Hi there and I hope all is well with you all,

Have a question as such don't think it is a bad thing but all the same need to check this. My Oscar has a food obsession with wax worms, he loves them before i tried him on them he was way too fussy and would starve himself for days. When i tried him on them he has at least a good few each day. He seems to be growing better and looks healthier as well for some reason.

What worries me is that he is not getting all the goodness he needs from just this food. I have tried starving him to get him off them and trying another food wither it be pellet or prawn etc

Nothing he will continue to starve as far as he is concerned.

Any advice would be appreciated as i say i am worried he is not getting what he needs and trust me when i say he will go without he is one awkward damn fish:evil: hahah.

unfortunately, if an Oscar is dead set on eating one type of food, starvation is about the only way you can get him to eat other food.there are other foods that he might be tempted to eat, live shrimp, crickets, mealworms, and the beetles that hatch from them, lots of goodness in these food. However, I am also in favour of feeding Oscars and good-quality pellets at least three or four times a week so like I said at the beginning, starvation is about the only way you can get them to eat. Oscars can go for a long time without eating and if your Oscars eating perfectly okay at the moment, he's obviously nice and healthy. Give it a go, obviously I can't promise you it will work, it's just something that people have been successful with before.

i had a similar problem at one time only with beefhearts. my o's wouldn't eat anything else so i tried the tough love approach and only fed them pellets. at first they refused to eat them but after a week or so hunger go the best of them and started to eat again. now they eat anything i put in the tank.

thanks for the advice

Having an oscar eating only one type of food can be a problem because when they get old they sometimes get bored with it and stop eating it but they dont like anything else you offer. This is why a varied diet is needed. Also some foods dont offer all the nutrients they need

Starving your fish is the only option. If i was you i would feed pellets only for a week (remove any food they dont eat). Then feed them the food you know they will eat for 1 day, then starve for another week. Continue this until the fish takes the pellets. You can them try them on other types of food

A healthy oscar can go for 2 weeks without food very easily so dont worry about if the fish doesnt eat for a week