My Aro won't eat fish

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DanDanUK

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I have just bought 6 1.5" Serpae tetras and they have been in my tank all day but my 9" Aro won't eat them he gets down low and close to look at them but then he swims off again !?????

Any ideas ?

I have been feeding him on a variaty of foods i have made up a Bloodworm & Prawn Champ also feed him blood worms and prawn on there own, Crickets, Krill Pellets but live fish he won't touch ????

I'm Baffled !!!
 
Well, I have heard of AROs seeing some fish as tank mates...Mine will eat gold fish, only if they are orange, he sees them as food, any other color of goldfish...he won't touch. I would not be too worried about this, in a way its good...Who knows, he may just get a little hungry one day, and gobble them up! The food you are feeding him sounds really good to begin with...Just stick with that for now!

Jen
 
yeah i wouldn't worry to much
about it. my 24 inch won't eat my cichlid fry :screwy:
he doesn't even bother small fish in my tank.
 
I have a pair of Golden Severums and they are a male and a female and they do look like they will bread together at some point they have all the tell tail signs of a breeding pair they dig together and are always swimming side by side the male often chased any other fish away from the female.

So my question is when they breed will there fry be ok in the tank with my Arowana, Tinfoil Barb, Fire Eel and the Serpae tetras if they don't get eaten ?
 
You may have a problem with the eel eating your fry...How big do the Serpae tetras get?
 
Then they should not eat your fry...Just make sure you have lots of cover for them to hide in...like some spawning grass, or hair grass...
Jen
 
jenBLKAROWANA said:
Then they should not eat your fry...Just make sure you have lots of cover for them to hide in...like some spawning grass, or hair grass...
Jen
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A mop made of regular synthetic yarn works, too.
 
Dun mix the breeding pair with other fishes....coz you'll have headache when they start to breed.....
 
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