If your ichthyologist friend tells you a diet of crickets as staple is better than a variety with krill then he clearly doesn't specialize much in aros...
Actually he said a varied diet would be best. As I typed, in the wild they would eat mostly floating insects. I caught a few flies yesterday. He ate one. This is a tiny little guy. Maybe 2-3 inches. I only bought him because he likely wouldn't have lived long where they had him. Crickets are easy to store and easy to find. There isn't much shrimp where they live so I'm staying away from that.
I have a friend who has had one for about a year. He swears by the krill. I don't think his was this small when he bought it. Bugs are high protien low fat. sounds good to me. Funny, he eats a few flakes here and there too. Good fish.
Yeah, maybe I should just give up. I obviously will never have the experience, time, resources, or intellegence necesary to raise an arowana from fry to adult. I'll go flush this one immediately. After all, the experts tell me I'm doing everything right. Then the other experts tell me I'm doing everything wrong. Kinda like politics. I've got a rather large collection of fish. They are healthy. They breed. They die of old age. I'm 45. Been doing this awhile. I appreciate the advice when given in good faith.
His name is Igor. I'll keep you posted as to his well being. He's quite the hunter. Today he got a cricket trying to escape up a plant stem. Don't coount him dead yet. left in the store he'd be dead by now.
Advices are like ***, everybody has one. The problem is you just take whatever advice without any sort of selectivity. I advice you take advices from some experts like Gshock, Bderick and stick with them. I'm sure they will be more willing to help if you are serious on keeping arowana [which up to this point, I don't think you are since you have been treating an aro's life like dirt]
Stop using excuses. You are just killing arowanas unecessary and putting the blame on your wife
I hope one day your wife wants a lion, bear or tiger. Lets see if the owner kills the pet or its the other way around
Yes, childhood was ***** up. Not sure how that is affecting my fish. I though Martinboy's responses were both thoughtful and insightful. I'm others are just as expert, but many have jumped to conclusions without reading thoroughly. I thank them anyway.