you're better off collecting worms tbh.. But even then be careful where you get them from.
taking anything from one waterway and putting it into another (your tank) is really chancing a parasite/bacterial/viral infection to your fish. not sure as to the amphibian protein health wise.. but many newts/salamanders are toxic to some degree and many are also on the threatened/endangered list. for that alone I wouldn't suggest collecting and feeding of them.
taking anything from one waterway and putting it into another (your tank) is really chancing a parasite/bacterial/viral infection to your fish. not sure as to the amphibian protein health wise.. but many newts/salamanders are toxic to some degree and many are also on the threatened/endangered list. for that alone I wouldn't suggest collecting and feeding of them.
I can't think of any good reason to do this. Anything you take from the creek and put in your tank will bring every pathogen, parasite, toxin, pesticide, and chemical from the creek to your aquarium. A bag of pellets is about $20 bucks at the most and will last you a few weeks.
Crayfish are a staple of an Oscar's diet in the wild so they're good for them. However I'm with the others-I wouldn't feed wild caught crays to a captive bred fish because of the parasite dangers.
i feed my Oscar crabs from the beach sometimes, but that's because they are saltwater and he is fresh so there aren't many pathogens that can live my tank. I've never trusted anything collected from wild freshwater until it lives in quarantine for awhile and shows itself to be healthy.
unless there's containers of Hikari floating around in your creek, I wouldn't feed anything found there to your oscars. You need to consider parasites and also contamination from human pollution