i know most of us want to give the best foods for their
fishes. i for one is keep on trying something new for my
oscar and pagnagasius as well. aside from the normal formulated
feeds available from the lfs, here are some of my feeds:

I just got back from fishing and bought some large shrimp for my catfish hooks, my O's are a bit finicky, but I may try to dice one up and see what they do?

try it... i am sure you will be amazed how they will grab
them. but my o's prefer the live small shrimp (1.5 to 2 inches)
survivor got that scrape when he chased the shrimp underneath the
coral....

btw, please try it with shell on.

we started feeding ours with cichlid staple, and a little of gold for the colour ,then to give them a change found some worms in our garden,they loved them,but this morning they did not want the pellets so tried a small piece of banana and they did not touch that ,looks like i might have to go worm hunting again ,they are plentifull in uk because it rain alot lol

Trader Sam wrote:

do you live near the lake or river bank? i used to
catch catfish during my boyhood time... i missed it.

My Oscar was fed up with ALL food , until 3 weeks ago I tried some mealworm-larvae and he went crazy for them.
Now he switched to eating the small mealworms again, and eats his belly round!
What a strange fish an Oscar is when it comes to eating.
Mine just wants his menu switched every several months.

I live by the largest river in the USA, the mighty Mississippi, I used to commercial fish, but now a poor construction worker

Actually I should clarify this The Ohio river is the longest, but Mississippi is the biggest, I beleive this is coreect data,

Trader Sam wrote:

so you do put the shrimp in the hook (several hooks),
spoke the pole to the ground and left them behind,
after few hours, visit them back and harvest
the catch and put new bait again.....
that is how we do it then....

It must be fun wathing your O go hunt the shrimp down
Mine loves them but I never had any live ones to feed.
He doesn't care for dead fish or pallets though..

Well last night I took out my large 10 foot river poles and hooked those shrimp right on there, I had to guy the shrimp frozen, hard to get fresh around here, other than frozen, these were approxiamately 3 inches long (the shrimp) BTW I didn't catch nuttin, they weren't bitting due to drastic climate change here in the ST.Louis area

i can sit in front of my tanks for two hours just dropping
the live shrimp in there (2 to 3 pcs) and watch the o's chasing
them. i love to see the race and the splashing.