African arowana at Fish Story

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I've had lot of success raising young African Aros on live blackworms to get them to a safe size where they don't require constant feeding. (they grow extremely fast as babies). The thing I would have done differently was introduced crushed pellets and tiny tiny pieces of shrimp/tilapia with the worms at a younger size. They usually will eat everything once bigger as long as the food wasn't too big.

Here's an old thread I had on one of my baby African Aro growout if you are interested in looking through. (Unfortnately rehomed it when it was 22"-23 since gars were bothering it).
 
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I’ve have an African Aro for about 3 years now. It consistently sifts through the sand to filter food. I feed it 5 times a day. The first feeding is flakes. I pinch the flakes between flat tipped tweezers I have. Tweezers that I use are the type that pick up stamps or something like that. Then stick the flakes below the surface of the water and let them get water logged so they sink. I do this 3 to 5 times a day. I also feed frozen brine shrimp and blood worms once a day. Then once a day I put some small sinking pellets in the tank. I think it’s important these fish have sandy bottom tanks so they can constantly graze all day long.
I’m happy to post pics of my set up if your interested.
 
This 85ish cm (34”ish) African Aro belong to an Indonesian fish keeper. It was raised from 20 cm (7.5”-8”) since November 2022. Tank isn’t really big but fish still grew really well! Main diet was really small pellets.

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