Feeding oscar bugs

[Beano]

Hi,

I like to leave a bit of the lid on my oscars tank open so some bugs
can fall in during the night when the light is on. I also feed him any
bugs that I find around the house.

Are there any particular bugs that might be poisonous to an oscar?

[NetMax]

"Beano" > wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I like to leave a bit of the lid on my oscars tank open so some bugs
> can fall in during the night when the light is on. I also feed him any
> bugs that I find around the house.
>
> Are there any particular bugs that might be poisonous to an oscar?


Anything which carries toxins or poisons. Bees, wasps, some spiders etc.

Mine weren't keen on moths, maybe too fuzzy? ;~)
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Personally I would not feed anything other than properly prepared foods, you
never know what household bugs contain. If you think of the disgusting
habits prevalent in most of these things, you would not want them added to
your tank let alone actually fed to your fish!

Mark

[Elaine T]

wrote:
> Personally I would not feed anything other than properly prepared foods, you
> never know what household bugs contain. If you think of the disgusting
> habits prevalent in most of these things, you would not want them added to
> your tank let alone actually fed to your fish!
>
> Mark

And what do you think Oscars eat in the wild? Sterilized bugs?

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[Beano]

*LOL*

I also have to say that, given what they put in dog and cat food, do
you honestly think that pet food makers care what's in fish food?

[John Hudson]

Well, I'm sure they halt production and trash the entire lot if a "bug"
happens to fly into the mix..........................

Seriously, I've fed Oscars anything from June bugs to 2 inch grasshoppers
with nothing more serious than a few LARGE Oscar turds.........


"Beano" > wrote in message
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> *LOL*
>
> I also have to say that, given what they put in dog and cat food, do
> you honestly think that pet food makers care what's in fish food?
>

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You have a very good point!

However, horrible crud filled things in twenty-eleven thousand gallons of
lake are less of a problem than a similarly odeous thing in a 50 gall tank!
If it's eaten and converted to fish-poo it may not be a problem but if Mr
Ocsar misses a few, what then! :)

Mark

[Elaine T]

wrote:
> You have a very good point!
>
> However, horrible crud filled things in twenty-eleven thousand gallons of
> lake are less of a problem than a similarly odeous thing in a 50 gall tank!
> If it's eaten and converted to fish-poo it may not be a problem but if Mr
> Ocsar misses a few, what then! :)
>
> Mark

Boy, you don't like bugs do you? *grin* You're right that uneaten food
in a 50 gal tank is a problem. Seems like it would take a pretty
seriously infested house for that to happen, though. After all, when
does a cichlid EVER miss a piece of live food that lands in its tank? :-)

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[Terri]

My oscars were pretty fond of grasshoppers-since they are nearly back
in season I'm guessing they'll enjoy them again. They sometimes eject
the kicker legs tho.

[Craig]

actually fish food is almost 50% ash... go figure.

oscars will eat anything.

avoid bees and wasps just because of the string.

but yeah, anything small and harmless is fair game.

mine would never eat spiders, the first night i had him he was sulking
in the corner, i caught this huge spiders and threw it in (im in the uk,
a huge spier is about an inche long lol)

it splashed around for a while then sank... and began to walk towards
the oscar, i laughed as the fish belted away from it and gave the rather
soggy arachnid its freedom.

from that day on the fish wouldnt touch spiders. go figure



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[Roger Sleet]

In article >,
-DONTEMAIL (Craig) wrote:

> *From:* Craig -DONTEMAIL>
> *Date:* 23 May 2005 11:07:38 GMT
>
> actually fish food is almost 50% ash... go figure.

What? Fish food doesn't contain ash - where does it say that on the
ingredients. It doesn't - it says it on the Analysis.

Where the analysis says x% Ash (and the Aquarian I have here says 13%
rather than 50%) it means that if you heat 100gm of the food at a high
temperature so it combusts you will be left with 13gm of ash. So you can
get 13% ash out, they don't put 13% ash in.

The ash measure is am indication of the levels of minerals in the food.

Roger Sleet
Roger's Aquatic Pages http://www.sleet.plus.com

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You're right, never been known here! It just gives me the shivers seeing the
lifestyle these critters enjoy when they're playing in the garden to think
of that stuff finding its way into my tank! As you mention it, I'm probably
a bit paranoid :)

Mark

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[Craig]

ah, blow me down. shows what ya get if you get a degree in computing eh?

mine only contains 5.5% lol.:p



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[JK@work]

"Beano" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I like to leave a bit of the lid on my oscars tank open so some bugs
> can fall in during the night when the light is on. I also feed him any
> bugs that I find around the house.
>
> Are there any particular bugs that might be poisonous to an oscar?
>

So much bug pesticide around these days, I would think this is not a good
thing to do? I feed my big Severums garden worms every once in awhile. Free,
easy to find, and very filling! LOL

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[Rosyposey]

Does anyone know why the rest of this thread has been taken off the server.
It seems harmless enough (quite interesting in fact)
Rosie
"JK@work" > wrote in message
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>
> "Beano" > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I like to leave a bit of the lid on my oscars tank open so some bugs
>> can fall in during the night when the light is on. I also feed him any
>> bugs that I find around the house.
>>
>> Are there any particular bugs that might be poisonous to an oscar?
>>
>
> So much bug pesticide around these days, I would think this is not a good
> thing to do? I feed my big Severums garden worms every once in awhile.
> Free,
> easy to find, and very filling! LOL
>
> --
> JK Sinrod
> Sinrod Stained Glass Studios
> http://www.sinrodstudios.com/
> Coney Island Memories
> www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories/
>
>

[Gill Passman]

"Rosyposey" > wrote in message
...
> Does anyone know why the rest of this thread has been taken off the
server.
> It seems harmless enough (quite interesting in fact)
> Rosie
> "JK@work" > wrote in message
> news:FS0me.13402$Ib.8699@trndny03...
> >
> > "Beano" > wrote in message
> > oups.com...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I like to leave a bit of the lid on my oscars tank open so some bugs
> >> can fall in during the night when the light is on. I also feed him any
> >> bugs that I find around the house.
> >>
> >> Are there any particular bugs that might be poisonous to an oscar?
> >>
> >
> > So much bug pesticide around these days, I would think this is not a
good
> > thing to do? I feed my big Severums garden worms every once in awhile.
> > Free,
> > easy to find, and very filling! LOL
> >
> > --
> > JK Sinrod
> > Sinrod Stained Glass Studios
> > http://www.sinrodstudios.com/
> > Coney Island Memories
> > www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories/
> >
> >
>
>

My newserver removes stuff quite frequently which is a pain.....If I need to
back reference I use google....

Gill

[bassett]

Why would a news server move,take, moderate, posts on a news group.
perhaps you should check your "delete" settings.
click on "message" in the top header, then rule for message, and clear
everything except "where the form line contains people"
bassett

"Gill Passman" <gillspamattaylorpassmanspam.co.uk> wrote in message
.. .
>
> "Rosyposey" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Does anyone know why the rest of this thread has been taken off the
> server.
>> It seems harmless enough (quite interesting in fact)
>> Rosie
>> "JK@work" > wrote in message
>> news:FS0me.13402$Ib.8699@trndny03...
>> >
>> > "Beano" > wrote in message
>> > oups.com...
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I like to leave a bit of the lid on my oscars tank open so some bugs
>> >> can fall in during the night when the light is on. I also feed him
>> >> any
>> >> bugs that I find around the house.
>> >>
>> >> Are there any particular bugs that might be poisonous to an oscar?
>> >>
>> >
>> > So much bug pesticide around these days, I would think this is not a
> good
>> > thing to do? I feed my big Severums garden worms every once in awhile.
>> > Free,
>> > easy to find, and very filling! LOL
>> >
>> > --
>> > JK Sinrod
>> > Sinrod Stained Glass Studios
>> > http://www.sinrodstudios.com/
>> > Coney Island Memories
>> > www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories/
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
> My newserver removes stuff quite frequently which is a pain.....If I need
> to
> back reference I use google....
>
> Gill
>
>

[MrHappy]

Rosie
It wasn't
Check your news reader settings to see if it is only showing the
last X days
The oldest message I have on the server is 753 days old

BT skimp on retention on their servers if that is where you are
looking

try looking for free news servers with a google seacrch

www.usenetserver.com does a good one

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[Fuzzy]

MIght be a glitch on your end, I can still view the whole thread. Mind
you I log into it through cichlidfish, and not via the newsgroups.



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[Rosyposey]

Thank you all of you for you replies. I don't really know why it did this,
the thread has now completely vanished, yet at the same time I can still
access posts from 20th April (Pike disappeared etc). Maybe I will try
accessing from google or cichlidfish.com.
Regards, Rosie
"Fuzzy" -DONTEMAIL> wrote in message
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> MIght be a glitch on your end, I can still view the whole thread. Mind
> you I log into it through cichlidfish, and not via the newsgroups.
>
>
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[silvrsteln]

I would not feed anything other than proper food preparation, you never know what family the error contains. If you feel sick in most popular practice these things, you do not want them to In fact, not to mention your tank to feed your fish!