oscar food

[nicklt]

in your opinoin what would be the best thing for me to feed my five inch oscar i am currently feeding him hikari cichlid gold pellets and am planning on getting some crickets this weekend is this a good idea if so how many and are there better foods for them besides the pellets im giving him

[Oscar_freak12321]

Beefheart, bloodworms, earthworms, and other Hikari products.

[nicklt]

is it normal for them to not like cichlid flakes

[Oscar_freak12321]

Mostly. Oscars like and prefer a bit more of a natural diet, consisting of meaty foods and pellets made for oscars. One brand I like to give to my oscar is called oscar show, and my oscar loves those pellets. I wouldn't be surprised that it doesn't like flakes.

[nicklt]

i figured it was normal ive only had mine for two or three days is it still getting used to the tank or what because he doesnt eat good, only like two to four pellets each time i feed him is lettuce a good food

[Oscar_freak12321]

Hmm...well I've never heard it being fed to oscars before, but I guess it's good for their system...It is normal for an oscar to be a finicky eater for maybe the first week or so, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[nicklt]

ok thanks i will try the things u suggested and see what he likes

[Oscar_freak12321]

All right, good luck!

[fraggle]

My oscar used to eat the lettuce that I put in for my silver dollars when they were in together, it certainly won't hurt him anyways, LOL.

I don't think they like flakes either, my oscar doesn't and my sisters oscar doesn't either. Think they like something with a little more "substance". I usually feed mine NLS, but at the moment it's a mix of NLS and Hikari bio Gold plus (or Hikari Gold something like that) as they had run out of NLS and he was HUNGRY! He seems to like the food that floats better than the sinking stuff, but then I don't if that's just because he can take his time to eat it as the other fish are bottom feeders and he has to compete if they are sinking LOL. He eats both the floating and sinking with gusto (actually everything, apart from the flakes which he turned his nose up at, he eats with gusto, LOL, rice bubbles, cornflakes, sausages etc, all stuff that my kids have chucked in the tank, he makes a dive for and eats as much as he can!)