Adopted a Silver aro today...

[davo]

weird deformaty. Is it common for them to humpback?

 

[ethnics]

good job bderick, congrats on the new adoption. deformed or not, its a great fish and ur a good man for saving it.

 

[Tychevelle]

Awesome ! they look so good together ! good rescue glad hes got a responsable owner now any idea how old he is? how old is ur other silver? I got an asian green and im thinkin of maybe getting a silver also...

 

[Bderick67]

Awesome ! they look so good together ! good rescue glad hes got a responsable owner now any idea how old he is? how old is ur other silver? I got an asian green and im thinkin of maybe getting a silver also...

The previous owner had him for a year and a half, got him at 6". The smaller one I got in Feb of 2006 at 3.5"


I am starting to get concerned though, the big guy still has not eaten for me. He was fed only Cichlid sticks by the previous owner.

 

[HiGhTiMeZ]

its ok man! hes a big guy! he can handle months of starvation.
he will eat if he gets hungry.

 

[Bderick67]

Well he finally ate a few cichlid sticks this morning. Then I did a water change and he freaked. Ended up not doing a gravel vac and just drained and refilled. Hopefully he'll be more agreable with it next week.

 

[hillbilly]

You should call him "Igor". Seriously, that fish has had a tough life. Good luck with it.

 

[Bderick67]

You should call him "Igor". Seriously, that fish has had a tough life. Good luck with it.

Man that fits perfect, I was gonna call him "Quasimodo" but the wife informed me that we are not in Notre Dame. So she came up with "Big Al"


BTW the girl in my avitar is known as "Elvira"

 

[Opiate]

well done!!

 

[zerojquan85]

Ok.. not to be a rotten egg and bring back old wounds..

but were these the two arowana that jumped on you???? and the same tank??

They look a bit different from the arowana you posted...