Can I add an Arowana to this setup?

[RD.]

I've seen aro comms too, in person, probably the most impressive one ever seen on MFK.

But that wasn't silver comms, in a tank. A pond is a whole nuther thing altogether. Easy peasy to comm fish in a large pond.

 

[islandguy11]

Whaaaat ? Lmaoo your actually worse than the girl i dated.

Buddy you need help my man. I think your taking the internet thing too seriously. How about duanes and tac dont have personal issues. Other things to talk about maybe.

Quit comparing me to your past girlfriend -- along with the sweetheart and buttercup stuff you're starting to give me some serious eejie weebies -- I already told you I'm not into that stuff.

And I posted another thread afterwards -- about size of arowana in the wild, also trying to steer the convo back to OP's subject -- why are taking this internet thing so seriously that you saw the need to reply to my other post? Or were you just faking with your 'serous' posts? No need to answer, we already know.

Also you didn't call Duanes and tac out in another post, maybe that's why they didn't respond in kind, duh.

 

[RD.]

In short i think the hormonal impulses of breeding competition can, albeit temporarily, outweigh food sources and water quality. Not that we should slack on these at all of course.

Absolutely. Gonadal swings is what triggers large nuchal humps in male fish. It's like a mini spurt of growth hormones.

 

[jaws7777]

While on the subject, the myth of fish only growing to the size of a tank.
Is it the actually square footage?
In a way yes, but no.
Because in a small tank the water goes bad very fast, so the reality is, a fish will cease to grow if conditions are bad.
But what about good filtration?
Filtration holds particulate, and the benificial bacteria that use ammonia and nitrate.
What filters don't do, is remove those growth chemical and organic substances like hormones, and nitrate, that only water changes do.
So to me, most filtration is a smoke screen, there to make the viewer happy, not the fish.
In nature the fish are invisible due to turbidity and particulate, look at the Mississippi and try to see the fish, yet they are there, living quite well, and growing to massive sizes.

do the growth inhibiting hormones have some affect in the wild ? obviously not as great an impact as a tank but do they play a role ? If its taking place in nature maybe its not as easily remedied in our tanks or does have a purpose.

 

[islandguy11]

Silver aro comm tank....life goals.

What amazed me about most of these cases is that i never noticed the fish eating any more, sometimes the opposite--spending all of their time building nests or fighting for territory.

In short i think the hormonal impulses of breeding competition can, albeit temporarily, outweigh food sources and water quality. Not that we should slack on these at all of course.

Makes sense, in many way hormonal impulses run the world

 

[jaws7777]

Quit comparing me to your past girlfriend -- along with the sweetheart and buttercup stuff you're starting to give me some serious eejie weebies -- I already told you I'm not into that stuff.

And I posted another thread afterwards -- about size of arowana in the wild, also trying to steer the convo back to OP's subject -- why are taking this internet thing so seriously that you saw the need to reply to my other post? Or were you just faking with your 'serous' posts? No need to answer, we already know.

Also you didn't call Duanes and tac out in another post, maybe that's why they didn't respond in kind, duh.

dude I think you should run along now. Your tarnishing the image you have of yourself. Now Im making fake posts ? hahah add that to the keeping fish in small tanks and trolling b.s must be bored. Go start the thread and stop whining like a child. Remember you could rid yourself of this madness. whats this taking swings you speak of ?

 

[Backfromthedead]

do the growth inhibiting hormones have some affect in the wild ? obviously not as great an impact as a tank but do they play a role ?

Thats a good point. In the wild one could assume that there would never be a situation where the inhibiting hormones would concentrate to make a difference. Which would beg the question why did the fish ever evolve to produce such hormones?

 

[jaws7777]

Thats a good point. In the wild one could assume that there would never be a situation where the inhibiting hormones would concentrate to make a difference. Which would beg the question why did the fish ever evolve to produce such hormones?

right or there is a useful purpose. The ladies like the big strong colorful alpha dog lol

 

[islandguy11]

dude I think you should run along now. Your tarnishing the image you have of yourself. Now Im making fake posts ? hahah add that to the keeping fish in small tanks and trolling b.s must be bored. Go start the thread and stop whining like a child. Remember you could rid yourself of this madness. whats this taking swings you speak of ?

Ok Big Daddy, I'll do whatever you say, anything to make you happy, do with me as you please... -- All good now? In any case given your predilections there's plenty of fantasy material for you tonite during quiet time.

And lol the irony, the guy who first started the trouble on this thread -- trying to make me look like a hypocrite with the 'subtle' jab about keeping Aros -- is now shooing people away from the thread. Dude you're just too much.

 

[Rocksor]

right or there is a useful purpose. The ladies like the big strong colorful alpha dog lol

Or tell the smaller guys, hey big man coming through..... take on sub-dominant male juvenile features so you don't get beat up or eaten.