Variety of different food for arowana

[Evz jardini]

^^ fair point above , you've done the hard part and got it trained on pellets so just offer nothing else he knows it's food for him he's just waiting for something better to come along

 

[jwh]

I feed mine carnisticks, raw fish (tilapia or hake) prawn and scallops, crickets and giant mealworms. Mine goes off some of these foods almost weekly, but will start eating it again at some stage. They can be picky feeders. Cut back on live foods, if you keep feeding crickets daily it will never get off them. Try to give dry food on day one, fish, prawns day two, and rotate, give crickets and worms not more than once per week. Don't stress if it skips feeding a day or two, I've never seen a healthy fish starve itself to death in the presence of food. It's eaten pellets before so will eat them again.

 

[Hendre]

+1 on the schedule

 

[Steven Williams]

Try stuffing a chunk of raw shrimp with carni sticks , if you stuff the middle with enough pellets it'll float I do this with my jardini as part of pellet training

Ok I'll try this

 

[Steven Williams]

Only thing is I don't think you need to train your aro since it was already on pellets before. Just do a water change every 3 days and only feed him pellets if you keep giving him the option of crickets or anything besides pellets he'll never feel the need to eat the the pellets.

Ok then I'll keep doing this

 

[Steven Williams]

I feed mine carnisticks, raw fish (tilapia or hake) prawn and scallops, crickets and giant mealworms. Mine goes off some of these foods almost weekly, but will start eating it again at some stage. They can be picky feeders. Cut back on live foods, if you keep feeding crickets daily it will never get off them. Try to give dry food on day one, fish, prawns day two, and rotate, give crickets and worms not more than once per week. Don't stress if it skips feeding a day or two, I've never seen a healthy fish starve itself to death in the presence of food. It's eaten pellets before so will eat them again.

Ok thanks

 

[Steven Williams]

^^ fair point above , you've done the hard part and got it trained on pellets so just offer nothing else he knows it's food for him he's just waiting for something better to come along

Ok

 

[Steven Williams]

Great news guys
The arowana ate 11 pellets today
I was feeding the Angels in its tank along with my Cory cats and it swam up to me so I tossed a few pellets in and it ate them and it ate more and more
I stopped at 11 cause I didn't want to overload too much for its first day back on pellets
Thanks guys for helping

Update on water

Thanks for all the help freshfishin727

 

[freshfishin727]

Great news guys
The arowana ate 11 pellets today
I was feeding the Angels in its tank along with my Cory cats and it swam up to me so I tossed a few pellets in and it ate them and it ate more and more
I stopped at 11 cause I didn't want to overload too much for its first day back on pellets
Thanks guys for helping

Update on water

Thanks for all the help freshfishin727

This made my day, so happy to hear that he came around. I lover the angels with the aro, people would be surprised how good of tank mates large angelfish make for arowana and other large fish. I have 5 angels in my tank with my aro and monsters

 

[Hendre]

He looks great. What size tank is that? And good luck with the fish in future