hand feeding arowana

[aznxcalikid]

i got my jardini to eat from my hand by having him watch all my cichlids do it. first day i tried and it worked.
i think this is the easiest way to teach them to do that if anyone even wants them to.

[playa7]

right on...what do you feed him with?

[aznxcalikid]

i did it with bloodworm cubes but ithink it will work for anything as long as it sees other fish eating from your hands.

[playa7]

cool...my Jar lives by itself..so i was pretty hard for me to teach him...but, i finally got him to eat out of my hand with market shrimp.

[akskirmish]

Nice-
Both mine do this also-It's neat,But watch your fingers....

[scubasteve06]

My cichlids I got almost a week ago will come swim around my hand whenever I put it in there, but they wont eat from my hand yet.

[aznxcalikid]

i got my jardini to take flakes today also. at first he spit it out but now he takes it. i fed him blood worms on a regular basis so i didnt starve him to take it. im using Omega One Super Color flakes.

[twk1]

Congrats that you got it to eat from your hand!! How big is your jar??

[aznxcalikid]

bout 3.5 inches.

[playa7]

bout 3.5 inches.

:eek: 3" incredible! ....my Jar didnt trust me till he was 8"+ ,lol

[midnight]

ya its cute at that size but when its full grown you will be re thinking this whole hand feeding idea.
:grinno:
na,i remember when i did it for the first time,i was happy too.
now i still do it at 2 feet but im a bit more worried now. :grinno:

[Liam]

Maybe you could tame him, so he doesn't take food out your hand savagely.

[aznxcalikid]

yeah right now he charges at my hand and bites the food and darts away. i doubt it can learn to eat from my hand like cichlids. mayvbe.

[Wolf3101]

Pinky is about 22" at the moment and will take food from my hand...along with fingers if I'm not paying attention. The other problem with hand feeding them is that during tank maintaince they tend to assume that it's snacktime and that can be quite a wake up call with a fish thats basicly a 22" muscle with teeth....LOL

[Mr Pleco]

Nice-
Both mine do this also-It's neat,But watch your fingers....


:iagree:

Theres a couple of times I stumbled backwards startled as my Aro's broke out of the water to snatch a piece of shrimp from my fingers....hand feeding fish brings the connection to another level, another positive with fish keeping...:headbang2

[ettfettbranamn]

:iagree:

Theres a couple of times I stumbled backwards startled as my Aro's broke out of the water to snatch a piece of shrimp from my fingers....hand feeding fish brings the connection to another level, another positive with fish keeping...:headbang2

Not only the connection..

I found it helps alot when getting fish to accept food they are not used to as they assume things coming from hands are edable.. found it helpful with my dat atleast..

[aznxcalikid]

Not only the connection..

I found it helps alot when getting fish to accept food they are not used to as they assume things coming from hands are edable.. found it helpful with my dat atleast..

and:iagree:

[Justin94565]

Yea my 3" silver aro doesnt even trust me yet.

[Justin94565]

So can they take your fingers off or what? When they get monster.

[likestofish]

gorw some and stop being nancy boys!

[808bait]

That's cool!! I should train my jar. Wonder if old an old jar could learn new tricks? heh

[Justin94565]

They should be able to learn new tricks 808 :)