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picked this beauty up 2 day! :D im wondering what i could put in there with him/her! was thinking of putting a ray in with it but suggestions would be great :) sorry about the pic quality as he wouldnt stay still for me,it is already feeding on hikari sticks and loving them! :headbang2

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Rays are nice but expensive. I always wanted some but they're illegal here in California, and I'm a goody goody law biding type of guy (with fish at least, haha). There's a countless number of possibilities to go with though. Just make sure whatever you add isn't more aggressive than the arowana or he might get picked at. Silvers can be pretty mean at times though, you have to play it by ear and see what your fish is going to be like. I've kept mine with peacock bass, bichirs, datnoids, all sorts of cat fish, leopard ctenopomas, clown loaches, ect.

Just research what you want to put in there before you buy it. Some fish grow at extremely different paces, such as clown loaches which grow really slowly. If you got some small loaches now, chances are the silver would out grow them and one day may look at them as a food source. I've had that problem before, fish lived together for over a year and then one day decided he was large enough to start eating my shoal of loaches.
 
Aesop;3477335; said:
Rays are nice but expensive. I always wanted some but they're illegal here in California, and I'm a goody goody law biding type of guy (with fish at least, haha). There's a countless number of possibilities to go with though. Just make sure whatever you add isn't more aggressive than the arowana or he might get picked at. Silvers can be pretty mean at times though, you have to play it by ear and see what your fish is going to be like. I've kept mine with peacock bass, bichirs, datnoids, all sorts of cat fish, leopard ctenopomas, clown loaches, ect.

Just research what you want to put in there before you buy it. Some fish grow at extremely different paces, such as clown loaches which grow really slowly. If you got some small loaches now, chances are the silver would out grow them and one day may look at them as a food source. I've had that problem before, fish lived together for over a year and then one day decided he was large enough to start eating my shoal of loaches.
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when i picked him/her up today it was in a tank with another silver aro and it had no tail!,this one i have here had bitten the whole back end of this fish of!,i no they can be very aggresive to their own kind and espessialy in pairs,so i think ive made my mind up with the aggresion part of things!.
as for what you said about rays being expensive,i made a few phone calls today and the cheapest i could get a 4 inch motoro ray for was £160:WHOA: i think ill do what you said and really think and reserch this. at the momment this aro is 4 to 5 inches.

thnx for the info matty :D
 
that is a GREAT looking baby! keep him/her alive and you'll have a stunner!
 
a quick question,my new aro has been eating great today but about an hour ago he/her regurgitated a pellet can any 1 tell me what this is all about thnx!
 
Aesop;3477467; said:
Could be that he just ate too much. Pellets tend to expand in size as they are saturated with water. He most likely ate his limit and spit out a little bit extra. Try feeding him a little bit less next time you give him the pellets.
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thanks for the info:D
 
dont get tankmates til its 6"+ and get bichirs,gars,datnoids,rays but only get rays,gars if u got big tank
 
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