Hi Everybody,
I've just gotten myself my first Arowana recently (about a week ago). He is still only a Juvenile. around 6inch only.
However ever since i've gotten him he would only sit around on the bottom of the tank during the day and i mean literally he spends like 90% of the time during the day sitting on the bottom of the tank.
He would only swim around like a "normal" Arowana at night, when everyone's asleep and all lights are (pitch black). I feed him around 5 feeder guppies per day. He does eat all of them... however never in my sight (talking about good appetite! once he ate 7 of it). I would put in the guppies everyday only to find them missing the next morning. He will never never eat infront of me
And because of this i could only enjoy watching him during the night in pitch black cause that's the only time he will swim 
I suppose he is still stressed by the new environment + he was kept in a small bag for quite sometime already when i bought him. I dosed and aged my water well, added some black water extract today but i didn't see any improvement. Heard/researched and was adviced by LFS to dose some salt but i'm reluctant of it as i doesn't want to dose my pail of age water everytime i do WC (as i use the same water for my other fishes in other tanks and worry i might screw up the dosage of the salt when i add "new" water to the old water during WC)
I know he will need sometime to get use by himself but... any idea how long will it take for a young Juvenile Arowana to settle in?
Thank you
I've just gotten myself my first Arowana recently (about a week ago). He is still only a Juvenile. around 6inch only.
However ever since i've gotten him he would only sit around on the bottom of the tank during the day and i mean literally he spends like 90% of the time during the day sitting on the bottom of the tank.
He would only swim around like a "normal" Arowana at night, when everyone's asleep and all lights are (pitch black). I feed him around 5 feeder guppies per day. He does eat all of them... however never in my sight (talking about good appetite! once he ate 7 of it). I would put in the guppies everyday only to find them missing the next morning. He will never never eat infront of me
And because of this i could only enjoy watching him during the night in pitch black cause that's the only time he will swim I suppose he is still stressed by the new environment + he was kept in a small bag for quite sometime already when i bought him. I dosed and aged my water well, added some black water extract today but i didn't see any improvement. Heard/researched and was adviced by LFS to dose some salt but i'm reluctant of it as i doesn't want to dose my pail of age water everytime i do WC (as i use the same water for my other fishes in other tanks and worry i might screw up the dosage of the salt when i add "new" water to the old water during WC)
I know he will need sometime to get use by himself but... any idea how long will it take for a young Juvenile Arowana to settle in?
Thank you
