FEEDING PROBLEM! Dumb Aro & Cat

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eternity302

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Hey guys, I think i stated this out before! These two are driving me nuts! I recently purchased an arowana, he's about 4 inch or a lil more! very small guy! he stopped eating though! at the beginning, I fed him freeze dried hikari krill! he would be able to eat 3 a day =) so I ran out of krills one day and I remember I have some food that I never tried, so i open the omega one krill, broke it in half cuz it wuz to big, and there we go, he put it in his mouth and spit it back out and will not eat that again! So i tried top fin krill this time, did not even bother putting it in his house! So i tried blood worms, frozen live krill, cichlid gold, arowana pellets, EVERYTHING! he's on his 4th day not eating and he looks skinny! he's still happily swimming around! and btw, he just got some new tankmates, two severum that is 1/10 his size! and they aren't even bothering him! Should i starve him until he eats? or buy that dang hikari krill that he likes?

Second guy is a raphael catfish! it's been the third day! he moves a little now when I turn off the lights, but NOPE he ain't eating, tried different algae flakes, krills, and frozen live krills! NOTHING WORKS! Should I just move him to a small tank on it's own for now?

I am getting frustrated by these two! :( I kinda wish they were oscars now.. at least they eat anything!
 
The arowana will probably come around, just keep offering him whichever food you would like to continue to feed him on a long term basis. Fish can safely go on hunger strikes for many weeks but will eventually eat the food they are offered.

As for the raphael cat, they eat anything. They are nocturnal, but from what i've seen, they just sleep constantly unless they smell food AND they are hungry. My spotted raphael loves hikari sinking carnivore pellets especially.
 
I luv to try meal worms and crikets =) but am too disgusted to keep them in my house!

As for the carnivore sinking pellets, will pick that up right away!

As for the arowana, will he starve himself to death?
 
i agree, try some crickets they usually will break any hunger strike from small aro's, just feed the crickets something nutritious first because they don't have much to them. dangling night crawlers at the top of the water worked for me too, and as for the catfish being he's nocturnal i would't worry to much. i've had one of those over a year now and never once have seen it eat. lol but it's always got a fat belly on it. i just toss some shrimp pellets in every 2-3days at night with the lights off for all my cats.
 
Whether you want crickets in your house or not, just buy them and try feeding them to the arowana, because if it refuses that too, I'd start worrying about internal parasites.
 
Cichlaholics Anonymous;2381697; said:
Whether you want crickets in your house or not, just buy them and try feeding them to the arowana, because if it refuses that too, I'd start worrying about internal parasites.
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i agree completely, if it refuses crickets after a few tries something is wrong besides it's tastes in food.
 
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