Difficulty getting arowana to eat in community

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trashcan

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Hi,

I have a tiny silver arowana in my community aquarium. He's pretty active swimming around the top, and seems to enjoy eating frozen blood worms. BUT, he doesn't seems interested in the cube, he only eats one or two blood worms at a time. I try to drop it right by him, but sometimes this scares him and he swims away. My other strategy is to feed pellets to distract everyone else and give him more time, but he still will only have 30 seconds or so.

I think he only gets 3-4 blood worms a day. I've also tried putting in frozen krill, and thats the same situation but worse because less of it floats. So my problem is that I don't think he's getting a lot of food.

Does anyone have any suggestions? My next idea is to put him in a smaller aquarium by himself until he gets a little bigger and a bit more aggressive. I have only had this fish since last Friday, and he ate on Sunday for the first time.

I've attached some pics, do you think he looks too skinny?

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hes too small to be in a community tank right now..put him in a separate tank for now till he grows to about 6"-8". this will be the best for him i guess.and continue feeding him on blood worms.
 
silver aros should be kept by themselves until 5 to 6 inch range. Select tankmate are ok up to 10". Feed it freeze dried blood worms, they love them and they stay afloat for a long while. You can also feed flake food or soft pellets.
 
I bought some small crickets from a lfs, and he ate all of them. He seemed to really enjoy them. The lfs also showed me that he feeds theirs frozen bloodworms and floating hikari cichlid staple (!!). Hopefully I can get mine on the same diet.
 
Once he gets to about 6-7" you can train him to eat frozen market shrimp and a variety of other foods. Definitely by 10" though
 
dont have to worry,my 6" jar was smallest aro in my aro comm it couldnt eat when it got hungry it stole food from the big guys 17",20" freaken funny and yours is pretty small but not skinny so separate it for 2-3 month or so
 
I tried the hikari cichlid staple (floating) and he ate that too! I thought I had read that it was hard to get arowanas onto pellets? Maybe that was just jardini?
 
i dnt know man but i get all my aro'z to eat pellets no problem maybe i bin lucky, also i find when i first get them if they are picky the first week little crickets always gets there attention and they go crazy for them
 
i say seperate him for about 2 months or so. When I first got my aro which is now about 17", he was only about 4". I had mosquito fish in there for him to eat, but every now and then, even the mosquito fish would snip at his tail and stress him out.
 
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