Aro - diet change?

[Fai]

Hi,

My silver aro is now 13 inches and lives with 1 Pelco, 1 Gara (Dr. Fish), and a pair of Red Blood Parrots.

Current Diet – Hikari Sticks daily; approx 30 – 50 sticks; Every Friday, cricket or Hikari Krill. Aro loves the Krill and will gobble a few even after 50 sticks meal. This food is shared by the others as well; however they have their own food served.

Occasionally, give her a dose of Hikari Krill. She will not touch any other Krill. I also feed market shrimp which were gobbled up immed in the past; but now they don’t catch much attention. One instance, fed Beef Heart; enjoyed it, but think it was heavy on the stomach cause the after that for 2 days, Aro was sitting at the bottom of the tank.

Recently, I introduced Gara #2; approx 1.5 inches; since the last 3 days, I cannot find it anywhere?

I am looking to alter the feed for Aro. Any suggestions? I don’t mind live feed. My bro has suggested, live guppy feeder fish and am contemplating the thought. What have other MFKers used; both Live or otherwise.

Thanks.

Fai

 

[Gshock]

Dont feed live, not the best of ideas. You put a 1.5" fish into a tank with a 13" aro, did you expect that thing not to get eaten?

 

[Juxtaroberto]

Pellets contain most of what a fish need, and the crickets and krill you feed are good variety on top of that. If you want your aro to get more nutrition, you can gutload the crickets with food made specially for that. It comes in a plastic jar, and it's made up of little moist orange cubes that the crickets are crazy for and which are packed with vitamins and minerals. Sorry I can't remember the name, I haven't had to feed crickets to anything in a while.

Live feeders are never a very good option, unless you breed them yourself. So then you have to set up a separate tank, spend money on filters, heaters, and the electricity it takes to run them, not to mention nutritious food so that they pass the nutrients on to the arowana. If you just buy small feeders at the petstore, they could contain parasites and diseases, and not have a very high nutrient content (especially goldfish, and all other carp, which contain high levels of thiaminase, which causes a vitamin B (thiamine) deficiency in anything that eats too much of it).

It sounds like you've got a good combination going. I wouldn't change anything about it.