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Are there any specific foods that would help Oscars? I feel like such a bad parent for not catching it sooner. I've already increased water changes. I switched from Hikari Gold to the food sticks which he LOVES. For some reason, he refuses the green Hikari Staple and will only eat floating red food :confused: He loves shrimp pellets too, but just absolutely turns his nose up at the green ones. I don't get it.

But anyways, are there any other specific foods yall would recommend that I add?
 
I moved your post here from a disease thread so you can get better responses.:)
 
for not catching what hith?
 
I'm assuming also that you mean Hole In The Head? The general concensus is to keep nitrates below 20 ppm, feed a good staple (Hikari, New Life Spectrum, etc), don't forget the veggies (peas, zucchini, etc) and use a good vitamin like Vita-Chem 3 or 4 times a week.
If you're not talking about HITH then scratch the above :-)
 
I have my O's on a mixed diet and they are growing fast and have good bright red colors in the areas of their body where it is based on pattern. I have one that is almost all black with very few red markings and one that is heavily striped with red. I have them on:
Omega one flakes
Hikari Gold floating color pellets
Beef Heart cubes (homemade which is a lot cheaper)
Basic recipe, Beef heart ground up really good, peas, spinach and some of their flakes for texture. Flattened in a bag and froze it. Cut into bite size pieces when I feed it to them to keep tank polution down. They go WILD over this. I am going add some red seaweed in the next batch as I understand that is good for them and easier to digest than spinach.

I do give feeders but only as a treat and exercise as I call it. Once every month or so but never all of the time.

Hope this helps.
 
Yeah, sorry guys. I didn't realize my post had been moved, but the conversation was about HITH. You are correct.

I did have him on Hikari Gold and switched to Hikari staple and he refuses to eat it (used to the color red, I guess?). Then I tried Tetra Cichlid sticks. He won't eat flakes either. I was looking for something to supplement Tetra Cichlid sticks and shrimp pellets.

Thanks for all responses :)
 
Fresh foods. Try earthworms, mussels, peas, zuchinni (some don't like it), frozen thawed krill, shrimp. I squish little peices of shrimp dry with a paper towel and soak it in vitamins in a little cup to get the vitamins in them. If he liked Bio-Gold I'd use that as a staple. That's one of the best pellet food there is.
 
Ok, next question: Where can I find good vitamins? There's no decent lfs around here, only chains and the girl looked at me crazy when I asked her if they had fish vitamins (I was looking for Vita Chem). She'd never even heard of it. Le sigh.
 
Well i feed my o's a variety of things.... hikari cichlid gold, crickets, lots of earthworms, mealworms, peas, krill..... and about the vitamins a got a tip from an oscar owner at a tatoo shop, he said to use normal human multivitamins and soak some food in it or put it in some of their food. it stopped the HITH in one of my o's.
 
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