Oscar feeding frenzy.

[iron]

Well I don't know what happened to my little oscars. These two monsters have taken over. I can not seem to cram enough food down their throats. Typically they fed once a day and a small amount of food. Right now, I think they are in a growth phase where they are dying to get food like every 2 hours. Not a small amount of food either. The are taking in a handful of pellets each feeding.
My crays can't grow that fast. lol So if you want to get rid of some young fish fast. I have just the place for you. If you want to get rid of marbled crays, again I have just the spot for you. I have a 55 along side of the Oscar tank that is acting as a holding station for the food. Its fairly empty now. I have about 1000 marbled crays growing to their death in the house. lol
I think I will take a few pics and add them to the forum. The last time yall seen them they were like 2 inches long and that was last June I think. My pleco is hug as well. Hes around a year old and about 13 inches.

[kleankord]

nice. a thou crays? wanna part with a few?

[iron]

In about a month I will. All the fry are about 1/4 inch at the moment.

[OOwl]

You might try a food with more dense calories to satisfy your oscars more. I added Massivore Delite to my oscar's diet and offer it to them every other day (the other days they eat their regular diet of Hakari Bio-Gold pellets soaked in vitamins, and then frozen silversides 2x a week). Each pellet of the MD supposedly has the nutrition of 1.8 goldfish. My oscars LOVE this food, but I give it to them more as a treat than anything else.

[iron]

I have quite the collection of jewel cichlids for the Oscars to play with now. Not to mention I feed them Oscar show which they love. They have grown at least an inch or more in the last month. They are trying to be giants now. lol Once they get the crays, they will be in hog heaven. Im shooting for 20 inches each. Oh, and they are both males. :( Which makes the fighting thing obvious now. However, the tiger is outgrowing the albino now. In the last week or two he shot up and out quite a bit. I am hoping with the better water quality that they will really take off for me.
So if someone has a tiger female and wants an albino male, let me know. My albino is really nice looking. Hes a bit aggressive with the other male though. A battle he is slowly losing.
Did you still want some marbled crays Oowl? I bought 3 and they made about 200 or so babies. I actually tried to count them last night. Keep in mind, they grow faster than anything I had ever seen before. So once hatched, in less than a month I imagine and they will be feeder size.
I am thinking I will run 6 adults to keep the circle of life going. They might be great food for angels as well.

[OOwl]

Dave, my oscars are kinda scardy cats. When they were younger, I gave them ghost shrimp from time to time. Two of them ended up being baby prawns and they wouldn't TOUCH them. They grew HUGE and I had to BEG people to come get them (and they were pretty scary to catch out of the tank). So, I think I'll pass on feeding them live shrimp. Ocassionally, I'll give them crickets or mealworms, but that's only for their birthday or Christmas. :) I am thinking both of mine are probably females (which I'm glad about; I don't really want to try to find suitable homes for 500 baby oscars several times a year). Mouth wrestling is minimal but they both clean a flat rock in my tank. Most of the time they are pretty docile with one another and are less destructive to the tank contents than previous oscars I've kept. I'm hoping they are about full grown now (the Veiltails don't usually get as large as the regulars, all that inbreeding, I guess). They are about 10" or so. I didn't know oscars got 20".
Right now my angels are getting a steady supply of albino BN babies. Two pairs are producing in my 58 and the angels eat their babies on "freedom from the cave day" every time.

[iron]

Mine won't mouth wrestle a bit. Its just striking each other in the gut or head.
These are crayfish. So there is no way they wont love them. Its a natural food for them.
Oscars have been rumored to 22 inches in the wild. No one has provided any evidence so far. I am on The Oscar Spot and there are collections reaching over 16 inches. Which that makes an Oscar flat out huge. Video links to the huge fish as well. One guy produced an 18 inch Oscar.
I'm not looking for babies either I just want peace. If they spawn, I would just give the fry to my catfish. Its a circle of life.

[masroberts9]

oscars are supposed to grow about an inch per month until the reach something like 12 inches. my oscar went through those stages. it would hardly eat one day then scarf everything the next. when i was feeding live food to it i could drop 10 or 12 1" fish in and they would dissappear in minutes. on other days it may only 3 per day. if that happened i just left the feeders in the tank and waited until they got eaten before feeding any more.

[haiphan02]

oscars are cool.

[orbitup]

June bugs are starting to come around. You have a free supply of food for them for a few more months.

[Edog610]

here's a happy oscar at work:
YouTube- "Deucey" 8/27/2010

Edog610 added 1 Minutes and 27 Seconds later...

whoops, wrong vid. Here's the right one:
YouTube- "Deucey" 8/27/2010

[zekni]

Isn't that why oscars are considered so messy? Because they could eat until they pop all day every day?

[Edog610]

yup... both of mine eat anything that can fit in their mouths