Feeding Your Oscar

Oscar fish produce a lot of waste as it is and adding excess food can cause problems related to pollution and disease. Only feed the Oscar fish as much as it can eat in about two minutes and only once a day.

Diet

Contrary to what some people might say feeder goldfish are not a very nutritious food, and they are a good way to spread disease to your beloved Oscars.  If you are going to feed feeder fish they should be quarantined or raised by you, and certain types of feeders, e.g. Goldfish, are not desirable due to high fat content.

Feed your Oscar a varied diet of pellet food that contains supplemental vitamins such as Hikari's Staple, Gold, Biogold, New Life Spectrum or Omega One and supplement it with vitamins. Also feed a combination of processed, freeze dried and frozen food.  As a treat feed you can feed your Oscar live bugs, earth worms, grasshoppers, beetles, chicken, or hamburger.