Is it normal for Asian Arowana to stop eating?

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Fire Eel
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Is it normal for Asian Arowana to stop eating for a few days at a time?
It's about 14in and usually eats MS, Crickets and super worms on rotation.
I have made a substrate change a 2 weeks ago and it did eat after I did the substrate change. My usual 50% water change with aged water is the same.
over a month ago I tried small frogs, it ate 2 then wasn't bothered with them at all, so i went back to the rotation. It also went of MS and only eats one or 2 pieces at most. I was thinking maybe a bone or skull is stuck in its gut but since then it has pigged out now and again.
Before it would eat 8 to 10 super worms, or 4 or 5 big crickets, but it seems to have gone off them.
I have been putting sticks it because i figured it might be getting bored, they float and I've never seen it eat them, but I'm wondering if it's taking them when they're soft, full of water nad i'm not looking.
It also rests on the bottom a lot but Miguel told me that was normal.
Water parameters are all good. A fish that used to hassle my Asian Arowana has gone, and a school of loaches are in with it now. It doesn't cash them, in fact when its on the bottom they swim round it. It has a look at them when they dance but doesn't go for them at all.
Is this normal behavior for an Asian of this size?
 
some aros go on a hunger strikes for weeks maybe it just cant digest em
 
It is not unusual for aro (any) to go on hunger strikes for couple of days. Happens to mines as well (though not often with silvers or jar). I have never seen my asian aros "pig out" on any thing (red is the biggest eater) though i have not tried live fish with them (i suspect that they would take live fish). They do seem to like mealworms the most. My asian aro do seem to be quite fickle eaters.

My x-back likes to sit at the bottom during the day but eats normally and swims normally at night. the solution for getting it to swim again is (apparently according to some) addition of current to the bottom (powerhead) - i have not tried this yet but i will during my next visit.
 
Aro go on Hunger strikes is normal especially u did some changes to its enviroment, mine was on hunger strikes for 2 month when I change to a bigger tank. Aro are known to go on hunger strikes so U do not have to worry.
 
It ate last night but only a few worms, and it played with them (as they do).
I am still putting about 4 or 5 sticks in every day, I can only see 1 or 2 after about 6 hours, even scanning the bottom. The clown loaches could be eating them but they get fed very well because they're only 2 to 3 inches. i have a feeling my RTG has started to eat sticks. I need to see it though to be sure.
Water changes have been the same for almost a year already, it usually eats straight after a water change, but i'll give it a go.
 
it took me a week of starving my RTG to get it on sticks, hopefully your dragon will soon be accepting them as well :)
 
If I starve it, it may go for the loaches, they're probably a little too big right now but if it's hungry enough who knows!
 
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