Missing Aro

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sbrodacz

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I put a baby 3-4" Aro in my tank this morning. He's missing! THe tank is covered really well so I don't think he was able to jump out. I don't have the back of the stand covered so I was able to look behind the tank and all around. He's not in the sump either. I looked inside the overflow as best as I can. I have a screen on the overflow as well so it'd be a tight fight for him. I have two 5" rays so I don't think they ate him. I have no decorations so he couldn't hide.
 
Did you ever consider that he could be eaten by the rays? You do any research in the matter of keeping a baby arowana with rays?
 
hmm maybe he died and the ray ate them haha.. i dink a baby arrow can fit in a 5" ray mouth =/
 
Well he might have got eaten but just check around :)
arowana can be clever,And sometimes you end up finding them on the floor even though you have a tight fitted cover
 
I wouldn't put it past your rays to eat the aro, i have one ray that's around the 10" mark and she thinks nuthing about pinning my severums to the bottom and they're 5+ inches.. I think a 3-4" aro would be a quick snack.. I hope you find your aro though..
 
I' sorry but my friend has rays around the size of yours...and they ate fish bigger than what your aro was! I'm sorry! :(
 
Did you ever consider that he could be eaten by the rays? You do any research in the matter of keeping a baby arowana with rays?
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I did consider that. I was told a 5" ray could not eat a 4" aro. Their mouths are too small.

xmurder, i checked everywhere. All around the tank and stand and even in the stand. I checked behind dressers as well as under the bed. I think I'm going to get a 6" aro. Do you guys think that'll be ok? Or should I go larger?
 
sbrodacz;3551349; said:
I did consider that. I was told a 5" ray could not eat a 4" aro. Their mouths are too small. I wonder is the person that supplied this information considered that a small 4" aro would be about the same as 2 or 3 small feeder goldfish end to end? I know nobody would tell you that a ray could not eat a 2" goldfish, right? So if the goldfish would fit in the rays mouth then why not the back half of the aro?

xmurder, i checked everywhere. All around the tank and stand and even in the stand. I checked behind dressers as well as under the bed. I think I'm going to get a 6" aro. Do you guys think that'll be ok? Or should I go larger?
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Looks as if you were told wrong, maybe an actual thread on that question would be a good idea.

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with rays and what size fish they can devourer. I do though have enough experience raising aros that the follow advise holds true.

Baby aros should be kept solitary until the 5-6" range and then should only be kept with a select few none aggressive tankmates until in the 11-12" range.
 
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