If it’s too small for you to inject liquid vitamin with a needle, it’s too small for your Oscar. A common practice amongst Oscar enthusiasts is to inject these foods with a fish specific vitamin product, such as Boyd’s VitaChem (diabetic type needles/syringes can be bought online or purchased at Walgreens, provided they don’t think you are a drug addict.) In fact, this concept can help you determine what frozen food to feed your Oscar.
You can also use fresh or frozen shrimp (the same stuff you buy for yourself) as well as the myriad of frozen krill and shrimp products that are available in the hobby. If you are not one to feed live foods, SeaChem manufactures NutriDiet, which is a way to introduce “live type” foods without them actually being alive. Pellets that contain probiotics can help minimize this risk but the best option is to include supplemental foods with higher levels of moisture. The problem with an Oscar’s diet that consist exclusively of dried foods, such as pellets, is that this can contribute to constipation, which can contribute to blockage, which can contribute to bloat, which can cause death. So, by feeding a single, carefully selected pellet food, we can simulate (not duplicate) and even improve upon the diet of a wild Oscar. Many Oscars are lost every year from bloat and the “unknown” cause of many of these bloat ailments is the fish ingested gravel, the gravel caused blockage and resulting death. Why? Because I don’t want to run the risk of my fish ingesting the substrate by mistake.
I don’t want anything on the substrate of the aquarium that my fish is going to eat. Floating or Sinking?įinally, I prefer a floating pellet to a sinking one. You can also use frozen or freeze dried krill as a supplemental food to achieve this benefit. Krill and shrimp shells (krill preferred) naturally contain high levels of Astaxanthin, so if Astaxanthin is not listed in the ingredient list but krill or shrimp are, it’s covered. _fish pellet_ Food to enhance Oscar ColorsĪ pellet that contains high levels of Astaxanthin will help produce those vivid red colors in our Oscars. When feeding Oscars, a quality pellet should be your primary choice, even for juvenile/baby Oscars (get a small pellet). Flake foods are nutritionally inferior to pellet foods and finding a flake big enough for an Oscar is difficult. So, don’t plan on flakes being the primary component of your Oscar’s diet. Cheap pellet food will not!įlake foods are not considered as acceptable foods for an Oscar.
There are many available and each (quality pellet) will contain enough of the necessary proteins, vitamins, and plant/algae to provide your Oscar with the necessary nutrition. The primary component of your Oscar fish’s diet should consist of a quality pellet.
Not because they seek out these foods and eat them, but because these are the gut contents of their prey. In addition to fruit, a significant component of a wild Oscar’s diet consists of algae and green plants. As a result, Oscars have a high dietary requirement for Vitamin C. Oscar are not carnivores (animals which eat only meat.) In the wild, a significant component of an Oscar’s diet is fruit that has fallen into the water. Keep that in mind when selecting tankmates. Oddly enough, the primary fish prey of Oscars in the wild are catfish. Oscars are not piscivores (carnivorous animals which eat primarily fish.) Fish actually comprise a minor portion of their diet. The major portion of a wild Oscar’s diet consists of insects and crustaceans such as freshwater shrimp and crawfish.
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