Asian aro, Food?

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Heppy said:
ive had my asian aro now for about 8 months and it will only eat live food it gets a mixture of crickets, mealworms, earthworms(nightcrawlers) and the occasional cockroach and goldfish. ive tried giving it just about everything else but it won't take them. has anyone managed to get their aro eating dead foods if so what? and what did you do? also what would be the best diet for an asian aro?

cheers
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wow. the type of foods that you feed your aro are their favourite food. very addictive to them. you'd be having a very hard time to get them to take in other type of food.

perhaps you could try starving them for a few days and try feed them with your prefered food again. good luck.
 
Heppy said:
ive had my asian aro now for about 8 months and it will only eat live food it gets a mixture of crickets, mealworms, earthworms(nightcrawlers) and the occasional cockroach and goldfish. ive tried giving it just about everything else but it won't take them. has anyone managed to get their aro eating dead foods if so what? and what did you do? also what would be the best diet for an asian aro?

cheers
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Try feeding it with mice beef. I get positive result for my RTG. size getting bigger and color very red. :grinno:
 
and is all seafood good for fish ?
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from what ive heard, you should feed fish food from the same water they came from (i.e freswater/ saltwater) salt water fish should not be fed freshwater fish because freshwater fish have more salt in their bodies via osmosis, and if you feed them to saltwater fish which struggle to keep a low salt content in their bodies, they can be stressed because they are eating food with the very mineral they are trying to purge from their bodies. vice versa with fresh water fish eating sea food.

im not saying dont feed sea food, just dont go exclusively, prawns are good for arows especially for red color, as for fish, i would try salmon or trout, mmmmmmMMMMMMM!
 
ezman said:
As for me, my aro is eating all kinds of food from live food to frozen market prawns, lives feeder shrimps & fishes, etc......Anything that I throw into the tank, the fellow will accept!!!

How you gonna introduce the new food to your aros?? Guess one of the best method is to start feeding the baby with the food that u want her to accept....

Other than that, mayb you can try the starving method....U can know your aro's habit like, how long will the fellow give up and starts eating after being starved for days/weeks......

Another method will be adding tankmates into the tank....this method is very efficient bcos when there is competition, the aro will automatically tuned to grabbing whatever that is being throw into the tank. They knows that if they dun grab the food, once the food is being eaten they wont get have eat anything!!

hope that the above tips is helpful.... :)
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the man has spoken.... what else to say. :)
 
forgot to add, i was feeding my aro small frogs when it was months old. but i still prefer market prawns.
 
I've had my HBRTG for 1.5 month now and it's about 6 inches. Been feeding it mostly mealworms kept in a container filled with oatmeal, crushed pellets and some carrots. It's eaten some frozen bloodworms a few times, but I've been unsuccessful with pellets and market prawns so far.

Anyway, i just wanna know the best food to bring out the overall gold color and its significant red tail? I saw at the LFS a RTG that was smaller than mine and it had the most brilliant red tail I'd ever seen. Mine didn't even come close to the redness of that fish's tail and that is why I wanna know people's secret diet for their RTG's. :D
 
you gotta wait. RTG wont have shine until they get bigger. Just be patient. After it gets about 12 inches try to force it to eat pellets. starve it until it eats them. keep trying the prawns too.
 
my aro used to just eat market shrimp or tilapia fillets....he would never touch the hikari pellets....i starved him for 2 days and then the next day only put the food sticks in there...at first he spit it out...then the next day i still only gave him pellets...he ate them this time....3rd day i gave him back his fillets as a reward...but now he eats both pellets and fillets....
 
I would SERIOUSLY reconsider the pinkies idea. I was told that pinkies are very high in fat content which is too high for a fish to eat at any one time. Same goes for omnivorous lizards (that;s how I figured that out....from my vet). Don't just fatten the arrowana up but bulk it up. That means high quality protein. I figured that as long as it stinks good (ie dried shrimp) it is usually taken by the fish. Also try dangeling the fare infront of the fish. The movement may induce feeding...then after a couple of tries he will realize that it tastes good and eat the food on his own without wiggeling :)
 
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