Great to meet another critter woman.
And yeah, I just tried getting my oscar to eat shrimp---he spit it out, but scarfed down the pellets.
Silly fish.
My daughter won a "goldfish" at a fair. I tried to give it to two kids on the way out. She started to wail. I once had 150 gal, 40 gal, 20 gal, 10 gal and a 5 gal feeder tank. Consider myself "cured" of aquariums.
We brought it home, and I put it in a glass figuring it'll be dead tomorrow. It wasn't. A week. No luck. Daughter whining... get my fish a bowl. We did. Figured it would certainly die now. Nope. We named it "Flush". Finally bought some food after another week or so. She got a 5 gallon aquarium as a gift with Pebbles and Bambam on the bottom. I figured NOW it'll die. No luck. So, we bought some more goldfish for "company" for Flush. They died. Took some water down to the fish store for analysis and bought proper chemicals. Went home and dumped the water. Filled it back up. Added chemicals. Out from under the rock comes Flush. hmmmm.... Bought neons. They died. Water out. Water in. Chemicals. Flush appears. Started getting suspicious. This time I bought a siamese fighting fish and a newt. They died. Big hunks out of the newt. Siamese fighting fish's fins in shreds. Took a good look at Flush the Goldfish. Went online. Ever hear of a Demon Fish? Earth Eater?
We fed him worms and the yearly Christmas goldfish.... Flush lived to a ripe old 5 years old all alone in the aquarium. I figured if I ever got mad at anyone and killed them, I had only to stuff the body into the aquarium.... Flush would take care of the rest. Guess what happened to Flush the Fish.