we seem to be having a garden slug boom in me garden at the moment can i feed them to my oscar?? i know you can feed worms but i dont see a slug in the same way i see a worm!!!!

My thoughts exactly. They seem too slimy to me. However oscars can and do eat snails, and slugs are just snails without the shell. So I suppose its ok to feed slugs to oscars. Hopefully someone who knows or feeds slugs to oscars will have their say.

i gave one to my Oscar he ate it and was fine after it but it gets the slime on your plants for a little while so its pretty messy.

i do have plenty of slugs in my garden but not comfortable giving
them to my o. worms, crikets, and caterpillar are always on the go
for them

lol slugs are gross! atleast with snails u can pick them up by something that isnt slimy!

One other thing is that garden snails and slugs absorb any pesticides very easily.
My O eats them, but I quit giving them after I read an article about snails and slugs.
I wanted to feed garden snails to my Puffer fish, but I only feed him the ones I bred myself now.
Huge bugs are still a favorite for my O, like maybugs.

hey... clue me in on the snail breeding, i need help because i want to do just that for my own GSP's, i cant get my black mystery snails to do it and ive even lowered my tank 4" so they got a place to lay. im thinking i may have two snails of the same sex.

I'm only breeding small snails, my Puffer is kinda dwarfy!
All i know is to put in some plants and feed them some custom fishfood flakes.
And do some WC.
Add some cucumber or zuchinni slices and things should work.

Don't know if it's the same with big snails.
And my Puffer still eats the snails quicker then I can breed them.

what species do you have?

I've never fed slugs to an Oscar but they make fantastic chub bait

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i believe it is not chub bait but club bait
if you happen to have a golden snail, you will find it hard to
control their propagation..... it is now a menace to some degree
in our farmland in the area.