Drop eye

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TheCanuck

TheCanuck

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So i have a really healthy arowana. Though i worry for drop eye. He is on a frozen krill diet with pellets. I would like to toss him silver sides etc. I know feeders are the main cause of drop but could krill or market shrimp do this as well? If you overdid the shrimp feedings? I would like to know what exactly gets an arowana drop eye. If you feed to many meal worms or crickets? Should he always be steady on the arowana sticks?

Does anyone feed theirs strickly massivore?
 
Do a search. There's a thousand threads just like this. There is no definite answer. I can say I have watched it happen immediately from head trauma. Mines 30" and only had one eye dropped until recently. Now both :(
 
What you feed may or may not be a reason for DE. What you need to do is feed the most varied and nutritional diet that you can in order to have a healthy aro. Most likely you will not be able to control DE with diet, many have tried and eventually failed.
Austin;3900507; said:
Do a search. There's a thousand threads just

like this. There is no definite answer. I can say I have watched it happen immediately from head trauma. Mines 30" and only had one eye dropped until recently. Now both :(
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You, myself and many others here on MFK have experienced this. Yet many more will argue against that this could possibly be a reason. :screwy:
 
Feeder is not really the cause to DE.... Sometime the wrong placement of the light set will cause this too.
 
I think this may be related. I used to feed my home-raised feeders to my jar. But I stopped doing that recently because feeders tend to stay near tank walls or the top when I drop them in the tank, and thus, the jar almost always hit the tank when he goes after the feeders with a strong force. It spooked me a couple of time from watching it. Don't want him to have head damage nor loose barbels because of this.
 
Koji;3901221; said:
Feeder is not really the cause to DE.... Sometime the wrong placement of the light set will cause this too.
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This is true. Too bright and too much lighting can cause DE as well as it makes your Aros look down alot. As for feeding feeders it can cause DE but I wouldn't worry about DE more then feeders transfering parasites and deseases. In my experiences feeding my Aros feeders 2 out of 3 of my teenage Aros caught DE at a young age. 2 of them caught it at 14" but I fed feeders only for a short period of time. Those 2 are almost 19"-20" now and my smallest Aro@17" has not caught DE yet. I feed them Lake smelts, market prawns, silversides, Hikari food sticks and massivores.
 
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