What's On the Menu for Your Oscar?

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Jack Dempsey
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Well, what do you feed your oscars? I know they will eat like pigs but what selections of foods are you giving them and what their favorites? Mine eat hikari food sticks, chiclid gold pellets, freeze dried shrimp-brine shrimp-bloodworms, tetramins, sinking carnavore pellts, shrimp pellets, frozen bloodworms-beefheart and today I had them eat some fresh sashimi grade pacific blue marlin caught hours earlier at the pier here in hawaii.
 
Shrimp, smelt, pellets, krill, and beefheart mainly. Sometimes I throw peas in with the other food to trick them into eating them
 
i feed my oscars almost anything, live worms ,ghost shrimp, crickets, mealworms, rosyreds(tuffies), minnows, snails, and crayfish, i even give them thawd shrimp that i buy for myself from wal-mart, however i don't under any circumstance feed them goldfish, it promotes Hole In Head Disease. it should be noted that the above menu items are treats not their main diet any type ciclid pellet will do for day to day feedings....i've also heard of people feeding O's grasshoppers, and pinky mice.
 
Hikari gold/staple, oscar show pellets, HBH supersoft, Wardleys, Night crawlers, superworms, crayfish, raw chicken... yesterday one of my O's ate a carrot I dropped in the tank for my pleco...
 
Mine get hikari cichlid,wardley sinking pellets, bloodworms,beefheart and an occasional goldfish!!! I got them both 1 month ago at about 1.5" and now the tiger O is 4" and the Red is about 3.5". Baby Monsters:D
 
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