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TOPIC: attractive and fun breeder to use as Oscar food
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attractive and fun breeder to use as Oscar food 9 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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Hi,
I am new to the forum, so far it seems like a great place.
Ive got a oscar that is getting too big for his own britches. I want to start feeding him live and dont want feeders from LFS I want to breed myself to ensure quality meals. I am considering guppies, cardinal tetras, and a few others any suggestions on a good breeder that would have a good nutritional content for my oscar but yet also be somewhat pretty to enjoy.
Open to all suggestions thanks
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Re:attractive and fun breeder to use as Oscar food 9 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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I have never bred live food for my Oscars. I would have thought you would have to have an awful lot of parents to actually keep with a good feeding regime. You've also got to remember that fish take time to grow, so I suppose you would have to have the fish breeding at different intervals so you would have a steady supply of fish. I certainly wouldn't want to enter into this type of feeding regime, I think it will be an awful lot of work to go through when there's plenty of food available off the shelf and out of the freezers.
If it was a choice between guppies and tetras, I would definitely go for guppies, they grow a lot bigger than tetras. A very large Oscar would need quite few tetras for just one meal
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Re:attractive and fun breeder to use as Oscar food 9 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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I dont feed live fish to my oscars as i think its cruel, however if you are gonna breed fish to feed to an oscar i would suggest guppies simple because they are so easy to breed.
If you are gonna feed live fish to oscars dont do it too often. In the wild oscars mostly eat insects, You can see from their shape that they are not built as a hunter of fish (fish that eat other fish tend to be torpedo shaped). A suggestion would be to feed fish to oscars once a week
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Re:attractive and fun breeder to use as Oscar food 9 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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Yup im with the boys.go for guppies.
ive got heaps of guppies they breed without any effort and hv 100's of babys at a time.
if you can get a three foot or 4foot tank that u can divid by 4.have 4females and one male in a compartment once she off loads move her and the male into their own space.they will start breeding agaiin by the time the second batch has arrived the first batch will be ready for feeding 2 O's.
always keep sum of the fry to breed with as the intial female will need a break without any males after she has produced babies.
if u overbreed with her u will start gettin deformed babies or she will just die during labour.
4 split in a tank is the way to go just keep moving them around and u should be sweet.
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DONT BUY ON IMPULSE DO SUM HOMEWORK FIRST
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