Baby silver aro

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Sutt.72

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I bought a baby silver arrowana after a few yrs of thinking about it, now he's been in a separate tank from my main tank, quarantined obviously and due to my main tank having a 10" red tiger Oscar and a smaller 5" albino tiger Oscar. They get on fine together and with there only other tank mates, 3 red hooked silver dollars, I introduced the silver arrowana a few weeks ago now and the Oscars teamed up on him and battered him within an hour, I pulled him out of the relentless carnage and put him back in his temporary home. The arrowana is about 7", any advice would be grateful, he's putting on weight, eating a varied diet of pellet (hikari) crickets, which have been fattened up with carrots and shrimp, de shelled
, I've also made a egg crate tank divider for my main tank to hopefully transfer him over to. Any help and advise would be grateful appreciated. Craig
 
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Could be difficult, oscars own the tank, you'll have to wait until the aro is much bigger, and perhaps try the separator, you may want to give some thought about redoing the tank, new scaping etc, and introduce all the fish at the same time
 
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Yeah thanks, I have a hystrix Ray on order, I was thinking of rescaping and adding the Ray at the same time as taking the egg crate out and releasing the silver arro, this hopefully confuse the Oscars abit and keep the aggression shared?
 
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Yeah thanks, I have a hystrix Ray on order, I was thinking of rescaping and adding the Ray at the same time as taking the egg crate out and releasing the silver arro, this hopefully confuse the Oscars abit and keep the aggression shared?
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Make sure the ray gets enough food the oscars and arro will eat everything and leave nothing for the ray
 
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Yeah, I've already purchased some really long food tongues, the same ones you feed snakes with, should be able get it directly down to him then
 
I've now put the divider in the tank and the aro also, Dave, (the big oscar) hasn't shown a massive amount of interest in him, just occasionally giving him the eyeball through the egg crate, but no signs of aggression whatsoever?! How long would you usually leave this set up for? I realise that the aro has to fill out a bit before I consider doing this so I know this isn't going to be a matter of days. The arrowana on the other hand looks to be a very happy and relaxed fish at the moment.
 
What are the dimensions of the main aquarium?
 
Very nice size tank!! Sorry I can't help on the arrowana.
 
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