an update of the jardini

[thebiggerthebetter]

Wow. Thanks to Drboneluan for digging this up.

Jib, you got any more recent pics? How big have you grown it?

Jardini care is rather simple except its bad temper. They will take fish (cut or whole) readily. Mine 4 did anyway. Shrimp is taken too as stated, frozen-thawed or dried. Insects are a particular weakness of jardini and all arowanas. Very expensive foods but insects, the larger the better, appear the best for them.

Sumo arowana foods are the best I know of designed for arowanas.

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yeah, it's kind of confusing or even vexing - I keep seeing platinum, gold, platinum-gold and other adjectives applied to jardini for sale and I am never entirely sure what all those mean...

 

[headbanger_jib]

Jib, you got any more recent pics? How big have you grown it?

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No mate, I grew it to 22" and then I was moving to another city, that was when I sold the fish off.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Must have been before you acquired those great photography skills.

 

[headbanger_jib]

Lol, yeah so true, my pics were horrible

 

[HarleyK]

This is a nicely resurrected thread.
Love seeing old monster pics.
Awesome. We should do flashback sessions more often!

 

[Drboneluan]

This is my arowana. But body don't have red spot. I am thinking about when my jar grows up, the red spot appear ?. Thanks

 

[headbanger_jib]

This is my arowana. But body don't have red spot. I am thinking about when my jar grows up, the red spot appear ?. Thanks

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It's nice thick guy, your tank is very brightly lit, my tank never had any lights, at least while the jar was there, it always used to splash water and spoil them

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

He might have lit it up for a photoshoot, IDK...

It's a nice-looking jardini, normal color.

The red one can see only in a close-up and with good lighting, maybe even special lighting, like black light or purple light, etc. I don't think they get much red normally (or at all?) but maybe I am mistaken. Only thin edges of scales get some iridescent red I think and even that red is rather pale, more pinkish or orangish, either due to the smallness of the area or lack of saturation in color or both.

What size is the guy now?

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

You can only see the red in the Headbanger's close-ups, and almost none in full body shots in the OP.

One thing that can be done perhaps is increasing the amount of red pigment in your fish's diet. Crustaceans with a shell on have that like shrimp and crab. Good quality pellets have that.

They say paprika as a supplement can be given to one's fish to increase the red.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Three more jardini for yah to check out

16"-17" http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...-fat-pearls-everywhere-200-nyc-pickup.674561/

21" http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...ana-600-englishtown-new-jersey-pickup.673501/

24" http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...lid-300-mission-viejo-ca-92692-pickup.674417/