Well i got him yesterday, he's in a 20 gal grow out tank for a month or so til i get my new 55g, Today i fed him frozen blood worms and put some baby guppys in with him, I will not feed him goldfish or anything like that because of HITH, so give me name brands or something of the sort

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There is loads of information for you on the website regarding feeding.

I would forget live fish, don't let him get into the habit of eating them. Guppies probably hold hardly any nutrition whatsoever. Bloodworm is okay for small Oscars, they will still eat it when they're older but it's not much of a meal. Good quality pellets are what you should be feeding. Hikari & Tetra make a huge variety of pellets, many of them are designed especially for cichlid's. Do a search for Hikari and you'll find what you're looking for.

If you go to your fish store, they'll probably sell lots of frozen food as well. I would recommend shrimps and krill, Oscars loved them and they contain lots of goodness.

Get Hikari floating cichlid pellets. They are great for oscars. Also, try not to feed your new oscar minnows too often. They arnt the best thing for oscars. Only feed them as a treat every now and then.
Hope this helps.

i have fed my oscar pellets since i bought her as a staple with blood worms and nightcrawlers and krill and brine shrimp as treats and such... just what i feed mine hope it helps

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Wow tihs website has improved so much since i last came o__o, Fastest response ever haha, anyway that's what I'll do but it a bag of hikari floating pellets, also by frozen shrimp do you mean the large ones that humans would eat or small ones?

ROFL no your local fish store should have frozen brine shrimp usually in cubes or a slab...

Haha thanks thats what i was wondering, what about live brine shrimp?

hernanlol wrote:


Shrimp is shrimp, it will be fit for human consumption. What you probably find some times is shrimp that is too small to be sold in the supermarkets so it's packaged up for fish. Alternatively there are lots of companies who catch live fish/krill/shrimp and sell it for fish bait and fish food

you'll find as your oscar grows brine shrimp will become to small to feed him. at that point i switched to shrimp rings and feed them that as treats.

Thanks for all the info guys ^_^

hernanlol wrote:

well done. the color is vibrant, which means he/she remains healthy.

welcome to the forum.