jim r Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 Alternatives to bloodworm and prawns please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia-15 Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 freeze dried anything.. mine also loved turtle treats. it also liked glass shrimps and guppies and gold barbs and mollies... come to think of it, it ate everything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayci Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 fingers(just not mine) :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tHEcONCH Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 I feed mine a staple of Novotabs, but as mentioned anything freeze dried (other than 'river shrimp') seem to go down well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 Meal worms, feeder fish (may I suggest you start breeding guppies), Cicadas, flys (recommended to remove wings) or maggots. Anything you can catch from outside - probably even small birds - (might be stretching it a little, but I am sure my oscars would have given them a good go.) Or prepared foods from your lfs Also chopped schnitzel, heart etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 Bananas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 Cicadas are all hard shell and no goodness, might as well feed them plastic. I'd think they would do best on a staple diet of high quality pellets (hikari cichlid gold) and frizen cichlid tucker, and a wide variety of occasional treats. Just as long as they don't get too fussy! I remember reading [years ago] about oscars being prone to HITH and needing a vitamin-rich diet to help prevent it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 pellets oscars my friend has eats anyt ype of pellets, you get high protein cichlid pelets or even pond pellets oscars dotn seem to be a picky fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfax Posted February 27, 2008 Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 im sure i read that spidersweb feeds his snails. Jim how is that little oscar doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaNs Posted February 27, 2008 Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 Iv got some pellets here you can try if needed. Datnoids dont like them :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted February 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Thanks guys. Shadowfax he aint no little fella anymore he ate my kribs last week He is as big as the one I got off Hans, about 15cm at a guess and still growing. They love bloodworm but went off the frozen prawn and turn their noses up at peas and cichlid sticks. Hi Caryl, will try bananas. Mathew I have hundreds of guppies but give them to the vet centre in return for big discounts. Hans will catch up about the pellets. I will try the freeze dried thing and novotabs. Thanks again everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfax Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 glad to hear he's doing well, shame about the kribs tho 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoll Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 I alternated big cichlid pellets with chopped up marinara mix from the supermarket when growing my oscar up. The marinara mix was basically shrimp, squid, mussels etc. Seems to have taken a liking to my fingers as well of late... draws a fair bit of blood when I'm too slow. Gavin.... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted March 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Thanks Skoll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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