Im a newb...

[Kingmacho]

Whats up everyone? I just found this site and looks like it could be one of my new homes. I am already on a lot of forums, this will be my first fish one though!!! All the rest are car forums...

Anyway..

I recently bought a Jardini Arowana. I absolutely love this fish! He is a ****ing monster. I bought him (or her) when it was about 3-4 inches long. He is now starting to hit the 6in mark.

His diet is crickets and blood worms. My question to you is: How do I get him to start eating pellets? I have bought some specially made for top feeding fish and he will put it in his mouth, and spit it right back. Is it cause he has been eating live food? Or does he just not like them?

Thanks for all the help!

Off now to browse the rest of the forum!

 

[KMKN]

starve him a bit and he will eat the pellets

 

[Hao]

dont feed him crickets often like once every 2 week as a treat is fine because youll get him addicted and he wont eat anything else and yea starve him then few days later try feeding him pellets

 

[sbuse]

my silver did the same with the pellets like allready stated starve of a few days it will eat them. btw welcome

 

[Westie]

Mine loves the hikuri. Hates everything else.

 

[David R]

His diet is crickets and blood worms. My question to you is: How do I get him to start eating pellets?

Stop feeding him crickets and bloodworms.

 

[bdevilcasey]

Welcome. Once again, starve him for about 3 days. That should do it.

 

[ward1066]

mine hates pellets too. I have mine eating freeze dried krill, eventually I will get over to pellet.

 

[classic-chassis]

dont feed him crickets often like once every 2 week as a treat is fine because youll get him addicted and he wont eat anything else and yea starve him then few days later try feeding him pellets

I have to disagree to some degree with this idea, not all aros get "addicted" to food types.
I've read "super worms are addictive", and also in the last few days "crickets are addictive", on more than one occasion.
Maybe I own a strange aro but I feed it crickets for about 2 to 3 weeks at a time and towards the end it gets very bored of them and stops eating them. I then switch to super worms and do the same, after about 2 weeks its bored and wont eat them. It just bites them and plays with what's left, as it does with the crickets.
I then feed it market shrimp, as with other foods it loves it for the fist few days but then after a week or so it gets bored again and plays with it.
One thing it will not eat is pellets. I believe if I did get it on pellets it would only be out of desperation on the fishes behalf, and it would only eat them or die. As soon as other food was introduced i recon I'd have to start starving it again before it accepted pellets again.