[Question]Can you over feed an oscar?

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I agree there are two forms of “overfeeding”… and both are completely possible…

Putting more food in the tank than the fish can eat, is obviously possible and is obviously a bad thing…

It is in the fish’s nature to eat any food that is available. It’s likely if an Oscar is offered excessive food then much of the nutrients will not even fully digest and will go to waste. If it doesn’t go to waste, then just like every creature, overeating will create other health issues. You may not see it right away but it will likely shave years off it’s life in the long run.
I’m by no means suggesting you starve the lil guy… but no need to feed him excessively either. Like most things in life… seek the balance…
 
The problem I'm often faced with is how not to overfeed my oscar while I try to get food to my various other fish >.<

My JD is worse than my oscar when it comes to shrimp though.
 
feed your oscar first like 10 min before the others...have him get a full belly so hes feeling kinda lethargic. then try to feed the other guys. feed the oscar on a diff side of the tank while you sneak some to the other fish on the other side of the tank? feed two diff foods...one a sinking and one a floating, the oscar will be at one of those spots...the other will hopefuly be at the other one.

just some ideas
 
Oh I don't have any problem feeding my other fish, I just put a bunch in at once and on either side of the tank. Everyone get something except for my white-cheek moray; he's a bit tougher. I either have to jam a piece of shrimp down (before the other fish notice) into the bong where he lives, or I take a net full of mosquitofish and just hold the end of the net over the opening, forcing the fish into the chamber. Actually, I've never seen him eat but he's been alive for about 7 months now.
 
Your moray eel is a brackish water fish. You should think about moving it into it's own tank. And start accimilating it to salt water slowly.
 
It is I acclimated them to 8 ppt. The eel was much happier after, as the store keeps everything in fresh.
 
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