How do i make my aro eat more - pig out?

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henward

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ok, i have a 15 red, that thing eats like a starved maniac, i mean will eat about 3 to 4 shrimp a day stuffed with massvore delite, its 15 to maybe 6 inch.

but i have an RTG, 14inch, int he morning it will eat a whole shrimp stuffed with pellets, then i feed it again, cos it still responds to my hand, BUT, i takes the shrimp, same shrimp and bites it, then drop sit.
then it circles it as if it wants it, whil the other fishare pcking on it
but it doesnt go for it.

but i know it can still eat.

How can i make arowanas eat more?
or i it just individual fish, some are piggish some are not?

reason is that i want the fisht o get reall big and thick and fat fast.
 
May be nothing you can do. My black aro never has had a big appetite, no matter what food is offered. Even when I feed here crickets, which she seems to love, she will stop eating after 8 to 12 of them even though there are many more floating.

BTW this is probably why she has been such a slow grower. Only 8 to 9" in 26 months, she is now just pushing 20".
 
Change it's diet Henward. Even though you know I'm having problems with my Asian arowana now, but in the earlier days it would eat well all the time and grew quickly. I rotated foods and it seemed to work. I think Asians get bored if you feed them the same all the time. I don't know about Silvers or Blacks but i've read it would be normal for an Asian over a year old to go weeks without food if it needed to in the wild. That means we a always trying to over feed them. Change it's food for a while, at first it might turn its nose up to begin with, mine did when i first gave it crickets, but after it ate one it changed it's ways. If i feed it chrickets for too long (usually every time i buy them because i buy enough to last a few weeks.) it starts to turn its nose up at them. Then is switch to super worms and do the same for 2 or 3 weeks. Now as you know i'm having problems with Super worms.
 
I agree a change in diet and maybe raise the temp. When I went from 26c to 27.5c my silver ate alot more. I also change food from breakfast lunch and dinner, he gets either raw shrimp, superworms, mealworm bettles, good pellets, earthworms, salmon, pike, whatever good foods I have. I try to keep it as varied as possible
 
try giving it Bullfrogs injected with arowana vitamins, it would make your fish fat, alot of asian arowana owners do that esp if their specimen has a sign of a spoonhead feature.
 
Henward, an idea for you. Last night my aro ate more than normally. I stopped showing it my hand and threw the food in through the sliding door on the hood.
The splash of the food caught it's attention every time.
 
i am tying my aro on pellets again
this time i will be stronger:d

the RTG is hungry
goes for the massivore pellets no worries but spits it out
so, i tried cutting a tiny piece of shrimp and mushing it onto the massivore on one side, first try it takes 2 pellets , spits out the 2 that came after
3 hours later, tried it again, took the first oneand spat out 2 after.

i will ust do two at a time from now on, eventually it wil get hungry enough as it knows it will get nothing else, and will take it every time, then i will slowly reduce the amount of shrimp as i go along.

today it has had 3 massivore pellets. at least its getting its nutrients still.

my 1.5 red took 2 as well, but hes full cos i gave him 3 shrimp already
wll try it with my 3 aros, jar, 1.5 and rtg.

decidd pellets contain more goodness, shrimp is only 14 percent protein. in theory, 2 massivore pellets should contain same amount of protein and more goodness than a small to medium sized shrimp.
 
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