Jack Jeckel said:
That's not true at all not even close arrowanas need a rotated diet mostly live prey oscars need live prey to gold fish are a great thing to feed oscars as they are high in fat but you also maintain a pellet diet to keep nutrition for them if you buy fish to see them eat other fish it's because they need fish to eat to me it sounds like you posting bad info do a little research before you give people that malnourish there fish and as far as diseases go that's bad feeders you can't help that only that you catch it early now that shark weeks over I'm going to feed my oscars some mollies
Firstly posting via iPhone app has nothing to do with not adding punctuation, many of us use it and are just fine, I call it being plain lazy. Secondly I never post bad info I always have a reason for posting what I do. I can always back it up with past experience and/or reasearch.
Predatory fish can be adapted to accept prepared food it is allot of work but can be done and in the long run its allot healthier for the fish. The fish will not become malnourished do to feeding a high quality staple like NLS, Hakari or OmegOne. These foods are designed to give fish all the nutrition they require.
Example: NLS Thera-A
Ingredients:
Whole Antarctic krill meal, whole herring meal, whole wheat flour, algae meal, garlic, soybean isolate, beta carotene, spirulina, vegetable and fruit extract (spinach, red and green cabbage, pea, broccoli, zucchini, tomato, red bell pepper, kiwi, apricot, pear, mango, apple, papaya, peach), vitamin a acetate, DL alphatocophero (E), d-activated animal sterol (D3), vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydro-chloride, calcium pantothenate, L-ascorby-2-polyphosphate (stable C), choline chloride, copper proteinate, ethylenediamine dihydroiodide, cobalt sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min.) 38.0%, Crude Fat (min.) 7.0%, Crude Fiber (max.) 5.0%, Moisture (max.) 10.0%, Ash (max.) 8%, Vit A (min.) 8000 IU/kg, Vit D (min.) 2500 IU/kg, Vit E (min.) 200 IU/kg.
Looks pretty balanced to me almost like it was designed to be exclusively fed?!
If someone feels that a food like NLS will not provided enough nutrition there are safer options than feeding live fish. For instance beef heart, cooked prawns/shrimp, salmon, clams and scallops.