Baby Arrows

[Xanatost]

My lfs has 3 baby arrows for sell. They still have there yoke sacks attached. How hard is it to train a baby arow to eat pellet foods instead of live? The arow I had escaped out of my tank a few weeks ago and I would love to have another one. I'm not a fan of feeding live feeder fish. Any info will be helpful. I have a 10 gal set up just for them until they get big enough for my 45 molly tank and then they will get moved to my 240gal. I really miss my arow and I would like to get another one and if I can grow him out that would be even better. 99% of all my fish I have grown out

 

[cichlid savage]

My aro loves Hikari carnivore stick as well as Hikari pellets, and freeze dried krill. I had no problems getting him to eat them.

 

[Xanatost]

My aro loves Hikari carnivore stick as well as Hikari pellets, and freeze dried krill. I had no problems getting him to eat them.

How big was yours when you got it? I'm just worried that after the yoke sack is gone that I will have a hard time to get them to eat and if I can get them to eat, can I get them to start eating pellets.

 

[AquataHolic420]

MY old aro ate everything i fed it, i t would literally eat ANYTHING. but how much are your baby aro's going for with the yolk sacks? my Gf just put one on hold at the LFS for me for 18$ i thought it was a Black Aro and that the LFS mislabeled, but i think theyre silver aro's now. but regardless they are cool, and they are eating flakes already even with the sack still attached. But seriously how much are they where u are?

 

[haynboy8]

it should be easy to get them to eat pellets. When i got my baby arrow(just off the sack) it wouldnt eat for a couple days because it was still getting used to the tank. Then it started to eat hikari gold pellets. Just put the pellets in and it will eat it if its hungry.

 

[95Harley]

At that small of a size you can tell right away if it's a black or silver. The blacks are coal black with a yellow stripe.

I personally would not touch an arrow with a yolk sack. Just be patient, your risk is pretty high that they won't make it. The netting, moving, etc can damage that sack and cause certain death. At size I would also not try multiple one's in a 10 gal tank. If they show any terrirtorial movements they can easily kill each other.

And lastly at the smallest size the easiest thing to feed them is dried floating bloodworms, just turn off your filter or water movement while you feed and give them time to feed off the top.

But my advice is to either wait till they loose the sac or wait for the next batch to come in.

 

[T1KARMANN]

At that small of a size you can tell right away if it's a black or silver. The blacks are coal black with a yellow stripe.

I personally would not touch an arrow with a yolk sack. Just be patient, your risk is pretty high that they won't make it. The netting, moving, etc can damage that sack and cause certain death. At size I would also not try multiple one's in a 10 gal tank. If they show any terrirtorial movements they can easily kill each other.

And lastly at the smallest size the easiest thing to feed them is dried floating bloodworms, just turn off your filter or water movement while you feed and give them time to feed off the top.

But my advice is to either wait till they loose the sac or wait for the next batch to come in.

good advice

 

[Xanatost]

MY old aro ate everything i fed it, i t would literally eat ANYTHING. but how much are your baby aro's going for with the yolk sacks? my Gf just put one on hold at the LFS for me for 18$ i thought it was a Black Aro and that the LFS mislabeled, but i think theyre silver aro's now. but regardless they are cool, and they are eating flakes already even with the sack still attached. But seriously how much are they where u are?

They have them for 20.00 apiece and they are deflenty silvers. That makes me feel better about getting them. I think I'll go a head get them to hold them for me.

 

[Xanatost]

At that small of a size you can tell right away if it's a black or silver. The blacks are coal black with a yellow stripe.

I personally would not touch an arrow with a yolk sack. Just be patient, your risk is pretty high that they won't make it. The netting, moving, etc can damage that sack and cause certain death. At size I would also not try multiple one's in a 10 gal tank. If they show any terrirtorial movements they can easily kill each other.

And lastly at the smallest size the easiest thing to feed them is dried floating bloodworms, just turn off your filter or water movement while you feed and give them time to feed off the top.

But my advice is to either wait till they loose the sac or wait for the next batch to come in.

Thats what the guy at my fish store told me to. He has had them before that small in the past. He said that he will hold them for me (till there yoke sacks are gone and are eating pellets). He has them in a 15gal long with plenty of hiding and swimming room. If I wanted to pick them up early he has a way of catching them with out using a net that would hurt there yoke sacks. He said it would be about the end of the week for the sacks to be gone and that Wednesday of next week they should be eating and I could pick them up then. I can waite Thanks for the info.

 

[Red Devil]

MY old aro ate everything i fed it, i t would literally eat ANYTHING. but how much are your baby aro's going for with the yolk sacks? my Gf just put one on hold at the LFS for me for 18$ i thought it was a Black Aro and that the LFS mislabeled, but i think theyre silver aro's now. but regardless they are cool, and they are eating flakes already even with the sack still attached. But seriously how much are they where u are?

from what i read they should not eat anything until the egg sack is completely gone..because it can become a source of bacteria infection if it does not get all used up..these sound just like what i saw in my LFS today.. should not buy with sack..