New WC Silvers

[nolapete]

A couple pics of the 15 new silver arowanas I bought last night from a friend to grow out for my 3600 gallon tank. I'll probably sell around half of them at 18" or so. One is smaller (4" or so) than the others which are all about 6" or so. They are in my 210 (7'x2'x2') right now until the big tank is built.

[killarbb]

feeding time musst slop water everywhere

[xdragonxb0i]

so nice how much u pay for them and where?

[benzjamin13]

Nice!

[nolapete]

I bought them locally from a friend who brought them in from Columbia a couple months ago with another guy. They initially purchased about 90 and split them up. My friend was going to put them in his pond, but his wife changed his plans. He bought a couple larger black arowanas, so decided to part with these to make room. I paid $280 for 15 of them, so under $20 each.

I don't know how much sloshing around feeding time will create yet as I just brought them home last night. He had them eating Hikari pellets and market shrimp.

[Hao]

wow sweet lol

[orinocensis1]

nice

[Koji]

Sweet~ They will grow real fast with many small feeding within the day. Mine grow fast but I only got 10 pieces though. Diet is mainly pellets of all sort and also leftover meat from my other tanks feeding.

[nolapete]

Bought some 150/200 count market shrimp for them tonight. $4.49 per lb. already peeled. The package I bought was .66 lb. for $2.96. Cut shrimp into 1/4" pieces and fed 5 shrimp total and almost all of them have full bellies. I'm going to order some arowana vitamins from AquaticEco.com and soak the shrimp in it. I'll keep feeding them pellets too. I put some pellets in before work today and there was no sign of them when I got home. So, pellets in the morning and cut market shrimp at night should work pretty well. I can't wait for them to get 18" so I can go buy crawfish by the pound and feed them those. That's one good thing about living in New Orleans. Crawfish are cheap.

[wmkr]

nice comm bro... look like amazon

[nolapete]

Thinking about putting my 7 clown loaches, 3 botia modesta,and 4 yoyo loaches in with them. Although, I think about 10 jurupari digging the bottom would be nice as well. Or maybe some carnivore plecos.

[nolapete]

The silvers are doing great. I have one with a split lower fin, but it's healing up. My friend told me they tend to fight when hungry.

They love market shrimp, but not the pellets I have. I have some earthworm sticks on order, so hoping to get them on those in addition to the market shrimp. I doubt they'll eat them, but I may try to trick them into eating the veggie sticks I have for my other fish. I'm going to start culturing red wigglers for them once the weather warms up a bit.

They are starting to recognize me and are becoming less skittish.

[nolapete]

Some pics from today related to their tank:

1/3 of 32 gallon garbage can full of bio-balls out of the filter to be washed
I had to move the door partially to fit the 55 gallon wet/dry in. Fortunately, the stand was made with pocket screws and I was able to unscrew one of the door mounts and move it over. Well, beat it with a hammer over.

All I have left to do is paint the pvc overflow and external plumbing with krylon fusion and cement the last connection.

[gangster]

Killer pack of aro's! Them little buggers oughta be taking off pretty quick. Why dont you just get them same hikari floating sticks your buddy was using. Gut loaded crickets are a favourite among aro's as well. SOme big clown loaches would be a really cool color contrast amongst them. Make sure they are big cause w/ that many aro's they will be eating them if they are hungry.

[zennzzo]

makes my 3 aros look like ghost town

[Juxtaroberto]

Wow, nice!

I'm waiting for the weather to warm up, since that's when all the stores around here get their arowanas.

[nolapete]

Killer pack of aro's! Them little buggers oughta be taking off pretty quick. Why dont you just get them same hikari floating sticks your buddy was using. Gut loaded crickets are a favourite among aro's as well. SOme big clown loaches would be a really cool color contrast amongst them. Make sure they are big cause w/ that many aro's they will be eating them if they are hungry.

He claimed that they were eating the pellets, but I never saw one touch them. I do have some sticks on order. I may pick up some hikari pellet later today and see.

I used to gut load earthworms for my ciclids by putting them in flake food with vita-chem. How do you gut load crickets? What foods to feed them?

I had 7 clown loaches, and some other botias that I wanted to put with them, but when I moved tanks from the fish room to the garage the tank they were in got a bad case of ich. I've just about got it under control, but lost 2 of the clown loaches.

[Gator]

Awesome lol wanna see them go nuts go buy some pinhead crickets and drop them in the tank. Just put on a rain coat first! :D Watching them go into an S shape like a snake then shoot forward to hammer the crickets is the coolest thing to watch.

[nolapete]

They could take much bigger than pinhead crickets already. I'll have to get some of the 1/2" ones for them.

I'm finally finished rough plumbing the pump returns and the pvc overflows from the tank to the sump. I need to pick up some band clamps when I go to Lowe's later. After that, I'll be able to move the xP3 to the 110 and have the 55 wet/dry running the 210.

After a couple weeks of running, I'm going to remove the current substrate and replace it with black sand.

Cool thing about having the 55 wet/dry sump is that the only things in the tank are the pvc overflows and the returns. They're painted black like the side of the tank that is closest to the wall, so barely visible.

[Brian Fish]

That would be awesome to have that many. Thank's for the tip on fighting because my 3 silvers fight a lot. They just ate and seem peaceful.

[nolapete]

Yep, just like us, fat and happy haha.

[nolapete]

Moved one of my smaller bocourti into the 210 with the arowanas. It looks like they've adopted it as a pet.

[kpax632]

ha good luck 210s can just barley fit a fullly grown aro

[nolapete]

ha good luck 210s can just barley fit a fullly grown aro

If you read the first post of the thread instead of making that kind of comment, you'd see they are going in my 3600+ gallon tank when it's finished which will be a very long time before they outgrow the 210.

[BRYANT MONSTER]

Nice wc silvers

[Yanker]

cool...