Feeding Oscars.
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If he eats it..yes it is a good source of protein. As a stand alone food item it's not the best. Yes Oscars eat smaller fish. But the fish they eat normally have some vegetable matter in their stomachs, from one source or another. Meaning they do need some veggies to have a balanced diet.
Be warned that eggs would be a messy food item adding to the bio-load of your tank. More so than most other foods.
Be warned that eggs would be a messy food item adding to the bio-load of your tank. More so than most other foods.
Pure makes good points... as always LOL. I just have to make a stronger point about the mess factor... I have used egg yolk to feed fry and it is HORRIBLY messy, with an oscar, the way they spew things from their gills, they'd be horribly messy with it. I would really avoid feeding egg, unless as a treat shortly before a water change.
My oscars get a staple of Hikari Cichlid Bio-Gold+, New Life Spectrum large/jumbo cichlid pellets, and they theive the spirulina and other sinking foods I put in for the plecs too. I give treats of mealworms, red wiggler worms, the occasional cricket, frozen foods such as krill, plankton, bloodworms, and they catch the occasional fly too LOL. Then again, I tend to spoil my fish LOL. I also throw in a small fish or two once in a while, but I never buy feeder fish, just overpopulation of young fish, bullies that pick on my favorites, or old fish who seem to be suffering from old age alone.
My point, they're not real picky, LOL. What is the reasoning for planning on feeding egg? Just curious...
My oscars get a staple of Hikari Cichlid Bio-Gold+, New Life Spectrum large/jumbo cichlid pellets, and they theive the spirulina and other sinking foods I put in for the plecs too. I give treats of mealworms, red wiggler worms, the occasional cricket, frozen foods such as krill, plankton, bloodworms, and they catch the occasional fly too LOL. Then again, I tend to spoil my fish LOL. I also throw in a small fish or two once in a while, but I never buy feeder fish, just overpopulation of young fish, bullies that pick on my favorites, or old fish who seem to be suffering from old age alone.
My point, they're not real picky, LOL. What is the reasoning for planning on feeding egg? Just curious...
First of all thanks for your advice.
My oscar is growing fastly. He no longer eats the food that i was using from the day i bought oscar. He simply spits everything.
I feel he need some fresh food. Thought of feeding chicken but Im a veggie and i cant keep meat (chicken meat) and feed it. Also I cant see my oscar preying on some small feeder fish. So thought eggs would come for my help.
My oscar is growing fastly. He no longer eats the food that i was using from the day i bought oscar. He simply spits everything.
I feel he need some fresh food. Thought of feeding chicken but Im a veggie and i cant keep meat (chicken meat) and feed it. Also I cant see my oscar preying on some small feeder fish. So thought eggs would come for my help.
What foods have you tried? My O's eventually spit their origional Hikari Staple (the green kind) so I switched them to Hikari Gold (the red kind) and they loved it, then they started to spit that, and I went to the Hikari Bio Gold+ and they haven't spit that yet at all, but I do vary their diet. I would suggest trying other prepaired foods and seeing how they react before turning to something as messy and nutritionally limited as eggs, Oscars are messy enough without help, LOL.