Dark background on your arowana tank?
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Whether it would work for your Aros or not, this is something to remember. For mine this did not work. I got 2 silvers in januarary at 3-4" put in an 85 gallon community tank together. Well at the time this tank had 2 Emp 400's on it the poor things couldn't handle the surface currrent. They then went into a 55 gallon planted discus tank, within two days lots of visible fighting, in one week on of them would stay at the bottom of the tank. so I took out the aggressive and had to keep in a 20 gallon, every couple weeks I would try to reintroduce but with no success, with the silver from the 55g always being the aggresser so they alternated tanks for about 5 -6 weeks. now where 5 inch. during this time I had switched the 2 400s on the 85 to a wet/dry sump so I put both aros in that tank at the same time in a week I had the same result. I guess these two where just destine to fight no matter what. I later tried one more time to put together in a 75g when they were 7 and 8.5 inches with no success. The backgrouds on the tanks; 55g was black, 85g was light blue, and the 75g was no background.
I learn something about water quality though, In the month span I had on in a 55 gallon discus tank which received 2 30 -40% water changes a week. The other was in a larger 85 gallon community tank that got 1 20-25% water change monthly. The silver in the discus tank grew to be an 1-1/2 longer than the other.
So I gave one away and have been growing mine out in a 75 g he is now 11-12 inches and is getting moved to a 125g afther the Xmas tree comes down (it is currently in the spot for my temp 120 gallon tank. With my aro getting a 250 gallon by the end of the summer. Cool thing is I have the wife convinced that the 250 tank will be eventually to small for him so I got the ok for a monster tank in the basement. This one I'll have to build next winter but should be 10' long x 4' wide x 3' high I think this would give me about 800 gallons, Wow I can't wait.
I learn something about water quality though, In the month span I had on in a 55 gallon discus tank which received 2 30 -40% water changes a week. The other was in a larger 85 gallon community tank that got 1 20-25% water change monthly. The silver in the discus tank grew to be an 1-1/2 longer than the other.
So I gave one away and have been growing mine out in a 75 g he is now 11-12 inches and is getting moved to a 125g afther the Xmas tree comes down (it is currently in the spot for my temp 120 gallon tank. With my aro getting a 250 gallon by the end of the summer. Cool thing is I have the wife convinced that the 250 tank will be eventually to small for him so I got the ok for a monster tank in the basement. This one I'll have to build next winter but should be 10' long x 4' wide x 3' high I think this would give me about 800 gallons, Wow I can't wait.
quix;593028; said:tried both for aro community..dark background and no background..fight goes on just the same..it probably won't work much in most cases..lucky u
I agree.
Maybe just changing the background in general has somthing to do with it i think the sudden change will stun or disorient them somehow but ether way this is a interesting topic.
I doubt that it has anything to do with the background. I would say they just got over it and stopped fighting
I doubt very much that it has anything to do with the background.
I think it is just coincidence that in the time period that you changed your background, the arowanas ceased their fighting and cohabitated (that happens a lot, especially with age and growth).
It is said that dark backgrounds remove visual from the outside, and hence there is less to distract the fish from one another. Well consider this the Amazon River does not have glass sides with much viewing
I think it is just coincidence that in the time period that you changed your background, the arowanas ceased their fighting and cohabitated (that happens a lot, especially with age and growth).
It is said that dark backgrounds remove visual from the outside, and hence there is less to distract the fish from one another. Well consider this the Amazon River does not have glass sides with much viewing
Who says amazonian arowanas are peacefull? I am not argueing that this the cure-all for hostility. I am not even argueing that this will work on all tanks. However, this was not my imagination. At the time they were going after each other constantly. At any givin time you'd walk into the room you would be there no more than 2-3 minutes before you would see an act of aggression (thats pretty hostile if you consider that they aren't waiting for me to arrive to behave this way). At exactly the time when the background came off, it STOPPED! Totally and completely. I did not see any aggression between them for a couple months. I am seeing more of it now and am thinking of putting the background back on (lol), but you never know. I have no idea what it was that caused them to TOTALLY stop the fighting for months, perhaps it wasn't the color. Maybe it was just the new scenery. Who knows. I am only telling you that somehow, someway, it DID make a differance.....for a while.
Of course arowanas are 'aggressive' by nature, but they will accept each other.
In the wild, you do not get one dominant aro in the area.
In fact if you have seen the 'Andes to Amazon' series, there are a few clips of silver aros sharing an open spot very peacefully. I just fail to see how the background change could affect any of this; if i am wrong knock me down.
When the background was changed, were ornaments or plants moved as well? It is possible that 'stumping ground' were lost due to the change?
In the wild, you do not get one dominant aro in the area.
In fact if you have seen the 'Andes to Amazon' series, there are a few clips of silver aros sharing an open spot very peacefully. I just fail to see how the background change could affect any of this; if i am wrong knock me down.
When the background was changed, were ornaments or plants moved as well? It is possible that 'stumping ground' were lost due to the change?
I think it's possible that the background has a noticable effect on their aggression. I had a few small cichlids in a 20 gallon and I put a mirror on one side and the dominant one didn't bother the others for a while. but of course that's a mirror. but it was fun watching him show off to himself!
