My Leichardti Growout
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Chizzle, try this instead. Theres no need to crush the pellets and no need to starve him either.
Your fish is probably eating bloodworms. Thaw a couple cubes of bw in a cup (or run water over them to speed it up) then put some of the melted bw on top of the pellet. Drop the pellet with the melted bw on top into the tank and your fish will swallow all of it bc all he sees are the bloodworms. Keep doing this and gradually decrease the amount of bw until you put none on top.
This teaches your fish to recognize pellets (and things you drop into the tank) as food and gets them used to the taste of pellets. I use massivore pieces bc it smells the strongest and makes fish grow fast ime. Plus its color is similar to bw so they can't distinguish it and makes it more likely they'll swallow all of it.
If you crush the pellets and mix with bw and pour it in, the fish is likely to just pick out the worms and leave the pellets alone. Don't need to starve them because I always use this method and its safer and faster than starving.
Your fish is probably eating bloodworms. Thaw a couple cubes of bw in a cup (or run water over them to speed it up) then put some of the melted bw on top of the pellet. Drop the pellet with the melted bw on top into the tank and your fish will swallow all of it bc all he sees are the bloodworms. Keep doing this and gradually decrease the amount of bw until you put none on top.
This teaches your fish to recognize pellets (and things you drop into the tank) as food and gets them used to the taste of pellets. I use massivore pieces bc it smells the strongest and makes fish grow fast ime. Plus its color is similar to bw so they can't distinguish it and makes it more likely they'll swallow all of it.
If you crush the pellets and mix with bw and pour it in, the fish is likely to just pick out the worms and leave the pellets alone. Don't need to starve them because I always use this method and its safer and faster than starving.
Arowanas are really easy once they are already established, if you have been feeding your guy for a couple weeks now he's probably use to the feeding schedule just start throwing in pellets and I'm sure a couple of days he'll break
Damn, all of your methods will make the tank water very messy im a heart beat.
But they do work. I been mixing my pellets with baby superworms and throwing it in the tank together. Finally my aro began to realize that pellets were food also. Plus having other tank mates that eats pellets too was a plus.
Thank god it takes pellets now. So much cleaner and makes life so much easier than to deal with live worms or frozen foods on regular basis. Trust me on this one. Now sw or frozen foods are treats
Just dont give in!
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But they do work. I been mixing my pellets with baby superworms and throwing it in the tank together. Finally my aro began to realize that pellets were food also. Plus having other tank mates that eats pellets too was a plus.
Thank god it takes pellets now. So much cleaner and makes life so much easier than to deal with live worms or frozen foods on regular basis. Trust me on this one. Now sw or frozen foods are treats
Just dont give in!
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Not really. If you put melted blood worms on a pellet, the worms will stay stuck to the pellet and he eats the whole thing.
I am just going to make this my black arowana trio growout thread as well since the liechardti is in the same tank with the blacks. All three blacks are 16-17" long. Leichardti is most likely 8-9" now that i paid more attention.
I never knew there was another species of arowanas that was similar to the asian arowana and jardini arowana. btw your black aros look great
