My 15 inch arowana "Brahma" never seems to get full. Anytime I even get near the tank he comes right up to me begging for more food. This being said, I don't really know exactly how much food to feed him anymore before its just too much. He eats Hikari floating pellets once in the morning and once in the afternoon and two or three crickets at night as a treat. How many pellets should a 15 inch arowana really be eating in a day?
How much food is too much food?
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the quantity she wants to eat 'till she stops. You have to watch and see how much she eats in a go.
Miguel;2245274; said:
Yep, feed until refusal. Then remove the left over (say 10minutes). Don't worry aros are not known for their gluttony. It does not eat, puke then eat again.
its all about experiance, the more you feed it the more you will understand its limits.
also depending on your water temp, the higher the temp the quicker the food goes through the body, meaning more hungry aro. also more waste is produced, so keep ya eye on the nitrate if you are power feeding.
also depending on your water temp, the higher the temp the quicker the food goes through the body, meaning more hungry aro. also more waste is produced, so keep ya eye on the nitrate if you are power feeding.
I look at the size of the fish, and the amount of food I am feeding. I kinda get a rough estimate of what would be enough for a fish this way. I will feed and watch the fish, if I see a lump in the belly I know they have enough. Even though they may beg, you have to sometimes ration the food and not let the fish non stop eat.
My fish does the same all the time, but looking at its size and the volume of food I fed it, plus looking at how full the belly looks, I kinda judge on that.
My fish does the same all the time, but looking at its size and the volume of food I fed it, plus looking at how full the belly looks, I kinda judge on that.
Strange .............. even I am feding hikari pellets to my jardini and he never seems to be full. Maybe Hikari is having some formula where he feels more hungry 
This was not the case when I was feeding him Azoo pellets. Maybe Hikari is tasty......
What I do is keep feeding him in small quantities till the time he stops taking interest in the floating pellets.
This was not the case when I was feeding him Azoo pellets. Maybe Hikari is tasty......What I do is keep feeding him in small quantities till the time he stops taking interest in the floating pellets.
Yes, hikari is
my jardinii never eats anything or goes for anything but shrimps and live food! one day i put cichlid gold after months of training, he goes for it! and eats 18 at once!
then next day the same, thenb more and more, untill i realised its too expensive lol so i went back to the prawns and stuff it with some pellets at times.
hers my opinion, i have a 15 incher jardinii.
it eats 3 massive prawns a day - with the shell! its belly looks like it will pop.
to be honest, hikari pellets will pass through the animal so quickly, because they are designed to break down and have the maximum sirface area for reaction in the stomace, and max absorption - over all good food!! but! your aro will ALWAYS FEEL HUNGRY!
probably how they make money, good food, fast growth, great colour and health and always hungry..
lets me real here, why do we have fish
well i think there are two reasons, to grow them and see colours and WATCH THEM EAT!! lol
so we keep feeding, more food gone into the tank, more purchases!!
i suggest you stop feeding crickets so often, crickets go through them quickly too! if you are feeding hikari, then crickets are a over kill.
i suggest what you do is this
give a few pellets for its vitamins. Then at night feed it cheap frozen prawns untill it stops eating.
then do the same next day.
once a week, feed it some crickets. nothing else just crickets for the entire day.
give it some variety in digestion and stuff.
also, prawns shell help it heal damages scales more and broken tails and stuff i was told by an arowana breeder in singapore.
my jardinii never eats anything or goes for anything but shrimps and live food! one day i put cichlid gold after months of training, he goes for it! and eats 18 at once!
then next day the same, thenb more and more, untill i realised its too expensive lol so i went back to the prawns and stuff it with some pellets at times.
hers my opinion, i have a 15 incher jardinii.
it eats 3 massive prawns a day - with the shell! its belly looks like it will pop.
to be honest, hikari pellets will pass through the animal so quickly, because they are designed to break down and have the maximum sirface area for reaction in the stomace, and max absorption - over all good food!! but! your aro will ALWAYS FEEL HUNGRY!
probably how they make money, good food, fast growth, great colour and health and always hungry..
lets me real here, why do we have fish
well i think there are two reasons, to grow them and see colours and WATCH THEM EAT!! lol
so we keep feeding, more food gone into the tank, more purchases!!
i suggest you stop feeding crickets so often, crickets go through them quickly too! if you are feeding hikari, then crickets are a over kill.
i suggest what you do is this
give a few pellets for its vitamins. Then at night feed it cheap frozen prawns untill it stops eating.
then do the same next day.
once a week, feed it some crickets. nothing else just crickets for the entire day.
give it some variety in digestion and stuff.
also, prawns shell help it heal damages scales more and broken tails and stuff i was told by an arowana breeder in singapore.
^ make sure you take off the tail, read "possible arowana killer" in the stickies.
Mine is off live feeders and on market shrimp, which i'm not too happy about because of chemicals in the uncooked shrimp.
It's only 8 or 9" long so it eats about one full de-shelled shrimp a day. about four or five mouthfulls. I tried sticking hikari pellets in shrimp, it get to them while chewing then spits it out. It'll keep going back for a sniff but won't pick it up.
As for taking un-eaten food out when it refuses. i left 2 small pieces of shimp in it's tank last night and they're gone this morning. It took them off the bottom.
As someone said above, i'm looking a the mass of the fish and the bulge in it's belly. when they're small they can only handdle so much food. 3 to 5 mouthfulls per sitting i recon for my fish.
Mine is off live feeders and on market shrimp, which i'm not too happy about because of chemicals in the uncooked shrimp.
It's only 8 or 9" long so it eats about one full de-shelled shrimp a day. about four or five mouthfulls. I tried sticking hikari pellets in shrimp, it get to them while chewing then spits it out. It'll keep going back for a sniff but won't pick it up.
As for taking un-eaten food out when it refuses. i left 2 small pieces of shimp in it's tank last night and they're gone this morning. It took them off the bottom.
As someone said above, i'm looking a the mass of the fish and the bulge in it's belly. when they're small they can only handdle so much food. 3 to 5 mouthfulls per sitting i recon for my fish.
Thanks for the advice guys. The reason I started this thread was because it just seemed impossible that feeding my arowana until he loses interest in the pellets was healthy for him, but thats what I have always done. The advice I've always given to people keeping smaller tropical fish has been that the fishes stomache is about the size of its eyeball, so use that as a guide. That guide simply doesn't work for my arowana, I mean he eats probably twenty to thirty times that in a siingle sitting.
3 percent of body weight a day is fine. my fish is an adult but it ate about ten x 10-12 cm koi feeders in the past five days and its guts is fat like it ate a hamburger but im not worried. only if your filter or change rate is no good. im thinking they might like yabbies but might give them without the claws. you could always make up your own sticks from all the stuff you know would be a good diet, then freeze em.. and make sure you thaw them right out..you only need to smash some stuff up a bit to get it to stick. think that once youve eaten too much you dont feel well so gauge when hes one mouthful from stopping. if fish easily died from eating more than they should then a lot of them would die right? its more about keeping the water ok for that much food.