Educating MFK on the Silver Arowana (REVISED)
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I'm guessing the reason they are always looking down is for food. I would bet some money that in their natural habitat they are consuming worms etc. I would say they look down because they are on the lookout for an easy meal not their reflection or at tankmates. When I get 200 bucks for an aro I'll test it out lol so that will be never. Someone else should try something to see though.
Question for the aro keepers. I want to move mine temporarily into a tank to grow our before putting him with the bigger guys. How will an eight inch silver do with two senegals, five and eight inch, two angels and a nine to ten inch BGK? Really like this guy and am trying to make as few mistakes as possible.
Hi guys,See please understand that human's view is different from a fishes view.All fishes have a membrane on top of their eyes and it is concave unlike humans,also arowanas have eyeballs that rotate unlike other fishes and they have a concave membrane over their eyes.Other fishes have vision side ways and if they have to look at the bottom of the tank they have to turn themselves unlike arowana where they can move their eyes downwards to see what is at the bottom,since there is a concave membrane over the fishes eyes they do provide reflection on a bare bottom tank for an arowana that a normal human eye cannot see as there is a concave membrane between the botoom of the tank and the arowana's eyes.Every experiments on reflection in physics is conducted using a concave lens like the membrane in the fish's eyes.Ever heard of Drop eye in arowana's in natural hbitat or ponds?cos there is no cause for reflection as in a bare bottom tank.there could be only 2 reasons for Arowanas in captive getting Drop Eye
1) due to injury in banging themselves on the cover of the aquarium which occurs mostly in one eye
2) Due to BARE BOTTOM tanks and concave membrane ina fish's eye which protects their eye from water and also mind it is not fully transparent as they are concave and little thick like acrylic glasses.
AGAIN PLEASE TRY TO UNDERSTAND THAT A FISH'S VISION IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM OUR VISION.
1) due to injury in banging themselves on the cover of the aquarium which occurs mostly in one eye
2) Due to BARE BOTTOM tanks and concave membrane ina fish's eye which protects their eye from water and also mind it is not fully transparent as they are concave and little thick like acrylic glasses.
AGAIN PLEASE TRY TO UNDERSTAND THAT A FISH'S VISION IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM OUR VISION.
sorry guys convex is where the centre bulges out and corners are insid like the shape of fish's eye and fishes have convex membrane that produce reflection and concave mirrors or lens create refraction
I have a quick question, I have a 75 gal tank that has one gar in it. But I was wondering can I keep a 3inch arowana in a 29 gal aquarium until it gets bigger? I always wanted one but I was afraid if I put it in with the gar it would be dinner... and my last question is. Are arowanas considered fast growing fish??
i have a 6-7 inch arowana, and this really helped, thanks! was just wondering for any serious food tips, going away for two weeks, and only owned him for two weeks, he seems to have stopped eating today, whether thats due to not being hungry or something else, he ate alot yesterday so i am not worried, so thanks for the post!
