How do you get your arowana the nutritions it needs?

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drgnfrc13 said:
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.
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Thanks for the information, I'll try to do this then. Its just that i don't want it to have drop eye and maintain in a good health.
 
Bderick67 said:
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.
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Yea I kind of noticed that it was a pretty bad idea after doing it. My cousin insisted on me trying it because he has one that he had done to it before.
 
Hey T... will start working on your advice... ive been feeding my 7" silver aro with red shrimps cut into bite size which he accepts readily but the problem is if he misses them the first time it drops then he wont even go near it and my RTC have a feast of it :D... is that aros only eat their food when its on top....? i have a 2" jardini as well very active and skittish too... but accepts shrimps readily but it has no problem from eating from the bottom.... im actually confused with this behavior.... any advice will be helpfull... thx
 
Tworner54 said:
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
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Missed the quote.... :)
 
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