Baby aro help pls.

[Bderick67]

Keep from feeding anything hard and only feed floating foods right now. Best bet is just stick with freeze dried blood worms and a quality flake food. Once they start eating feed small amount 4 or 5 times daily.

To make your aros more comfortable, get some floating plastic plants. I would also lower the water line a couple of inches below the top of the tank. Temperature at 82 degrees.

Good luck and enjoyed them while they are small.

120 gallons is not big enough. unless you like stunting the growth of your animal. Silver Aros in captivity can grow to at least four feet and at most 6+. And you have two of them. And the inch per fish rule does not apply to a creature that only swims at the surface. Minimum recommend tank size for one silver aro is 250 gallons according to this website http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+1984+858&pcatid=858
but members on this forum have recommended around 480 gallons for life.
And pellet training is not hard...... i pellet trained my jar in a 55 it took a day the store was previously feeding it bloodworms and feeders, the jar was also 3 inches when i bought it. good luck with your fishkeeping

If your gonna be the "Tank Size Police" at least provide valid information.
Plus learn to state recommended tank sizes in dimensions, volume is the result of proper dimensions.

 

[WHITECJ2OW]

i know you tried bloodworms but what kinda ? I know my small aro cannot resist atleast trying frozen bloodworms (the cubes dipped into the tank) its like crickets :|

 

[xdragonxb0i]

120 gallons is not big enough. unless you like stunting the growth of your animal. Silver Aros in captivity can grow to at least four feet and at most 6+. And you have two of them. And the inch per fish rule does not apply to a creature that only swims at the surface. Minimum recommend tank size for one silver aro is 250 gallons according to this website http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+1984+858&pcatid=858
but members on this forum have recommended around 480 gallons for life.
And pellet training is not hard...... i pellet trained my jar in a 55 it took a day the store was previously feeding it bloodworms and feeders, the jar was also 3 inches when i bought it. good luck with your fishkeeping

how can a 3 inch jar already eat feeders? i have to break baby shrimp in half (like less then a cm long) before mines take a bite,
anyway if i feel like i need to go bigger,

i can always get a rubbermaid tank/kiddie pool and have an indoor pond =D

 

[Onion01]

took more than a week for my aro to start eating. no worries

 

[hmoobvwj]

A 120 gallon with the right footprints can easily grow a silver out to 20" or so.
Silvers in the wild get to only around a meter long not two. Just keep trying everyday, hopefully they will start eating and best of luck.

 

[xdragonxb0i]

yeah thanx guys, they are starting to eat dried baby shrimp

I cant wait for them to grow longer, so i can put them in an empty stock 125gallon

 

[acrylic world]

Hi, any picture?

 

[xdragonxb0i]

Hi, any picture?

Of course. sorry for low lighting, i did the best i could at photoshopping.
I have two aros, 3 gold nugget plecos L-018.
i orignally baught 3 aros, and 4 Gold nuggets.
but one of each died on arrival.

Here are their tank mates

Thanx everyone for your advice, here are some pics, enjoy

 

[smartlove_518]

Of course. sorry for low lighting, i did the best i could at photoshopping.
I have two aros, 3 gold nugget plecos L-018.
i orignally baught 3 aros, and 4 Gold nuggets.
but one of each died on arrival.

Here are their tank mates

Thanx everyone for your advice, here are some pics, enjoy

they look so cute..good luck with keeping them.