Staple food for Oscars

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koldsoup

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I have my oscars on these pellets from taiwanese company and I'm about to run out. I was planning on getting Hikari pellets (cuz I hear good things about them) for them when I'm out, but there are so many kinds of cichlid pellets. Which one do you recommend? They're albino tigers by the way.
 
I switch mine between the major brands every 3 months or so. New Life Spectrum, Hikari Bio Gold+ then whaterever's on sale at PetsMart, etc. Be sure to feed things like crickets, earthworms & veggies like peas, zucchini, etc.
 
Pellet wise i fed my old monster nls and hikari cichlid bio gold. He was super healthy and chunky.
 
Thanks for the suggestions.

jworth;3950405; said:
NLS is great for the fish and Kens Fish Food is dirt cheap and nutritious as well

Which Kens Fish food do you feed oscars? There are so many of them and I really have no idea what the difference between them are...
 
TwistedPenguin;3950404; said:
I switch mine between the major brands every 3 months or so. New Life Spectrum, Hikari Bio Gold+ then whaterever's on sale at PetsMart, etc. Be sure to feed things like crickets, earthworms & veggies like peas, zucchini, etc.

My oscars don't like any vegetables. I have plecos with them so I feed veggies regularly and the oscars don't care about veggies at all. I heard that oscars eat peas but mine just spit them back out, even when I remove the shells.
 
As far as pellets go I use three different brands, Hakari Bio-Gold+, NLS Spectrum and Omega One Cichlid Pellets. I just switch them up so they don't always get one type and start to refuse the others.
 
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