Oscars

I do tend to agree with lemon albiet the fact that I have given my fish feeders in the past.

I will however follow up on what I was planning on changing out too and that is meal worms..and in the summer night crawlers.

 

A far better protein alternative anyways.

Hole in the head is usually a foul water indication most of the time.

 

Peas are GREAT!!!! That my be why you have not got HITH?! They aide in digestion and help the Oscars pass the feeders faster!

This was the diet for my Oscars:
Tetra Cichlid Jumbo Sticks
Peas
Crickets
Nightcrawlers
Random Insects found in house
Algae wafers - the Pleco and them used to fight over them and the Cichlid Sticks

 

True.... Oscars are SO hard to keep their water pristine.. .my Discus tank has < 5 Nitrates whereas the Nitrates in the Oscar tank (125 with 2 Oscars) was around 50-90 with 40% water changes sometimes 2x a week, usually 1x a week

 

We are all chemists and biologists in a way!

 

I had a feeling that was your degree!

 

Greeeeeeat!..now my wife thinks she in an oscarsexinologist!

she had to have the oscars..uh huh!.now we have a male and a female and they want to get jiggy with it. :|

 

And The rocks, and the Barb, and the Jack, and the Pleco, and the Sevs, and the glass, and th...............



you get the point I am sure.