Ok, so
Q1: how does one rekindle the typical arowana rage-attack feeding reflex? Garlic? Red candles in a circle? Thirteen drops of lamb's blood?
She's moved to the windowsill, now with drip, pre-rooted pothos & bubbler +30% water change up-front and a big pinch of sea-salt. She'll take a vibrating moth grudgingly, but these guppies seem pretty safe & seem to know it. Thoughts?
Q2: She's little so not notably cramped, but doing glass-press-swim thing - thoughts? Simply unhappy, cramped, back-lit (indirect), terrified of mystery-snails, has a serious/murderous hate for me personally or something else?
The other is easy & angry & fat (normal), having added best-part of 2cm since arrival. I can/will remove mountain-mullet from the "busy" tonight* & relocate the this aro in the AM. Then move the beleaguered to the 55 with a few dozen guppies & crossed fingers. So much f&$@king drama...
...and here we find
Q3: Will this be excessive relocation stress? Better to leave her to
get her act together where she is, without angelfish competition for the tiny guppies? She's healing & doesn't seem to be losing condition, just not eating (much/enough). She seemed to arrive "hangry" but lost it with the bullying &/or failed attacks on too-big dragonfly nymphs. A confidence issue? Life-coaching meditation & some plucky affirmational Facebook memes?
* the mullet are brilliant manic fun but start getting territorial with a little size (IE soon/now). Dip-net a few 1"ers, grow to 5~6" then start again, though not this time.
Note: I have no idea if these arowanas are male or female, they're little with ventral fins still long & luxuriant.
