How do you get your arowana the nutritions it needs?
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There are no "monster fish". Arowanas are high active animals. They hunt active on the water surface. Many Arowanas have massive problems with their eyes in captivity. Feeding such an active predator with pellets isn´t doing good as well. Do you call that "properly housing"?
I wonder how successful you are in reproducing the Amazon for the anaconda. Mr. Kettle, please meet the pot.
Wait until it is a couple inches larger, then try again, for longer than 7 days if necessary.
For mine, I got it at the same size as yours, fed it krill until it was about 7" long, then starved it until it accepted pellets (which took about 2 and a half weeks), just fed it pellets for a few months, then started feeding it a combination of pellets and krill until it was about 22-23" long, and since then I have been feeding it tilapia fillets cut into half-dollar sized pieces three times a week, and pellets on the days that it doesn't get tilapia.
I'm not going to claim to be "properly housing" mine, as I have learned the hard way in the past year that a 225 gallon is not an ideal size for such a powerful and unpredictable fish, but I will say that you are wrong. First of all, the "massive problem" you are referring to is entirely cosmetic in most cases; DE does not have any affect on the arowana's health or its ability to "hunt" normally. And considering the nutritional value of pellets compared to many live or frozen foods, I don't see how anyone could effectively defend your argument.
Massive problems? O... Ok, FYI not all arows in captivity get de and even if they do they still act the same and eat, and no fish that we keep in tanks will never be in a big enough tank no matter how big of a setup you have, properly housing is giving your fish a better sized tank then 75 % of people that would of bought them if someone who has some knowledge about them didn't, a lot of people will put them in a tank and expect them not to grow, a month ago I saw a guy on Craigslist giving away a 15 inch arowana that was in a 10 gallon tank up to that point in its life, my point is if they sell them people are going to buy them and id rather see people that buy them "properly house" them rather than seeing the fish suffer in smaller tanks and eventually die because the owner thought they could stun his growth or something like that
Sorry to disturb your thread but from my own experience I had to feed my arowana blood worms for a while before it actually ate the pellets it didn't physically fully chew and eat the pellet until it was around 8 inches, mine always had a tough time breaking it up in its mouth because its jaw/mouth wasn't strong enough, id say feed it freeze dried blood worms, and try softer foods like frozen silversides,krill,shrimp those worked for me and my arow and those are a lot more filling then bloodworms, for a good variety of food go to your local grocery store and see if they have a frozen variety bag of seafood that's what I've been buying now and its got a bunch of good stuff in it shrimp,squid,clams,octopus,mussels, and its only like 5 bucks, keep us updated on what it accepts and what it doesn't, good luck
I would have to disagree about DE not affecting the arowana's ability to hunt or take food. This is only after watching one of my large silvers(DE both eyes) not even being able to see pellets floating on the surface and struggling to take whole shrimp dropped right in front of her.
BTW not a good idea to "starve" an arowana that is only 4-5" long.
BTW not a good idea to "starve" an arowana that is only 4-5" long.
So your saying they arent suitable to be in an aquarium, are you suggesting that its better to be in our belly. Like serious whats wrong with you? they are active enough to be in an aquarium that is big enough for them to roam around also and being fed instead of being starved out in the water. Plus its not only listen in the "monster fish" it is also listed as an "Ancient Fish" if you weren't looking carefully enough.
