How many times should I feed my Oscar?

[Eli916]

My Oscar is around say 3 inches and growing and right not i feed him pellets. I got him 6 days ago and I have been feeding him once at the same time around 5 pellets +/-. Is this enough to be feeding him? and should I feed him more then once a day. THANKS FOR UR HELP!

 

[colesea]

Baby oscars should be fed more often, more like three to four times a day. Their metabolism is much faster than an adult's and needs more fuel for growth and development. Subliment your baby's diet with meats such as beefheart, shrimp/prawn, bloodwoorms. They are carnivors and babies especially need more protien.
~~Colesea

 

[Eli916]

thanks so much for reponding...but i was wondering when ur saying about the balanced diet with the bloodworms and shrimp and everything would that be like the freeze-dried bloodworms and shrimp cube things(OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS FOR ANYONE!)

 

[colesea]

I'm a fan of frozen foods and perfer to use those since they are more nutritious than freeze-dried. Fresh of course is the best. Oscar diets should =not= consist exclusively of feeder fish (goldfish, minnows, guppies etc). Oscars can get nutritional diseases due to unhealthy feeder fish as well as the parasites that those feeder fish usually carry.

Use the pellets as the regular diet 3-4 times a day since they are the most nutritionally balanced. Once or twice a week give him a frozen cube (or half cube, whatever he'll eat) instead of one of his pellet feedings. Thaw the cube before you feed to make measuring out the ration easier. Most oscars can be taught how to eat from a feeding stick, although one as young as yours may be hand-tamable. Just be aware that if you don't hand tame your Oscar properly you may loose a finger or two when he gets older<G>.
~~Colesea

 

[hangdogdaddy12]

we feed our oscer everytime he go's to the top of the tank when we are watching the fish he is growing at a good rate when we get the bag of pellets he go'w right to the top and sometime will stick his head up out of the water wanting the food so we feed him about 4 to 5 times a day like Colesea does and to keep him feed will lower the chances of the smaller fish of getting eaten by the oscer

 

[Franky099]

I feed mine every time he gives me that pitiful look.....Id say 3-4 times a day. I got mine this past spring....he was maybe 3 inches then.....he is about 10 inches now.

Amy