How can i make my oscar fish grow faster?
Right now hes in a 40 gallon tank and would like to know how to increase his size. I heard feed more than minimul will help. High protien food/ staple food. Blood worms. Is it true that an oscar grows 1 inch every month or what. Gave anyone give me tips to speed up growth in an oscar. Speed up is faster than 1 inch per month more inches. I am doing this because its my own personal needs. Gift to a friend. Please dont critiseze. I got double filters and good water conditions. Bio-wheel …fluval 2 plus and heater stealth. yea yea yea.. Btw are they brakish b/c i have driftwood and like to know if that will affect him? Btw why do i see pet shops with arowanas with oscars and catfish in brakish? What is the real deal?
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Earth worms are the best food to make them grow. Get them at your local bait shop and put them in damp corn meal to clean them out. They are not brackish water. They do not need salt in the water. They are Central American and as such prefer hard water. I would never shop in a pet shop with Oscars in brackish water.
Water quality and food is what he needs. Bloodworms are OK at the start, but as he grows they will just be a snack. When they are small you can feed them often, 3 or more time a day, but only what they will actually eat. Watch them closely, they will still try and eat when they are full, but they will have to spit it out again, or it overflows through their gills. Gets messy quick if you overfeed.
Good cichlid pellets as a base diet, then krill, shrimp, bit of raw fish, earthworms, crickets and even a bit of beefheart will get them growing.
Yes you will need the double filtering and LOTS of water changes. All that food is going to increase the nitrate level in the tank, and while it may not kill them it lowers their appetite and general health.
Yes they should grow an inch per month when they are young, and slow down when they mature at 8″ or so.
Dirftwood is fine, it may stain the water brown, but it wont harm the Oscar.
They are NOT brackish species, pet shops my temporarily house them with brackish species, but it’s the brackish fish they are keeping in fresh water, not the other way around.
You know you will need a bigger tank in about 6 months right?
Ian
It doesn’t really matter if you have them in it or not. Feed him other fish. I fed mine Rosy Reds and he accidentally ate a couple other fish, but by feeding him real fish, it will increase his size fast.
I got mine when he was 2-3 inches. In two weeks he was 4-5 inches, just from feeding him feeder fish.
Hope this helps! Good luck.
All fish grow the fastest in fresh water. Commercial breeders have setups that continually and automatically put fresh water into the growout tanks. In effect, they are changing 100% of the water over the course of 24 hours, every day. They do this so they can sell the fish sooner and make more money. The faster they grow, the quicker they can be sold. A friend of mine is a discus breeder and his growout tanks in his home are on an automatic system that changes 100% of the water every day.
So, high protein food and many, many water changes. I would suggest at least 50% water changes, twice a week. The 40g tank should be big enough for him to grow to about 10-12″ if you feed him plenty of high protein food and do the water changes, religiously.
It is true that oscars will grow an inch a month, but they do not stop or slow down at 8″. The one inch a month continues until they are about 12″ and then it takes, probably another year for them to get to adult size at 15″.
Now a word about live feeders. I feel very strongly that no one should feed live feeder fish (goldfish, rosy reds or guppys) to other fish unless you breed and raise them yourself. The feeders you buy in the fish store are raised in outdoor ponds by the 10′s of thousands. Many kinds of parasites, internal and external, can come into the home aquarium with them from these outdoor ponds. Diseases are sometimes carried too because of the thousands of fish crowded together and stressing each other to the max. Stress compromises immune systems leading to opportunistic diseases gaining a foothold easily in the group of fish as a whole. Another negative with feeder fish is that there is not really a lot of nutrition in them.
I kept 5 oscars in a 125g tank for years (before selling them as a group) feeding them feeder goldfish (until I learned of the dangers), cichlid pellets and then, ultimately, high protein dry dogfood pellets when they got to be adults. Believe it or not, they loved the dog food pellets and would meet me at the front of the tank, all 5 trying to be the first to get fed.
The best thing about oscars is that they are very intelligent and will start recognizing you, in particular, when you come to feed them. Other people are met with interested stares, but you will actually be greeted.
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feed them feeder goldfish.And you need to upgrade your tank znd good filter they will creat great amount of waste.
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