Happy holidays all,
I haven't been in the hobby long but one of the fish that attracted me to the hobby was arowana's.
Anyways, the lfs had a whole heap of juveniles (around 2 inches) of the saratoga - leichardti so i grabbed one.
Placed it into my 10 foot tank which has a bunch of cichlids which are now still only 2.5-3 inches (oscar, salvini JD's, and a larger maybe 4 inch vieja synspilum but he is not aggressive).
The day I put him in there he looked and swam exactly like i expected along the top of the tank, but next day, nowhere to be seen, and I did never find anything.
There is a lid covering the tank but I know he could have possibly threaded the eye of a needle to jump through a couple gaps but looked everywhere around the tank, outside & in but nothing.
Anyways next day, I put some juvenile blue acara into the same tank and within two hours one of them had their head taken off. Don't know which one did it but now I think this is what happened to the arowana as that was only about the size of this blue acara.
What do you think?
I would still like to get one but would have to grow it out some in a separate tank and introduce it later when its big enough not to be attacked.
Anyone else had this experience?
I haven't been in the hobby long but one of the fish that attracted me to the hobby was arowana's.
Anyways, the lfs had a whole heap of juveniles (around 2 inches) of the saratoga - leichardti so i grabbed one.
Placed it into my 10 foot tank which has a bunch of cichlids which are now still only 2.5-3 inches (oscar, salvini JD's, and a larger maybe 4 inch vieja synspilum but he is not aggressive).
The day I put him in there he looked and swam exactly like i expected along the top of the tank, but next day, nowhere to be seen, and I did never find anything.
There is a lid covering the tank but I know he could have possibly threaded the eye of a needle to jump through a couple gaps but looked everywhere around the tank, outside & in but nothing.
Anyways next day, I put some juvenile blue acara into the same tank and within two hours one of them had their head taken off. Don't know which one did it but now I think this is what happened to the arowana as that was only about the size of this blue acara.
What do you think?
I would still like to get one but would have to grow it out some in a separate tank and introduce it later when its big enough not to be attacked.
Anyone else had this experience?
