Food problem

[Pratosh]

I have an silver arowana for about a month now..the problem is that it is not taking any food besides feeders..Please suggest what should I give him . I m afraid that he might get a dropeye

 

[tlindsey]

Have you tried Carnivore sticks made by Hikari my Aro couldn't resist them. You may have to skip a day before you try feeding anything else.

 

[Pratosh]

Let's try

 

[Ade]

Let's try

You will need to be really patient . Very unlikely to happen quickly.
I got My xb at 11 inch, and it ate hikari sticks from day one and every day for 8 months. Then after feeding raw schrimp for 2 days. It went off Sticks completely and didn't touch them for 6 weeks. It ate frozen prawns and fish like crazy when I tried just to see if it was a health issue with him not eating sticks.... But he gobbled up the frozen food quickly when I tried it 3 times in the 6 week period.
Then after 6 weeks it started to take the sticks again but chewing and spitting out. Then another week of only Sticks and its now eating them.properly.like before.
Fussy fish.

 

[Pratosh]

Hmm..gonna be real tough ..I m feeding him my fh's red sumo..he tries to gooble it but once it is inside it comes out again.

 

[johnnytaboo]

Might be easier to transition from live to raw shrimp or tilapia. If you can get him on pellets though, that's probably best for the long term.Whenever I was breaking my fish off live, slivers of tilapia (cut to look like small fish) worked best. I didn't have much luck with silversides, and I'm not sure why. I feed all my fish shrimp and tilapia, just cut to different sizes for different fish, but if I could just throw a handful of pellets in at night, it would be a lot easier.

 

[jwh]

Live crickets and Hikari foodsticks/ Jumbo Carnisticks have never let me down. Whilst crickets are live food, it get the aro to start taking food from the surface, where the Hikari comes in.

 

[D-RIG]

+ 1 on the crickets and then throw in a few Carnisticks to float
arround with the crickets sometimes the Aro will eat the stick
bait and not even realize it . It's a start .

Freeze dried blood worms are good to my Aro loves them .

 

[KIdfish]

i feed my jardinis raw shrimp from the market. i cut it up into small pieces and feed it to them. it take a while. if your silver arowana is scared or shy mostly it wont eat or will only eat a little. i feed mine raw market shrimps once a day.