Jardini arowana feeding difficulties

[Jishu tj]

Hi this is Jishu tj , I have a 6" jard. when it was about 4" in size it mostly consume only live feeder fish then few weeks later I froced him to adapt the krills now it devour only boiled chicken pieces and won't take any other foods such as krills, shrimp or even feeder fish. Don't know what will i do next but feelin its just dont want any other food except boiled chicken pieces. also tried to give him azoo sticks and arowana gourmet but still it shows no response to any of those specially prepared arowana food. Its really confused me so I want some suggestion from you guys. If it's good to be stick with boiled chicken pcs or sud i go for other and how can I do that ?

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

Don't feed it anything for a week then throw a market shrimp in, i'm pretty sure it will take it if not starve it for another few days. Your aro won't die without food for weeks so don't worry about that.

 

[Evz jardini]

Chicken won't do your jar any good , here's a link to my jardini pellet training thread you'll find a few tips off everyone there
Hope he eats pellets soon , don't worry to much about starving him onto them he won't starve himself to death survival instinct will kick in and it'll eat
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/getting-my-little-jardini-onto-pellets.570422/

 

[jwh]

I haven't read Evz' tread, but in my experience aro's always (even if it takes a while) seem to come round on live crickets and Hikari food sticks, you must get it off the chicken though. Mine would start by grabbing it, spitting it out, then eat one stick, have another and so on...
It will become stressful, but as said above its not going to starve itself to death in the presence of food

 

[Jishu tj]

I haven't read Evz' tread, but in my experience aro's always (even if it takes a while) seem to come round on live crickets and Hikari food sticks, you must get it off the chicken though. Mine would start by grabbing it, spitting it out, then eat one stick, have another and so on...
It will become stressful, but as said above its not going to starve itself to death in the presence of food

Chicken won't do your jar any good , here's a link to my jardini pellet training thread you'll find a few tips off everyone there
Hope he eats pellets soon , don't worry to much about starving him onto them he won't starve himself to death survival instinct will kick in and it'll eat
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/getting-my-little-jardini-onto-pellets.570422/

my jardini is now 1' in size and he is happy with the pallets but now there are a new problem arise dont know what should i do. she isn't eating anything for 2 long days please give me a suggestion

 

[predatorkeeper87]

my jardini is now 1' in size and he is happy with the pallets but now there are a new problem arise dont know what should i do. she isn't eating anything for 2 long days please give me a suggestion

check your water parameters. Any time my fish fast for more than a day its usually do to unseen water issues.

 

[Jishu tj]

check your water parameters. Any time my fish fast for more than a day its usually do to unseen water issues.

I change my water regular basis and 30% every day so there should be no nitrate or nitrite issue.

 

[Evz jardini]

Keep a close eye on your jar if your waters in check and its acting unusual , try feeding a variety of foods over a period of a couple of weeks see if the change gets it eating again , any tankmates in with him ?

 

[Jishu tj]

Keep a close eye on your jar if your waters in check and its acting unusual , try feeding a variety of foods over a period of a couple of weeks see if the change gets it eating again , any tankmates in with him ?

Nope my jar is not acting unusual its just swimming normally as it always do. There is no tank mate for my jar. But at evening recently she try to eat only insects which get inside of her tank. I give him 4 spider today she eat all but not eating food sticks , shrimps don't understand the reason behind this never face this kinda situation before.

 

[jwh]

They sometimes go off their food, mine stopped eating fish (frozen) for about a month, but continued to eat crickets and jumbo carnisticks. It started eating fish again this last week. Be sure the spiders aren't poisonous, crickets are very good for aro, and I've yet to meet one that doesn't eat them.