^ i change what i feed it every few days. But if i did only feed it crickets then suddenly stopped it would refuse food until it got hungry then would eat other food right?
Best Food for Asian Arowana
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classic-chassis;2361943; said:
Which can take a while for your aro to accept other foods and also might make your aro lose appetite for a long time to get ya worried
JP
It gets bored of the same same.
It started to turn it's nose up at shrimp after about 2 weeks of nothing else.
I rotate food now.
Funnily enough there is still a feeder in the tank from about a month ago, and there is a population of small river shrimp which i've decided to leave in there. They clean the bottom of worm and cricket debree.
It started to turn it's nose up at shrimp after about 2 weeks of nothing else.
I rotate food now.
Funnily enough there is still a feeder in the tank from about a month ago, and there is a population of small river shrimp which i've decided to leave in there. They clean the bottom of worm and cricket debree.
My experience, aros will stick to what they get used to
Prawns have little to no vitamins. It has good protein, roughly 18 to 20% but no vitamins and has only very little to no trace elements.
when fish eat other fish and animals in the wild, they eat whats inside the belly, wether it be insect larvae or plant material. so they get all sorts.
If you feed it feeders, then first quarantine them, put them in a tank wiht a good filter, feed the feeders all sorts of food, so they have random things in their belly, or feed the feeder fish aro pellets, and after it has eated, feed it to the aro its like a moving sandwich...
but i found that shrimp will always gunk up the top of the water in a tank with no over flow, so i dont like it.
i am on day 9 of starving my red aro - it is not taking pellets, it will take a few a day - sometimes chews it and eats half and spits out half. so at least its eating.
nature will not , or should not in theory let an animal starve itself to death. I am sure it will eat the hikari food sticks and start to love it like it did prawn.
whta i did was feed it shelled prawn stuffed with pellets. but it dirtied the water. so i am moving onto hikari.
I have been researching Pellets, hikari seems to be a very good brand.
and it does have a high concentration of caretanoids and beta-carotene. Which is directly involved in pigmentation - such as pink flamingos cannot pigment with out this.
Prawns have little to no vitamins. It has good protein, roughly 18 to 20% but no vitamins and has only very little to no trace elements.
when fish eat other fish and animals in the wild, they eat whats inside the belly, wether it be insect larvae or plant material. so they get all sorts.
If you feed it feeders, then first quarantine them, put them in a tank wiht a good filter, feed the feeders all sorts of food, so they have random things in their belly, or feed the feeder fish aro pellets, and after it has eated, feed it to the aro
its like a moving sandwich...but i found that shrimp will always gunk up the top of the water in a tank with no over flow, so i dont like it.
i am on day 9 of starving my red aro - it is not taking pellets, it will take a few a day - sometimes chews it and eats half and spits out half. so at least its eating.
nature will not , or should not in theory let an animal starve itself to death. I am sure it will eat the hikari food sticks and start to love it like it did prawn.
whta i did was feed it shelled prawn stuffed with pellets. but it dirtied the water. so i am moving onto hikari.
I have been researching Pellets, hikari seems to be a very good brand.
and it does have a high concentration of caretanoids and beta-carotene. Which is directly involved in pigmentation - such as pink flamingos cannot pigment with out this.
Also, i highly disagree that shrimp and prawn cloud eyes. I have a jar that has clear eyes and fed on whole prawns. I find that feeding him shells have increased his shine - bizzare really but he is a rather shiny jardinii.
Id love to get my rtg to eat any kind of pellet or food stick but ive tried everything,i tried starving him,for ages (5 to 6 weeks!!!!)but still wouldnt eat them so i tried putting them inside the prawns he likes but he spat them out and wouldnt eat prawns for a few weeks so i gave up and he now eats mealworms,prawns,crickets and the occasional bit of krill.
cheers steve
cheers steve
JPlikewoah;2361777; said:
SW's don't necessarily cause poppy or dropeye....genetics play a KEY role here.... not only food ....IME.
My aro's were raised on crickets (gutloaded) and none are addicted to them. After a while they get bored of the same food over and over. IMO, SW are more addicting to aro's than crickets.
Anyways like everyone else already said, 'variety is the spice of life.' My aros were all raised on mealworms, crickets, SW, pelets, shrimp, krill, etc.
spwd;2363790; said:
That is exactly like my fish.
Once it realised there was sticks in the shrimp it stopped eating it, until i stopped putting sticks in.
I'm feeding crickets aro pellets!!!!!heward said:
They must think they're in gourmet heaven!!!
