Will Feeding My Oscar Live Food Cause Him To Be More Aggressive Towards Tankmates?

My Oscar is three years old and has never had a live feed. As I'm always trying to keep my fish entertained, I'm wondering if it is worth feeding the Oscar live food to spice things up abit?
I have a community tank with my smallest fish being sucker fish, and Oscar has never shown aggression towards anyone.

 

Get him on hikarI anything!

 

I'll look into it. Any recommendations on live feeding?

 

don't feed goldfish and other live fish. It isn't in their natural diet in the wild and they carry disease and honestly just not that nutritionally valuable at all. Maybe try some super worms/meal worms(although they do dirty up a tank very quick) or any insects you can find. bugs are a big part of there natural diet. mostly anything you give an Oscar will be gone in like a millisecond. So in terms of entertaining him, it's not gonna do a lot. Health wise it can't hurt.

 

Lol can we feed oscars cockroaches

 

Thanks for the reply Mike. You confirmed my suspicions with the live fish.
If I see any moths etc around the house I'll let the Oscar do the trick haha.
I was told recently that ping-pong balls can entertain Oscars. Have you heard anything about this?

I'll let you try that one first bill

 

You must see what oscar did today with pleco

 

Thanks for the reply Mike. You confirmed my suspicions with the live fish.
If I see any moths etc around the house I'll let the Oscar do the trick haha.
I was told recently that ping-pong balls can entertain Oscars. Have you heard anything about this?

I'll let you try that one first bill

Yes but I actually just took a bioball and have it floating in the tank. Its so funny watching my Oscars chase it

 

You must see what oscar did today with plecoView attachment 343199View attachment 343200

Wow! I just had a similar experience. My Oscars bit my eartheaters head off literally. I don't know why Oscars just go bananas

 

100% absolutely 10fold. I fed my Oscar pellets for about a year and then I moved to some crickets and small minnows. And now he's killed his entire tank. 2 jack Dempsey while spawning and they were bigger. 2 plecos. 1 green terror. A half a dozen mixed Africans and multiple convicts. And 1 very expensive led light bar. everything Except for a 8inch Raphael cat. Which he tried to eat but couldn't get him past the spikes. So he spit him out. My Oscar is only maby 6 or 7inch but everyone was fine till I started the live food and blood worm squares he eats whole.