Are Pellets compulsory?
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Tell your mom to just get you the cheap stuff. I get 3 pounds of frozen raw shrimp for around $5. I can get tilapia for around the same price if its on sale. Frozen krill from your LFS will be far more expensive. I think I paid around $12 for two small frozen slabs. I give them that as a treat.
Actually I have done around 2 months of research before buying my arowana.... I found that my arowana is not big enough to consume all kinds of food. For example frogs,mice. Later this weekend I'll buy tilapia, mealworms,fish and crickets. My LFS has feeder:fish, frogs, Mworms, Sworms,crickets,ghost shrimps and centipede(which are expensive,a nono). They sell two kinds of feeder fish there they are comets and baby carp i think I will get baby carps. Frogs are too big so no... FD krill is too expensive... Yesterday I asked mom and the answer was a stern NO she said it was just too expensive here... And then I asked about shrimp she thought they were the same so another no... I will persuade her again later today. So here is a list of food I am gonna get later:
-Tilapia
-Feeder baby carps
-Crickets
-Mealworms
What else should I get for an arowana of 7"?
Thanks
-Tilapia
-Feeder baby carps
-Crickets
-Mealworms
What else should I get for an arowana of 7"?
Thanks
I think it'd be far easier to just get him on pellets/aro sticks and use the above foods for treats. Aro sticks has all the nutrition he needs, there's no easier way to grow a healthy aro.
I'll agree with pellets as a portion of a diet of a growing aro. Not the primary food source though. My experience with growing out larger fish would suggest that they grow much more robustly on shrimp and worms.
The kid is in SEA it's cheaper to buy live food here than anything else, it's also readily available.
If you can get it on pellets then that's good but in my experience your fish will favor live food. I cannot get mine to take pellets no matter what i try. I gut load SW and it won't eat them, MS loaded it won't eat it, crickets gut loaded it won't eat them.
I gave mine small frogs once but it didn't eat them quick enough and they started to eat each other, ( yes i was feeding them.)
Just buy worms and feed for a week or so then change to something else for another week and keep doing that until you get back to the worms again. I've also been told different stories from different keeps here. Some say super worms are dirty others say clean. Some say ghost shrimp are no good others say the best. Just mix them up is the way to go. Don't bother de-heading the ghost shrimp, just put them in the tank and watch the fish chase them.
I put about 100 or more in my tank every week or so for other fish but my aro is constantly picking them off as well.
If you can get it on pellets then that's good but in my experience your fish will favor live food. I cannot get mine to take pellets no matter what i try. I gut load SW and it won't eat them, MS loaded it won't eat it, crickets gut loaded it won't eat them.
I gave mine small frogs once but it didn't eat them quick enough and they started to eat each other, ( yes i was feeding them.)
Just buy worms and feed for a week or so then change to something else for another week and keep doing that until you get back to the worms again. I've also been told different stories from different keeps here. Some say super worms are dirty others say clean. Some say ghost shrimp are no good others say the best. Just mix them up is the way to go. Don't bother de-heading the ghost shrimp, just put them in the tank and watch the fish chase them.
I put about 100 or more in my tank every week or so for other fish but my aro is constantly picking them off as well.
My RTG actually stopped eating gutloaded superworms. Once I stopped feeding the worms massivore, the aro started eating them again. 
^ I don't feed them, i cut them and push the pellets in! I'll try feeding them now you've said that.
Off topic a bit but it goes to show how intelligent arows are.
Off topic a bit but it goes to show how intelligent arows are.
