Any success with feeding arowanas sinking pellets ?

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My Silver will dang near eat anything anywhere. I many times have to shoo him away to ensure the other bottom dwellers get their share.
 
i had a silver who used to eat anything pellets,sticks,market prawns frozen fish,meat,frozen brine shrimp and the best part is i dint train him.i just dropped it in and it ate

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I have a silver that eats anything, arowana sticks, koi pellets, sinking cichlid gold, market shrimp, and massivore.
 
I, for one, have to disagree. My silver had drop eye from about the 12" mark and did not start eating or even having sinking pellets introduced till the 22" mark.
 
no, no drop eye is caused by looking down. it is the only one that makes any remote sence. i mean aros never look down in the wild. also i read that hikari causes drop eye and we should
not feed it to our fish. infact most fish wont eat pellets at all, we have to starve them so they think it is good to eat.


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sbuse said:
no, no drop eye is caused by looking down. it is the only one that makes any remote sence. i mean aros never look down in the wild. also i read that hikari causes drop eye and we should
not feed it to our fish. infact most fish wont eat pellets at all, we have to starve them so they think it is good to eat.


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Again, I have to disagree. Did you not read my post or your own? If all I've fed were floating pellets and the DE happened anyway, what was causing the DE? The fish has never had to look down? Hikari? Is there any proof to back your theory? My RTG eats the same arowana sticks and has no drop eye and is the same size as when the silver started to show. How is it that any other food fed to arowana's besides crickets not cause the arowana to look down?
Market prawns - sink
Super worms - sink
Feeder fish - swim below top level
Even in the wild, smaller fish are part of the arowana's diet causing them to look down. I believe it's because they are in a glass tank and not the wild. THAT is the only explanation that makes any sense.


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Don't believe sinking pellets will have any affect on the Aro getting DE. What I did observe from my black aro back when I first got it was that it started to develop scar tissue on it's eyes. This came from scraping it's eyes on the substrat while retrieving food of the bottom. Once I eliminated this from happening the eyes cleared up.

Arowana are not made to take food of the bottom, I would not feed sinking foods unless the aro takes it before it hits bottom.
 
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