Oscar wont eat

[Babyangel1985]

Hello,
I am new here but I was hoping I could get some ideas to what to feed my oscar. He wont eat anything other than krill it seems. Sometimes I can get him to eat the random pinch of hakari gold but nothing other than that. Is there another food I should try? Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[rich_one]

Hello,
I am new here but I was hoping I could get some ideas to what to feed my oscar. He wont eat anything other than krill it seems. Sometimes I can get him to eat the random pinch of hakari gold but nothing other than that. Is there another food I should try? Thanks in advance for any advice.

You can try dropping small amounts of whatever other food you want to introduce to him, along with the krill, and maybe he's start eating that way. Another thing you can try is getting one of those jars of minced garlic, if the food is a pellet type, and letting the pellets soak in it for a few before feeding. For whatever reason, garlic seems to stimulate their appetite. If it is something like a flake, that would be difficult to soak up the garlic that way, try mixing in a bit of garlic powder with it. Just don't overdue it on the garlic.

Anyway... those are a couple of suggestions that have worked for me in the past. I'm sure you will get plenty of others. Good luck!

-Rich

 

[CHUPA CABRA]

let him starve for a week and he will start eating

 

[Pocoloco]

Oscars eat like crazy just dont feed him a few days and he'll eat whatever you throw at him

 

[The Flizzle]

Oscars eat like crazy just dont feed him a few days and he'll eat whatever you throw at him

This works all the time.

 

[inssane]

Mealworms - red wigglers - beefheart (not alot or consistently) - bloodworms

If waiting a few days doesn't work, one of these should

 

[Babyangel1985]

Thanks for all the replies, I will try letting him go without food for a few days and see if he will eat. If not where can I get beef heart? Would I just pick some up from a grocery store or is it in the frozen section of the petstore? I've never heard of feeding them mealworms but I guess i could try that as well.

 

[Babyangel1985]

Very interesting about the garlic. I've Never heard that before! Thanks!

 

[inssane]

Beefheart is sold in pet stores. Frozen

My O loved meal worms and red wigglers (both at Petsmart)

 

[phillykid]

try superworms and cricket mine love them.