my aro really seems to like them. would they help in the prevention of drop eye cuase of the low to zero fat factor and high protein. and wut other foods would accomplish the same thing? i heard something about cocktail shrimp soakd in a vitamin solution or somehting to that effect. hook me up
crickets?
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Not cocktail shrimp since most nutrients are cooked out. Offer your aro raw shrimp, meal worms, crickets, FD krill/plankton/mysis shrimp, and arowana sticks. Older aros can be fed the occassional anole lizard, grass frog, and corn snake (My large silvers liked them) along with crickets, FD krill/plankton/mysis shrimp, and aro sticks.
Not cocktail shrimp since most nutrients are cooked out. Offer your aro raw shrimp, meal worms, crickets, FD krill/plankton/mysis shrimp, and arowana sticks. Older aros can be fed the occassional anole lizard, grass frog, and corn snake (My large silvers liked them) along with crickets, FD krill/plankton/mysis shrimp, and aro sticks.
its better to feed your arowana a balanced diet of insects (crickets & superworms), shrimp, mussels and frozen fish.. the problem with crickets and superworms if used as staple is they have this addicting effect on arowanas and they won't take any other food after sometime of feeding them exclusively on those..
I've been trying mixed food lately and so far so good, ingredients are as follows:
These are just approximents
- 1.5 kg of raw prawns (remove head and shell)
- 0.5 kg smelts
- 0.5 kg anchovies
- 0.5 kg beef liver or heart
- 1/2 package of frozen chopped spinach
- 1 cup of shelled peas
- 2 large carrots
- 2 cups of arowana floating food
I use food processor and mince everything one iteam at a time to mud like consistency, then mixing all togther in large bowl, add gelitin to bind ingredients, put in large freezer bags.
The reason I'm trying this is that my fish get fussy most times, so I though I could feed them one thing with everything in it
that would be the way to go.Next batch Igoing to add a container of superworms aswell. The nice part of this is that what the aro's don't eat or miss the loachs, rays, and pleco's clean up. I've only been trying this for a few days know and almost all the fish are going for it now.
These are just approximents
- 1.5 kg of raw prawns (remove head and shell)
- 0.5 kg smelts
- 0.5 kg anchovies
- 0.5 kg beef liver or heart
- 1/2 package of frozen chopped spinach
- 1 cup of shelled peas
- 2 large carrots
- 2 cups of arowana floating food
I use food processor and mince everything one iteam at a time to mud like consistency, then mixing all togther in large bowl, add gelitin to bind ingredients, put in large freezer bags.
The reason I'm trying this is that my fish get fussy most times, so I though I could feed them one thing with everything in it
that would be the way to go.Next batch Igoing to add a container of superworms aswell. The nice part of this is that what the aro's don't eat or miss the loachs, rays, and pleco's clean up. I've only been trying this for a few days know and almost all the fish are going for it now.Welcome. Oak Harbor WA? USA? Welcome. My aro is crazy over crickets, everyone has great ideas here. I feed the crickets grated carrots and ground up hikari carnivore pellets and then he'll switch back from live to pellets because they must taste or smell very similar.
YES I AGREE. try some rotation to give your aro the best of everything, and sorry i dont think there is any real preventive strategy for dropeye
yeah. agree with the rest of the members. dun feed cocktail shrimps. go for raw shrimps, they are better. if your aro can accept pallets that would be the best cos the usually contain most of the vitamins for your fish.
else you could try out beefheart that's mixed with vitamins. usually aros would reject these foods if you've been feeding them live foods or insects. you'll need to starve your aro a bit to get them chomping on the ones i've suggested.
else you could try out beefheart that's mixed with vitamins. usually aros would reject these foods if you've been feeding them live foods or insects. you'll need to starve your aro a bit to get them chomping on the ones i've suggested.
In my experience, arows will eat anything. Pellets specially made for them are probably the best option, but for variety mine has eaten any type of small fish that it can fit in its mouth, lizards, mice, worms, mealworms, other types of bugs, small snakes, basically everything you can think of lol