Is it normal for Asian Arowana to stop eating?

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my jar is currently in a hunger strike.
rtg last 2 to 3 weeks was on one but started to go for food and ate today!!

the only aro i have that hasnt ever gone on one and is the biggest eater is the 1.5 red. this guy will eat so much!!!
 
classic-chassis;3143705; said:
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.
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My SR eat one pellet the next it completely crushes and then spits out the debris and it proceeds to do that to all the floating sticks. BB tastes them then immediately spits out. Lousy asian aros =P X-back used to eat them not anymore.

classic-chassis;3143705; said:
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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Be careful. If he gets desperate enough, he might just try to his detriment. Imo, three things can happen:

1. He eats loach with no side effects
2. He chockes to death on loach (my NTT choked on the piece of shelled prawn)
3. He eats loach and damages something inside (airbladder) then starts swiming funny i.e. diagonally. my green did that with a frog that was not meant for him - after swallowing the frog he tilted downwards (i took it for being full), he never straightened out

Good luck
 
Try meal worms. All of my asian aros accept those without delay. may be they get too attached to them.
 
Just feed it, 8 super worms, like normal it's a pig when it wants to be.
The last week or so has seen some change to the tank. One big fish out, 6 CLs in, more planted bog wood, complete bottom substrate change and flat rock caves for the CLs. It was probably adjusting to the new surroundings.
I don't know why but it didn't like frogs, maybe because the bones are harder and earlier on when I did give it feeders it left them alone. Having asked people with experience the loaches are too big for it and too fast, they also have lots of places to hide. The RTG isn’t interested in them, even when it’s on the bottom and they’re nibbling near it.
Funnily enough when it's eating super worms and expels matter from it's gills the CLs go mental. From reading the CL threads they should get too big pretty quick. My RTG is now about 14in and over a year old so it'll slow down growth wise. The CLs are about 2in so they should grow pretty quickly over the next few months. I’m not really trying to starve it to eat pellets, I just thought it might like a change or was bored. I’ll keep throwing a few in though, what the RTG doesn’t eat the CLs will.
 
Frustrating - my 1.5 red eats like a pig, my jar is just coming off its hunger strike, it wont eat the thick part of MS, it will eat the tail end witht he mot shell.

but my rtg, eats one whole shrimp a day
i want it to eat more and pig out
How can i make my RTG eat more?
 
My RTG is the same regarding MS, if it has to chew to big body parts it plays with it until it's shreds and spits it out.
I've stopped feeding it MS because I read about chemicals being added in farmed shrimp to make them look more appetizing for us. When you cook them the chemicals cook out.
I don't know how true it is. this leaves me with super worms and crickets though so i want it to have a 3rd food source. I tried chicken, it didn't eat it.
I may try a bit of raw squid, or shell fish (without the shells of course.)
Regarding fattening them up some one wrote frogs, but i think they're doggy unless its a big fish.
 
Henward, frustrating is the word man, yesterday it wouldn't eat anything!!!
 
well, i suggest stop feeding any live food
when i fed my jardinii live food, it didnt eat for 3 weeks or more~ only stated eating lst few days! shrimp.

my 1.5 red is not picky at all, eats all but pellets, but will eat pellets with a tiny piece of shrimp sttached to it though.

my RTG eats only once a day, 1 shrimp a day, but will eat live food after the 1 shriimp, i just dont like to make a habit out of it, it might get too attached, so i feed mealworms every 2 to 3 days in the evening when its full ish and wont touch shrimp. just to give it extra food and protein. i breed mealworms.
 
ctoychik;3144139; said:
My SR eat one pellet the next it completely crushes and then spits out the debris and it proceeds to do that to all the floating sticks. BB tastes them then immediately spits out. Lousy asian aros =P X-back used to eat them not anymore.



Be careful. If he gets desperate enough, he might just try to his detriment. Imo, three things can happen:

1. He eats loach with no side effects
2. He chockes to death on loach (my NTT choked on the piece of shelled prawn)
3. He eats loach and damages something inside (airbladder) then starts swiming funny i.e. diagonally. my green did that with a frog that was not meant for him - after swallowing the frog he tilted downwards (i took it for being full), he never straightened out

Good luck
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I have brought this thread back on topic because something very strange has happened. Since my last batch of super worm ran out I've been trying other foods like fish and squid but to no avail, ( i have not been able to get to the market to buy crickets. My aro usually ate MS in the past so I bought some fresh yesterday and threw in a soft piece for it, I thought it would be very hungry after not eating properly for a week or so, It didn't go for it.
As I've written already, when i was feeding it the last of the super worms it was eating very few or even leaving them, so i was putting in the odd stick just in case it went for them.
Last night after watching it refuse MS, I put 8 sticks in and left the Aro alone.
I went back to the tank after about 15 min and all the sticks had gone.
It has decided to eat them, why i don't know.
The 6 loaches are already getting bigger and are all over the tank.
As a juvi it would not eat for a week even when offered sticks, now it just seems to have turned to them which has made me very happy, and the loaches safer.
 
my jardinii did that briefly and went off it.
strange,
but generally, i find cooked shelled shrimp stuffed with pellets is the ideal food. gets them big and fat quickly in my opinion. i find insencts to be low in protein.

shrimp is generally 15% protein but high in b carotene. If yous tuff iwth with massivore, even if you feed them 2 to 4 massivore plus a whole shrimp, thats plenty of protein avail for them.
fish has only a lil bit more protein than shrimp.
massivore and aro sticks are generally 50% protein
 
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