Hello all, I have a 3 1/2" tiger oscar with a small green terror and small jack dempsey in my 90 gallon. I recently got back into fishkeeping somewhat seriously again and made the mistake of feeding the oscar a lot of live food when I first got it. Well needless to say it won't touch pellets now. I would just starve him till he complies but I'm worried that they other small fish may start to look like food to him. Should I just start to not feed him now or wait till I've got my other tanks set up so I can move the other fish out of harms way.
Weening Oscar off live food
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WOW... thats a small jd, i would wait to starve him, in the mean time, try live foods that float, they might attract his attention and hell get use to feeding on top of the water. like crickets, those might do him some good. or try sinking pellets if you can find any. but if you plan to starve him i would move all other fish, unless they are as big or bigger.
by the way, im about 20minutes from st.louis in a town called belleville
you?
by the way, im about 20minutes from st.louis in a town called belleville
you?
Your way down their. I visit a friends family farm to shoot and stuff every year or so by Rushville. I'm about an hour south of Chicago myself. Back on topic. Yeah the jd is pretty small. It's got some really great coloring for being so small. Which makes me think it it could be a hybrid. I feed the oscar crickets occasionaly so he's used to feeding at the top. When I give him pellets, both sinking and floating, he just looks at me like I'm an idiot though lol
well crap, i would just wait untilll you can set up another tank, .......ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY IDEAS?
i guesse wait for another tank or take your chances. my oscars were picky at first two but they love anything i throw in now like lizards.(are lizards good for fish?)
I would hurry up and get that other tank set up. SInce you're already feeding live foods, that O could decide at any time to make a meal of the JD.
