River rocks for substrate and dropeye question

[fisher12889]

Heres where the pics are http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29131 I dont think fish food spoils, I dont know whats in it that could go bad, but it might lol

 

[Steve_89]

You wont get drop eye with a jardini.

 

[DeLgAdO]

About the dropeye, it is thought to be a genetic thing so putting the tank on the floor probably wont help, but I guess you could try it. Just make sure not to kick it or anything else! lol

dam i also heard that feedeing ur arowana goldfish will give them drop eye. i know that a fatty diet and genetics can cause dropeye, but i also want to see if all this other stuff ive been hearing is true. thank you

none of it is true

let me make this clear:

THE CAUSE OF DROP EYE IS UNKNOWN

both of those ideas are flawed

arowanas on a healthy low fat well balanced diet get drop eye regardless (including mine).

and genetics has little effect on drop eye, both wild and captive breed arowana are both suseptable to drop eye.

and most silver aros come from the wild

 

[DeLgAdO]

great, i have alot of hikari gold pellets from the time i had a red devil. its very very old though, does fish food ever spoil?

yes

nutrients are lost in the food through oxidation.

simple things can destroy them:including light, heat, moisture (humidity), and the oxygen in the air itself, among other things fish food does go "bad", nutritionally speaking.

 

[dodgefreak8]

none of it is true

let me make this clear:

THE CAUSE OF DROP EYE IS UNKNOWN

both of those ideas are flawed

arowanas on a healthy low fat well balanced diet get drop eye regardless (including mine).

and genetics has little effect on drop eye, both wild and captive breed arowana are both suseptable to drop eye.

and most silver aros come from the wild

hey Del,
are you sure that most silvers are wild caught? Most of the research i have done showed that most silvers are farm bred but I could be wrong.

 

[fisher12889]

I always heard that they would catch a male holding babies and kill it and drop the babies into a bucket, is that true?

 

[DeLgAdO]

hey Del,
are you sure that most silvers are wild caught? Most of the research i have done showed that most silvers are farm bred but I could be wrong.

yes

most are exported from south america.

they arent endangered or banned from export, so theres big buck to be made man, so they are being exported by the hundreds of thousands

heres my back-up

Actually all silver arowanas here in the states are "wild caught"...... even the one coming from asia...... which are sent there at a very small size to be "grown out"...... Captive breeding has been producing minimal numbers in the past few years but still not enough to compete with the "wild" ones coming out of SA.......

 

[DeLgAdO]

I always heard that they would catch a male holding babies and kill it and drop the babies into a bucket, is that true?

unfortunetly yes.

 

[dodgefreak8]

great info Del thanks.. thats really good to know and it definatly blows my genetics theory all to hell..

 

[fisher12889]

unfortunetly yes.

Its sad, but if they didnt do that then most of us probably wouldnt have our aros!