African Arowana Care

[circumbus]

awesome afro and bichir dude! palmas pollis are really hard to come by im sure. i use the same substrate you are using man!

 

[Cheesetian]

awesome afro and bichir dude! palmas pollis are really hard to come by im sure. i use the same substrate you are using man!

I doubt so! Mine is sand from the beach.

 

[iman87]

Hi guys! Got my afro from c328 shipment as well on 9th April 2011. Eating really really heavily. Could go as much as 9-12 cubes per day!
Indeed afros grow really fast. Mines at 4.5 inch and closing to 5 inches.

Find that mine is quite particular about the brands of frozen bloodworms.
He prefers the hikari brand as compared to the other pink color labelled FBW.
Tried mixing them, he'd skip the latter one. Maybe because it was slightly bigger i supposed.

Cheesetian how big is your afro now? Any changes in color? really looking forward to see this fella grow and let him join the gars and bichirs.

 

[circumbus]

oh cool, so they do get them pretty often ey? i got mine on the 19th of april at c328 too. he eats really actively but im not sure if they go down his throat or they slide out his gills. i started cutting my FBWs up and that seems to be helping. will be doing a water change later tonight.

 

[circumbus]

I doubt so! Mine is sand from the beach.

im sure the one i got was from the beach too, hahahah but they packed it and were selling them. im not sure tho, maybe its made specifically for the FW aquariums.

 

[Cheesetian]

Hi guys! Got my afro from c328 shipment as well on 9th April 2011. Eating really really heavily. Could go as much as 9-12 cubes per day!
Indeed afros grow really fast. Mines at 4.5 inch and closing to 5 inches.

Find that mine is quite particular about the brands of frozen bloodworms.
He prefers the hikari brand as compared to the other pink color labelled FBW.
Tried mixing them, he'd skip the latter one. Maybe because it was slightly bigger i supposed.

Cheesetian how big is your afro now? Any changes in color? really looking forward to see this fella grow and let him join the gars and bichirs.

Mine's pushing 6" now. It wasn't really fussy about the worms but i did change the brand cos' the initial ones i bought, the worms were very big so i managed to find(by chance) another one with smaller and thinner worms which makes for easier consumption. It hasn't changed in color actually. Still the same beautiful grey although sometimes i do see a bit of blue in its fins.

oh cool, so they do get them pretty often ey? i got mine on the 19th of april at c328 too. he eats really actively but im not sure if they go down his throat or they slide out his gills. i started cutting my FBWs up and that seems to be helping. will be doing a water change later tonight.

This is the Afro season or so i've been told.

im sure the one i got was from the beach too, hahahah but they packed it and were selling them. im not sure tho, maybe its made specifically for the FW aquariums.

Ah, alright cool.

 

[circumbus]

hey guys i just realised that my afro does something really peculiar, he splashes water from the surface using his tail. that caused some damage to his tail too, but im not worried about that. just curious to know if your afros do that too?

 

[Oddball]

Here's my post on afaro care. Hope it helps:

The only real success seems to be in providing a constant source of food until the aros reach about 8" and develop some fat storage to allow them to receive scheduled feedings like most other fish.
I raised the young in bare tanks with sponge filters. The sponge filters allow the fish to "graze" on previously missed food until the next feeding. Be sure to rinse of the sponges every other day to keep spoiled food off of them. Keep the water on the alkaline side and at 80 degrees. Also keep a good lid on their tank. They're jumpers from the get-go. They also need a cover to provide matching air and water temps while the young's air-breathing architecture is developing.
Feed them on a variety of small foods. Frozen bloodworms, daphnia, brine shrimp, crumble food, sinking food, cyclop-eeze, flakes, and micro-pellets are all taken. Feed high protein foods since they have high metabolic rates (no cheap generic foods). Water changes of 30-50% need to be done every 2-3 days.
Af aros need to be housed either as 1 to a tank or 4 and up to a tank. With 2 or 3 you'll wind up with only one in a short time as their aggression towards each other is high.
Note: my best success was in following the above and allowing my rearing tanks to go green with algae. These are a filter-feeding species, after all, and I think they benefitted from some algae consumption in their diets.

Good luck!!

 

[circumbus]

Thanks for the help oddball!

 

[lisham]

Concerning mixing small afros with bichir, my bichir arrived at 4 inches and had grown a lot and fast, the reason behind this, it ate 4 of my 3" elephantnose.