Help my baby silver arrowana

[dudey]

So I have bought two baby silver arrowanas about threee weeks ago. They were tiny, just barely absorbed egg sac. One I think has started eaten (havent actually seen him eat) but he looks healthy, healthy fins, swims actively throughout the tank (55 by themselves until they grow and then 125 then who knows).

Anyways the other one looks very skinny and fins looked almost shredded. The healthy one I noticed yesterday had been picking on him a little so I separated them. Well last night the weaker one started swimming on its side, upside, twisting in a downward spiral. At one point I thought he was dead, he was on the bottom of the tank tail down, head up not moving.

Well I decided I would try and force feed him. I pulled him out of the tank, and opened his mouth and put flakes down it and put him back in the water. A lot came out but he did swallow some. So I did it again. Put him back and decided to let time tell.

Today he is swimming around, not as much as the other one but at least he is swimming .

Now what the hell do I feed them. He still wont touch flakes, small pellets, frozen blood worms, dried blood worms, live brine shrimp, or chucks of frozen shrimp.

Should I run to the store and try and get some small feeder guppies...

sorry for the long post, but what do you feed baby silvers

 

[Cichla dude]

krill my small silver loves that

 

[I<3fish]

So I have bought two baby silver arrowanas about threee weeks ago. They were tiny, just barely absorbed egg sac. One I think has started eaten (havent actually seen him eat) but he looks healthy, healthy fins, swims actively throughout the tank (55 by themselves until they grow and then 125 then who knows).

Anyways the other one looks very skinny and fins looked almost shredded. The healthy one I noticed yesterday had been picking on him a little so I separated them. Well last night the weaker one started swimming on its side, upside, twisting in a downward spiral. At one point I thought he was dead, he was on the bottom of the tank tail down, head up not moving.

Well I decided I would try and force feed him. I pulled him out of the tank, and opened his mouth and put flakes down it and put him back in the water. A lot came out but he did swallow some. So I did it again. Put him back and decided to let time tell.

Today he is swimming around, not as much as the other one but at least he is swimming .

Now what the hell do I feed them. He still wont touch flakes, small pellets, frozen blood worms, dried blood worms, live brine shrimp, or chucks of frozen shrimp.

Should I run to the store and try and get some small feeder guppies...

sorry for the long post, but what do you feed baby silvers

Get some pinhead crickets. My 6" er goes head over tails for em...

 

[Cypher]

Try to get them on bloodworms for now. At that age krill/shrimp might be a bit tough for them.

 

[Bderick67]

Freeze dried blood worms and a quality flake food are your best bet at this size. Well I guess I don't have to tell you about the low odds of successfully keeping two arowana together. Have you separate them? Something else you can do to make baby aros more comfortable is to add some floating plastic plants.

As for your weak baby, it is probably too stressed to eat. Do what you can to make it feel at ease. If it is going to eat at all it will take the blood worms.

 

[dudey]

Freeze dried blood worms and a quality flake food are your best bet at this size. Well I guess I don't have to tell you about the low odds of successfully keeping two arowana together. Have you separate them? Something else you can do to make baby aros more comfortable is to add some floating plastic plants.

As for your weak baby, it is probably too stressed to eat. Do what you can to make it feel at ease. If it is going to eat at all it will take the blood worms.

I did seperate them after I had to force feed him.

I went to the lfs to get some feeder guppies today (I gave in) and I came back and the weak one was swimming around fine.

I threw the guppies in and they both ate some. I thought I might be able to put them together again, once I did the bullied became the bully and wouldn't leave the other alone...

at least their eating now

 

[Sonsinator]

Once the bullied baby silver regains it strength then it will be the time to practice them on flakes or pellets.