best oscar cichlid food?

[ambitionz]

what is the best oscar food ? i am giving my oscars cichlid gold they love it but it gives them a red color in their fins :confused: and i dont like seeing those colors on my albino :mad: :D

[ambitionz]

:rolleyes:

[kewlkatdady]

food isn't going to draw an unnatural color...

alot of albinos get the red...

[ambitionz]

food isn't going to draw an unnatural color...

alot of albinos get the red...


some reviews on petsmart said that i was cause of the food... theyre showing the same red color of the food :confused:

[kewlkatdady]

i wouldn't believe shit from petsmart...

just my $.02

[biggin]

I believe it is Krill that is good at bringing red out in fish....

[sap]

if your fish are showing vibrant colors then they are eating well and getting all the vitamins needed, you wouldnt want to feed them crappy food that doesent provide them with the right nutrition to get the red out because you dont like it.

[ambitionz]

the red makes the albino look like its sick

[kewlkatdady]

again...most albino I've ever seen had the red stripes.

If this isn't what you are talking about, then snap a few pictures and show us what you mean.

[ambitionz]

im not talking about the red stripes in the body im talking about redish color in the end of the fins

ill try to take some pics later and see if yall can see the red i see :)

[sap]

no matter what you do you are stuck with the red

[ambitionz]

why? that wont go off?

[sap]

short of taking him to a tattoo shop and having them do a cover up on the red, I think you are pretty much stuck with it..

[ambitionz]

ok ill take him to the tatt shop :D ill tell them to put a tribal tattoo on his fins roflmao

[kewlkatdady]

Heres a google image search result for albino oscars...
that all have red.
It's the color of the fish.


http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=albino+oscar&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

[sap]

mo devlin had some pics that had very little red in them, but they still had red...if you want a albino cichlid that is white in color try http://tangledupincichlids.com/
but be ready to pay big bucks

[ambitionz]

what about some black that it has ?

[sap]

soak it in bleach, that will remove the colors.........


seriously you are stuck with what you have, you cant remove the colors

[kewlkatdady]

:rolleyes:

[bra8ndy8]

It's like trying to remove a birthmark on a person.....it's there! Now my blood parrots got black spots on them......and they went away within a week, but BP are know to get them due to stress

[ambitionz]

soak it in bleach, that will remove the colors.........


seriously you are stuck with what you have, you cant remove the colors



i tryed soaking him in bleach already it didnt worked


























lol j/k

[laurelty4]

Oscars do poorly being fed 1 type of food. give them some variety.
pellets (I feed Hikari brand arowana sticks, red cichlid pellets, and sinking carnivore pellets), plus night crawlers, crickets, grasshoppers, mealworms, krill, silver sides ect. I even have one who eats a little lettuce when it gets put in the tank.
I have 2 albino's, a regular albino tiger, and a albino snakeskin. I haven't seen the red fins on mine.

How frequent do you change the water? in a 55g with 2 large oscars, I would be doing 30-40 percent weekly water changes. generally red in the fins is a sign on septicimia or fin rot. also high ammonia levels can cause it.

[bra8ndy8]

Way to know your "stuff" Laura!!

[supersmirky]

You also have to be careful with feeding too much protein. They can get hole-in-the-head

[laurelty4]

Hole n Head disease is caused by the Hexamita protozoa,must cichlids carry this. Poor diet and poor water quality bring it on though, If you give a varied diet, and keep up your water changes, you should NEVER have a problem with hole in the head. Oscars are basically a carnivore, so too much protein really isn't a problem, now if we were discussing severum's or tropheus, maybe.
I have treated 2 oscars with severe HNH disease. treated with metronidizole for 4 weeks. then had to use another antibiotic for secondary infection. the fish did not heal until I moved the 90g tank they were in and the fish themselves to my house
(they were previously owned by a paint and body shop) I did 50% water changes daily for several weeks, changed the diet (before they were just getting cichlid pellets) and only then to the pits and scars heal . I can't tell you how bad and sick these fish were. 1 guy you can't even tell he ever had HNH, The other that had it the worst, still shows some scarring, but you would never believe they were the same fish.

[sap]

50% weekly water changes.....the secret to a healthy aquarium.

[supersmirky]

Good info! Thanks Laura!