For all other fish it's the rule of as much food as they can finish in 2 minutes.

What about for oscars?

I have the large Hikari Cichlid Gold pellets.
The oscars are about 8" each.
How many pellets is enough for them to eat?
Can they overeat?
How many pellets did you feed your oscars at this length?
How long are these pellets supposed to last me with two oscars?

Thanks in advance.

what you can do is feed your Oscars until their stomach is showing that they have eaten something. however, I tend to feed my Oscars a few pellets at a time for two or three minutes. You are better to underfeed your Oscar than overfeed it so don't worry yourself thinking that the Oscar has to have the exact amount of food.

Oscars are very fussy fish, sometimes they will gorge themselves on pellets, other times they will eat a few and then starts spitting bits out. As soon as they start doing that, they don't get any more food

its eas to over feed and they will just mess up yr water quality.

my Oscars r very greedy and would everything i put it there and 60% of it will cum out their gills and go to waste.

Try and suppliment there diet too.

I generally feed mine slowely to see how much he will eat before he loses interest.

I feed mine a few pellets at a time and wait to see if their still interested.

My oscars usually swim away to the bottom of the tank when theyve had enough (i guess their letting the food digest).

Try to mix it up aswel with crickets or brine shrimp, im totally against using LFS feeders as they tend to carry various diseases due to ill breeding.

However no two oscars are the same and each one has a different personality.

I feed my O's several times a day but only a
small amount each time. Usually pellets but once or
twice a week I will give them krill and other foods.

Well, mine will eat when he is hungry, but, when he isn't, will spit quite a bit out through his mouth or expel out the gills.

Also, when he really isn't hungry, he will ignore the pellet when I put it in and still beg thinking that will work at getting him a piece of krill or a cube of bloodworms.

I have learned to only give bloodworms (frozen) after a water change, for now he expects it, and there is no sulking once it is complete, he just starts begging, sometimes as it is still filling back up. Much easier on me, since I don't have to see him act scared or pouty for extended periods of time.

I try to give krill (freeze dried) after taking pictures, this way he knows that when he is aggravated by this weird box that sometimes flashes bright light in his eyes, he will be given a treat afterwards. It seems to reduce the stress of the picture session when he knows he gets something in return for my bothering him in the end.

I use their greed and appetite to my advantage

I also feed Hikari ... exclusively.

I am about to go through a hard battle of wills with my O. I am switching him from Large Hikari Cichlid Gold pellets to the Medium Hikari Cichlid Bio-Gold+. He doesn't care for the smaller pellets, but they contain nearly double the vitamin content, and can be bought online cheaper than the Cichlid Gold in the store. I will have to be stronger and more patient than he is in a week or two once the large pellets are extinguished.

I feed the hikari mini pellets at the moment and keep to the couple of minutes rule of thumb.
Some time my fish will eat them one at a time,other times he goes on a trolly dash and stores the pellets in his mouth,so their gone in a quicker time.

My fish is growing good,so im sticking to it

my oscar doesn't eat pellets at all, i am feeding him shrimps, small fish, bloodwroms and tubifex. he requires 1 or 2 large meal everyday, when he is full he stops eating automatically, he is 4.5" now.

for an 8 inch oscar i would give 4 large hikari pellets

If you are worried this isnt much put a pellet in a glass of water and look at how big it has swelled up to after an hour

You need to find a way to add in some fiber to that diet ... too much protein can cause problems in the long term. Right now he is still rather small and young, so it is fine.

Introducing and adjusting him to pellets, fruits, and veggies now will be much easier to do than in the future.

They do get a good dose of plant material in the wild, and are not just pure carnivores/piscavores ... they are omnivorous.

You will also find once he gets older (around 9" give or take) ... the appetite will reduce, and you will see a lot more finicky behavior if over-fed.

Within a week, mine went from being a piggy with just about anything, to trying to be super selective while begging ... and only touching pellets once a day when he was truly hungry.