African arowana feeding help

Is the bloodworms frozen? If frozen best to stop feeding bloodworms and other frozen foods. Frozen foods contain thiamese which lowers thiamine or vitamin B1 which ur aro need to grow. Massivores are a bit biggers but try to feed it hikari jumbo sticks or aro sticks. Carnivore delite are much smaller than massivore and it's more prefered to swallow. I feed mine carnivore pellets, aro sticks, jumbo carni sticks and cichlid gold sinking. It can swallow those pellets easier than massivore. I tried massivore before but it get tired from grinding it till it only spits it out. Also place ur temp at 80-82F to increase metabolism.

mikehagan said:

I'll pick up a bag of aro sticks and see how he likes them. The only thing I know he eats is bloodworms, everything else just gets spit out. He won't eat brine shrimp.
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That's one of the problem keeping african aro that grow up eatinh bloodworms. They get addicted to eating bloodworm. Bloodworm are only good with juvenile fish. If you want the same nutritional content for adults you gonna end up feeding more bloodworm. A lot of people keep mistakenly that bloodworm will make their fish grow fast, but that's only with smaller fish as they have smaller body. It will not have the same results for adults though as bigger body mean feeding more bloodworms. My african arowana was actually introduced to pellets when it was at 6" as well as other frozen foods. But had to chopped the frozen food to small pieces to help it swallow. I stop feeding my fish frozen foods now though, just occasional. They get thicker with pellets. You'll notice when u look at it from top view and see the tail area down to caudal pentacle. It will become thicker and the body become wider with a bit of arch back rather than the streamline cylinder shape.

I keep both species together but I have more fish in the tank. My african would usually chase the afer.