my oscar is about 10cms long n im feeding him about half a cm cube of bloodworm twice a day n he polishes it off in a few seconds.he loves it but is it enough and what else will he eat thanx

He needs a high quality pellet which you feed him twice a day,bloodworm can be given once a week as a treat but you really need to get him on to a quality pellet.Pellet is staple the rest is supplimentry or treats.

I would encourage you to feed him on various other types of food. Try floating pellets, shrimps, frozen fish from the fish shop, cockles, food sticks like Tetra dorimin, large krill, mealworms, crickets, earthworms etc etc. As for how much, if I was feeding pellets, I would normally drop three or four in at a time, let the Oscar eat all of them and do it again for a couple of minutes. My Oscars are nearly 9 inches now so don't be tempted to overfeed yours. I think it's easy to get paranoid about how much you feed an Oscar. To make it easy for you, just do it for two or three minutes. But like I said, don't pile a load of pellets at all at once, feed them gradually. If I'm feeling my Oscars shrimp or small fish (not live feeder fish) I normally give them three or four each. If they are fairly big, your Oscar could eat 2 quite easily in one sitting.

u need to feed your oscar until his belly is a little rounded, i feed my oscar small shrimps, small white fish, bloodworms and tubifex dried worms, my Tiger doesn't eat pellets. i feed him twice a day.

feed him various foods as oscars r known to go off a surtin food and then u battle 2 get him eating.

crickets,blood worms,earth worms,pellets,shrimps,peas

peas vbaby.sorry frozen out of the freezer of do they need th be fresh from the fruit n vegie shop.thanx jo

also is there other vegies you r safe to feed him

Vary the diet. Pellets, garden worms, maggots, lance fish, krill, defrosted prawns, meal worms, any insects you can get, muscles, any small fish from the fishmonger like spratts. Some oscar will eat peas and some wont. Once a week i feed peas and those that dont want them dont eat. Its no bad thing if they dont eat everyday as oscar are predators and in the wild they dont get to eat everyday

I feed maggots on mon and tues, worms or prawns or small fish (from the fish monger) weds, pellets thurs, fri and sat and peas(if they will eat them if not nothing) sun

I have heard of other veggies being fed but have no experience myself

thanx again to everyone. have now brought him correct pellets n shrimp n brine frozen mix.he wasnt very exited with the pellet as he has been with the bloodworms but he will have to just get use to it. you see the pet store i got him from told me i only had to feed him bloodworm so lucky i joined this site as that info wasnt correct.i went to a different pet store to get his pellets i dont think i will return to the origional one

hi ofl how offten do you feed you oscars do you feed them everyday or every 2 days on the other page delboybully said about 6 large pellets each will do.i feed them on hikari gold and staple

hi i feed him 2 times a day and one 1 pellet but i only have one fish.

I feed my fish just once a day. I don't count how many pellets, I just put three or four in and let the fish eat it, I do that for two or three minutes. Sometimes the Oscars swim away when they've had enough, other times they want more, but they don't get it.