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brettrotchell

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i picked up a new Aro today he was so pritty i could not say no . had to have him . anyway the pet store i got him at was feeding him crickets and they said they have tryed to feed him HIKARI aro sticks and he will not take them .my smaller aro eats them no problem , BUT there is no way my wife will let me bring crickets home or let them in the house what can i feed him and how do i convert him to aro sticks ??

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Same thing people always say on here, A healthy fish will not starve itself to death. If you keep offering hikari aro sticks, it will eventually eat them. May take a few days or a couple weeks. But you have to stick it out and keep offering what you want without giving in and feeding him crickets or feeders if you want him to eat the sticks. I have never had to do it, but that is what I read that works. Good luck.
 
If you're very worried about his hunger strike, you can try training him onto aro sticks while feeding him crickets that can't get loose. Pick up a can of air-dried crickets from the reptile food section.
To train the aro, drop a cricket, then drop an aro stick. Always drop in the same spot so the aro will associate that spot of the tank as the buffet table. The aro will catch on to the idea that the sticks are food in a short time.
 
Offer him some freeze dried krill. Mine took that the day they came home. Another thing to try when he gets bigger is frozen raw market shrimp. They are cheap, and good for him. Mine have never eaten the hikari floating sticks, but the love AZOO 9 in 1 arowana pellets. I would offer a wide variety in the long run, but for right now, just start trying to offer him one type of food.
 
THANKS FOR THE QUICK RESPONSE i was worried about that i will try to just feed aro sticks for a week or so and see what happens . but you guys are probably right he should not starve him self.Air dried crickets that is a great idea . if i cant get him to take just the aro sticks after a week or so i will try that cricket trick .

thanks
 
garlic extract also induces feeding (at least thats what people say)
 
Allot of times to add to other responses is that a fish will seee food as food when another fish is eating it :) And possibly start eating thesame as well... And as stated above .. Try the krill.. That seems to be one of the easier taken foods :)
 
Gr8KarmaSF;554543; said:
garlic extract also induces feeding (at least thats what people say)
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Yeah I tried that ... but mine made the whole apartment smell of garlic :eek:
 
agreed with Ewalk...once your arro gets hungry enough, he will eat them. a healthy fish will not starve itself to death, so, don't worry about that.

trying to 'train' the arro to eat the arro sticks in counjution with other foods will only delay the process. if your arro is getting other food while being 'trained' it will eat the other food and ignore the arro sticks, as it is doing now
 
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