Hi, everyone. Im super noob here.

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What are you feeding it?

Ideally a pH below 7 would be ideal to raise your aro in, but unless you have a good understanding of water chemistry your better off just providing a stable higher pH. The pH down and W/Cs could lead to fluctuating levels which can be harmful or deadly.
 
Bderick67 said:
What are you feeding it?

Ideally a pH below 7 would be ideal to raise your aro in, but unless you have a good understanding of water chemistry your better off just providing a stable higher pH. The pH down and W/Cs could lead to fluctuating levels which can be harmful or deadly.
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I see. I see.
I feed it frozen bloodworms, and pellets. I want to try market shrimp.
Do you have any good recomand?
 
High quality pellets should form the staple of its diet with other food items being offered occasionally to vary its diet. At that size, your current diet for it is adequate, and you could probably start trying new foods every once in a while.

Also, on the topic of pH, driftwood and leaves (almond, oak, and other similar leaves) are a natural way to lower the pH of the water and keep it at a stable level.
 
I have found the best results with freeze dried bloodworms. Not only are they nutritious and soft but they float. Which makes it easy for the young arowana to eat and the uneaten is easily removed. Once it is eating the bloodworms start mixing in broken pellets. Eventually you will have him eating the pellets and then can expand the diet to most any foods.
 
I would place a bet saying your overfeeding. This happens most of the time with a new fish. Your very excited to get the fish and you want it happy. Most people are happy when they are eating so you feed the fish. The fish of course is stressed like every new fish is. The fish is not eating. Now the food is rotting and the fish is more stressed and you keep feeding. The cycle ends when the fish dies.

Don't worry about PH the most important test is ammonia. I'm sure this will be disputed but if you have high ammonia you probably have high..... everything else that's bad. So keep up with the water changes, keep the lights off and just let the fish chill for a couple days then try feeding again.

This hobby is fun and you came to the best place for advice. We all want your worst case sineario to be your fish out grows your tank and you need to get a monster fish tank!!!!! :headbang2
 
First thing i'd do is do a partial water change. 3 aro's in one tank at one time= more w/c's. Esp if one was dead in there, this means theres ammonia in the water.
Then, i'd turn out/ lower the lights for a day or so.

If it still doesnt eat after a days, i'd try live brine shrimp. I hate to use live baby crickets, but that is the other option to induce a baby arowana to eat. The last resort would be to use live feeder guppies. But my take is, just lower the lighting. The silver aro is prob shy now bc it just lost 2 tank mates. And if you havent been keeping up with water changes, I'd do that asap.
 
Guys, my silver is eating.. Im trying to feed him Hikari food stick, but he dosent like it. He just sucked it in and spat it out. Now he only eats frozen bloodworms... Havent tried any other food yet. So how do i train him to eat the food stick? I tired to feed him only food stick for three days.. this is the first time i gave him frozen blood worm...
 
Your Aro has gone through a lot during the last few weeks. If he is eating frozen blood worms now, just stick with it and keep everything stable. You have enough time to tryout new food later. Take things slowly.
 
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