Can we teach arowanas?

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rkc772

rkc772

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can we teach or make arowana specially jardinis behave? a lot of us have been trying to mix jardinis with other fish but a lot of us are not lucky enough to make them great community fish with other large fish. but some of the arowana fish keepers has been very successful in keeping jardini in a community. any suggestion? is it changing food from feeders to shrimp? :D a single jardini in a big tank looks bad (IMO). it would be fun to see them in a group of different fish.:)
 
live food feeding to any arowana increases the chances of aggression. with jardinis, i don't think one can teach it to behave if the jardini you got is naturally aggressive. you can teach it simple routines like knowing when its feeding time or getting it used to a type of food, but nothing complex behavioral lessons. especially ones that hopes to change a species related characteristic like jardini aggression. you can keep it in a ginormously large tank with other bigger fishes as space and inferiority diffuses mean streaks.

no karate or ballet lessons for monster fishes......
 
kriztu said:
live food feeding to any arowana increases the chances of aggression. with jardinis, i don't think one can teach it to behave if the jardini you got is naturally aggressive. you can teach it simple routines like knowing when its feeding time or getting it used to a type of food, but nothing complex behavioral lessons. especially ones that hopes to change a species related characteristic like jardini aggression. you can keep it in a ginormously large tank with other bigger fishes as space and inferiority diffuses mean streaks.

no karate or ballet lessons for monster fishes......
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i wish.
 
bull**** del, you were lucky (or unlucky some might say) there was no training involved :D

And silvers are tamer by nature than jardinis.
 
Jardini.....no....depends on the fish.

Silvers are pussies....so yes :D
 
I would have put my last silver aro up against any jardini its' size. it was 20" long and was kicking the hell out oh my 16" royal clown knife. Had to sell it due to aggression and it NEVER had live food. Its all in the fish. Another thing though he could have easily ate my 2 3" clown loaches and never tried. I think some of the reason was it grew up with them since it was very small and never thought of them as food.
 
dodgefreak8 said:
I would have put my last silver aro up against any jardini its' size. it was 20" long and was kicking the hell out oh my 16" royal clown knife. Had to sell it due to aggression and it NEVER had live food. Its all in the fish. Another thing though he could have easily ate my 2 3" clown loaches and never tried. I think some of the reason was it grew up with them since it was very small and never thought of them as food.
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When I had my oscar, it shared a tank w/ 2 fathead minnows that it easily could have eaten, but it treated them more like "friends" lol. This is probably because they were in the tank w/ it since they were all about the same size!
 
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