Are arowana cannibal

[Polyaddict86]

Im just wondering if arowana can become cannibals. Alot of fish will eat the same fish if given opportunity especially with a large size difference.

I know when arowana take care of its babies, the male will hide the babies in its mouth for a certain period of time.

So my question is i have a 20” silver arowana’s and i wanted to add a jardini about 5”-6” big, do you think that the silver will eat the jardini. Someone told me that it should be fine since we havent heard of any case that a arowana being a cannibal. What do you guys think?

 

[AnthonyFish20]

Im just wondering if arowana can become cannibals. Alot of fish will eat the same fish if given opportunity especially with a large size difference.

I know when arowana take care of its babies, the male will hide the babies in its mouth for a certain period of time.

So my question is i have a 20” silver arowana’s and i wanted to add a jardini about 5”-6” big, do you think that the silver will eat the jardini. Someone told me that it should be fine since we havent heard of any case that a arowana being a cannibal. What do you guys think?

Jardini are too aggresive and since the silver arowana is triple the size it will beat it up and kill the jardini.
Dont do it

 

[tlindsey]

Personally wouldn't risk it.

 

[kno4te]

I think it would eat the jar.

 

[Galantspeedz]

My previous Asian arowana love eating silvery slim fish most...... used to feed it baby grass carp

 

[Backfromthedead]

20" aro will definitely eat 6" aro.

 

[Mitchell The Monster]

OM NOM NOM. Expensive snack if you ask me

 

[islandguy11]

Not sure if the silver would actually consume the smaller jar (though as others have posted I think it quite possible, esp. if it were hungry), but imo the odds are it would at least eventually beat it up badly or kill it, bit of a gamble that.

 

[Dloks]

Kurt I’ve kept just about every single aro (prior to the ban and hot dogs) they usually do well together when their roughly the same size. 20” aro with a 6” jardini the big boy won’t necessarily eat it but 100% will attack it

 

[Polyaddict86]

I have 3 silver aro in the tank together. My original one was 16” when i introduced a 14” and a 9”, no aggression happening even now. No chasing and fighting, all 3 live in harmony. I tried to put the 5” jar in them last week, it was there for 15-30 min but took it out cause the odoe pike was trying to chase it and maybe trying to eat it, but the 3 aro dont even care that the jar was there.

Another question has anybody ever tried putting a small aro with a bigger aro? Any type of aro.