So here is the situation. I recieved my silver arow the other day from a buddy who had it in a 50 gal tank for about 2years?. He gave it to me so i can throw him in my 180 gal tank. Now this arow is about 23-25 inches. He told me when it got big it was struggling to live in the small tank "DUH".
The first night i had him he was already in bad shape, kind of tilting a bit staying at the bottom a lot. I tossed some stress coat with him and now hes doing a bit fine.
Sometimes i see him just chilling at the bottom but then like a few hours later hes like in a vertical position with his mouth on the surface.
Its been 2 days and I'v tried feeding him raw shrimp as i did with my past arows but this guy just doesn't eat. Also tried crickets/pellets and nothing, my buddy told me he fed the arow a few mice b4 and fed him raw meat. Now after he told me that I was pretty sure this arow was not gonna eat anything but raw meat and mice. Now I am stressing myself. He is still doing those veritcal dips sometimes.
What to do MFK folks? I dont want this fish to die because of my newbie buddy.
The first night i had him he was already in bad shape, kind of tilting a bit staying at the bottom a lot. I tossed some stress coat with him and now hes doing a bit fine.
Sometimes i see him just chilling at the bottom but then like a few hours later hes like in a vertical position with his mouth on the surface.
Its been 2 days and I'v tried feeding him raw shrimp as i did with my past arows but this guy just doesn't eat. Also tried crickets/pellets and nothing, my buddy told me he fed the arow a few mice b4 and fed him raw meat. Now after he told me that I was pretty sure this arow was not gonna eat anything but raw meat and mice. Now I am stressing myself. He is still doing those veritcal dips sometimes.
What to do MFK folks? I dont want this fish to die because of my newbie buddy.
