HI EVERYONE
my 2 12" albinos have gone off pellets since i gave them frozen bloodworms also so have severum and shark cat jack dempsy still has both but is it ok to keep giving bloodworm or will it be bad for them and water and filters thankyou in advance

This is not uncommon, Oscars often go food for my apparent reason. You could try the starvation technique, this often gets them back into eating certain foods. However, since fish is so small I would like it to go without food for too long so maybe don't leave it for one day and then see if it will accept pellet. You could try a different shape and variety of pellet, you may find it will eat them. However, sometimes fish just will not eat a certain type of food no matter how hard you try to get them to give in.

thanks the fish are (oscars) 12" sorry way the i put size of fish so does this make a diffrence

At that size you could let them go hungry

I see, 12 inches, that's a whole different ballgame then. I've got one Oscar that under any circumstances will not touch Tetra Dorimin, all of my other fish cannot get enough of these pellets, but this little bugger just turns its nose up at them. He went nearly 2 weeks once without eating because I tried starving him by just feeding the other fish on these pellets. As soon as I put another type of food in he was on them like a shot, so I knew there was nothing wrong with him.

Stop feeling for about three days, if he won't eat them after then, try something else and forget those pellets with him because he will probably never eat them.

thanks all ive noticed the female one has started to chase my jack dempsey wich she has never done before just gave them some prawns and she as calmed down for know

Try starving them for a week, then feed them what they will eat and then starve for a week. If he dont eat pellets after that then just accept he wont eat pellets and you will have to find other foods to feed them. It is expensive to feed bloodworms to oscar. Check out the feeding section on what foods you can give to oscars, examples are prawns, maggots, garden worms, mealworms, insects, muscles

I unfortunatly have one of the Oscars that won't touch a pellet.
I actually think he would starve to death before he would eat one.
The way I got around this was to gutload Crickets with ground up Hikari Gold,
mixed with cricket food.He just ate 7 Crickets.

Mine ete ciclid stick as a baby but never ate any pellets anymore.
Just worms and bugs for over a year now.
Now 2 days ago he ate some Hikari algae wafers, that were intended for my pleco.
Yesterday i throw in some hikari gold pellets and he dashes at the and eats them with much taste.
Today i tried again and he ate a whole bunch.
No forcing him, he just started to eat them.
Oscars are strange fish...with even stranger eating habits.
First fish i ever had that asks for a change in his diet.lol

THANKS ive just noticed they have white spot have slowley raised temp to just over 80 just wondered how long to keep at that temp i dont want use chemicals has have a silver shark cat i have cleaned sand today and will do the same tomorrow but would some advice before i go any futher thanks in advance peter

albino peter wrote:

i suggest you create new topic with your concern so that members will react
and give advices accordingly...