Ok so I have a 10" silver arrow that won't eat pellets but when I was cleaning a little 5g I put a Molly in a baby net in the arrows tank so he was in a cycled tank for about an hour instead of a bucket and my arrow when nuts biting at the net the whole 9 yards what's the deal with this behavior I'm a first time arrow owner and don't know how to correct this
My dence headed silver arrow
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Sounds like the aro was trying to eat the molly. Probably a bad idea to put small live fish in a net and dangle it in front of a hungry arowana. The aro was just doing what any predator would do.
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Yeah def trying to eat the molly anything they can fit in there mouth is considered food to them
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"help my predatory fish tried eating a smaller fish!!!" 
Sorry mate, it's what they do, you're not going to be able to correct anything.
Sorry mate, it's what they do, you're not going to be able to correct anything.
+1 if you don't want to see the nasty side of them don't put anything small enough to fit in their mouth with them
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If he won't eat pellets yet feed him prawn (shrimp) and muscles for now and keep trying the pellets
Aro's are predatory fish that will eat anything that fits in there mouths a molly wouldn't even touch the sides of a 10" silver
Aro's are predatory fish that will eat anything that fits in there mouths a molly wouldn't even touch the sides of a 10" silver
"help my predatory fish tried eating a smaller fish!!!"
Sorry mate, it's what they do, you're not going to be able to correct anything.
No I'm not surprised he did I'm just saying why won't he eat the pellets but he goes after the fish?
You can't correct that behavior it would be like trying to train a wild lion to live happily with a bunch of gazelles it just doesn't work like that sorry man if you want a less aggressive fish I suggest non predatory species
Fish are a natural diet to them pellets aren't that's why. Pellets aren't living or breathing which = no predatory drive it tasked a while to get silvers on pellets however I haven had too much trouble with mine just don't feed him anything else but pellets he won't eat them the first few days so put them in there let them sit in there for a while and take them out if he dosent eat them eventually he will realize that that's all he is getting and he will eat it just takes time at 10 inches he should be ok without eating for 4 or so days
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Fish are a natural diet to them pellets aren't that's why. Pellets aren't living or breathing which = no predatory drive it tasked a while to get silvers on pellets however I haven had too much trouble with mine just don't feed him anything else but pellets he won't eat them the first few days so put them in there let them sit in there for a while and take them out if he dosent eat them eventually he will realize that that's all he is getting and he will eat it just takes time at 10 inches he should be ok without eating for 4 or so days
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Not what I'm trying to say..... I'm just trying to figure out what I should try differently to get him to eat like other food options