I used to feed him a diet of krill/brine shrimp and oscar grow. now that he’s about 8 inches i just bought HBH oscar SHOW and some meal worms for a varied diet. Is oscar show good for them? i plan to breed meal worms to keep him fed till the day he dies. so are meal worms a good choice? if not which food do you suggest? he’s had HITH before when i fed him feeder fish quite a lot of months ago so don’t suggest feeder fish!
oh i still feedd him krill and brine shrimp as well for a little variety i tried meal worms. i highly doubt any of the horror stories of meal worms would happen to me because they usually drown to death before he actually eats them. or i drown them myself.
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I hear a lot on here about oscars eating out of their hand and letting the owner pet them, but mine usually avoids my hand, but notices me when i walk up to feed him and ignores strangers. Once put my hand in he just doesn’t get near it 
. I feed him and a jack dempsey live food like bloodworms, krill, brine shrimp. I take really good care of it and i’ve had it for well over a year or so. Any oscar owners or fih know-it-alls have any tips to get him to eat out of my hand?
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He hasn’t been able to close his mouth for almost two weeks and he is getting very skinny compared to my other one. I pulled him out of the water and tried to see if there was something stuck in his mouth and I am not able to find anything. I was physically able to push his mouth shut but it just comes back open. He desperately tries to eat, but he just can’t keep any of his food down. I am wondering if I can take him out of the water once or twice daily and feed him with a syringe or something? I hope not forever but until he gets control of his mouth again? I don’t know what else to do. I have tried flake food, pellets and brine shrimp but nothing seems to g down very well.
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I am feeding 7 day old baby Oscar fry fresh hatched brine shrimp. While watching them feed I see several squirming things swimming among the fry. They are smaller, but at first glance look like very small fry. They are much bigger than the brine shrimp. I can see them a little better with a magnifying glass. After being removed from the tank they appear more “wormy” either dark green or black. I have tried to Google images but got no where. I yanked ‘em out and put ‘em in a jar with their own brine shrimp…thought maybe if they survive I could identify them better. Any ideas? parasite, larvae??? Wonder if I’m introducing them along with the brine shrimp or if they were there and I’m just now noticing…eeewww!
Well, I am kinda ruling out fish lice.Looked at a couple sites…not relating much. Much more wormy looking, and squiggles at the top of the water. These things are definitely visible but small enough to not get a lot of detail. I don’t see any legs but the body seems a bit like the dragonfly body…thing is I am in the middle of the suburbs no water sources other than my tank and spring hasn’t really hit here. hmmm. My adults seem perfectly healthy, no signs of any ailments. No problems until I put in the brine shrimp but may not have a thing to do with it. Just don’t want to have some nasty stuff in the tank.
Okay, maybe we’re on to something here. The Midge thing seems to fit. I am seeing a few of those flying insects…the larvae is about as long as they are!..So everything should be cool?http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/biodiversity/invert/midges.html
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I have a pair of 7-8 year old Oscars. They have their second batch of successfully hatched fry (free swimming for a day now.) The first batch has one surviver that is in it’s own tank. I know that I could remove them from their parents for a bigger # to survive but as a hobbyist, I have little resources of “takers” when the fry are big enough. I need suggestions with good filtration without sucking up the babies…I have tried panty hose on the end of my bio-filter tube but that doesn’t prevent fry from getting stuck to it. I also could use good suggestions for feeding them. I use brine shrimp and have used crushed flakes. With them in a big tank..how can I ensure they are finding the food?
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