If you want to feed crickets, be sure to remove the legs as this is usually uneaten
and will just pollute your tank.
and will just pollute your tank.
feeding young arowanas
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I have 3 baby slivers arowanas and one of them ate the guppy i use to cycle my tank with and now it wont anything else except guppies.
I try starving it for 2 days but looking at the flat stomach hurts my heart.
I dont have the heart to starve it.
The other 2 i fed are growing fast and the 1 that only eat guppies is very small.
My advice to all is dont feed ur aros LIVING stuff early in their days.
Rollerboy~~~~
I have a leichardti with real red fins. Ive kept many leichardti b4 and kept them on the same diet and this is the only one with nice red fins... so I think its just the luck of the draw as to what the quality of the fish is.
I have a leichardti with real red fins. Ive kept many leichardti b4 and kept them on the same diet and this is the only one with nice red fins... so I think its just the luck of the draw as to what the quality of the fish is.
Hey Rollerboy...
I suppose you could try feeding the leichardti with carotene rich food...stuff like prawns. Plus, many people feed their arowanas with worms and crickets which they have pumped up with carrots prior to enhance the colour, maybe try that?
I have heard that the fish also adapts to the background colour to an extent, so a darker background may make the fish's colour more intense as it grows?
I suppose you could try feeding the leichardti with carotene rich food...stuff like prawns. Plus, many people feed their arowanas with worms and crickets which they have pumped up with carrots prior to enhance the colour, maybe try that?
I have heard that the fish also adapts to the background colour to an extent, so a darker background may make the fish's colour more intense as it grows?
I really enjoy watching my predators chase and eat live meat. It makes me smile to see them so enthusiastic about food.
I do still feed pellets to them, but only once in a while.
The key to having your arowana to eating a huge variety of food is to introduce it to them from a young age. Now mine eats centipedes, frogs, fishes, meat, pellets, crickets, superworms, etc.
But do continue to feed them pellets before you feed the live food to make sure they remember that pellets are still to be eaten. Else they get addicted to live food and you gotta starve them.
For small arowanas, I don't recommend you starve them to get them to eat pellets.
Once they reach 6" or so, you can starve them so that they will accept pellets. I won't worry about them not eating for more than a couple of weak. They ain't as weak as you think. But it will be up to each individual to judge if the starving should carry on. Observe the fish. Although fishes can be starved for some time, do remember that once past a certain limit, they won't eat even if you throw in feeders, so don't overdo on the starving part.
I do still feed pellets to them, but only once in a while.
The key to having your arowana to eating a huge variety of food is to introduce it to them from a young age. Now mine eats centipedes, frogs, fishes, meat, pellets, crickets, superworms, etc.
But do continue to feed them pellets before you feed the live food to make sure they remember that pellets are still to be eaten. Else they get addicted to live food and you gotta starve them.
For small arowanas, I don't recommend you starve them to get them to eat pellets.
Once they reach 6" or so, you can starve them so that they will accept pellets. I won't worry about them not eating for more than a couple of weak. They ain't as weak as you think. But it will be up to each individual to judge if the starving should carry on. Observe the fish. Although fishes can be starved for some time, do remember that once past a certain limit, they won't eat even if you throw in feeders, so don't overdo on the starving part.
If I feed crickets to anything I dust them with mineral supplement first, it is cheap and can't hurt.redtailfool said:
mine is still young but when i first got my silver arowana i grew him on frozen bloodworms. Now, i'm feeding him feeder mollys. PLanning to continue the frozen bloodworms and maybe start on krill soon...
