Hello All!
I work for a company here in the city that maintains tanks for buisnesses and one of my clients is Mr Walter Chan, who's the owner of the Smitty's restaurants and a few other buisnesses. Long story short, for Chineese newyear he gave me a baby silver arowana because he knows I love his fish and had been wanting one for sometime.
Anyways, the fish is about 3.5 inches long and currently in a 25 gallon long tank, shallow gravel bottom, a 30 gallon filter and kept at a steady 77*F. All readings are where they should be.
This is what I was told to feed it:
-Freeze dried or frozen blood worms
-Crickets of appropriate size
-Floating carnivore pellets
-Feeder guppies
He hasn't eaten a whole lot, maybe 6 crickets and some bloodworms, and I've had him for just over a week. Today I added 10 feeder guppies after keeping them in a seperate tank for a week. He hasn't really touched those, but his belly seems to be nice and full:
Today I noticed him just kinda doping around with his back end lower than the rest of him....is this a good thing or a bad thing? Is his diet to blame?
thanks in advance, and sorry for the poor pictures
Randi
I work for a company here in the city that maintains tanks for buisnesses and one of my clients is Mr Walter Chan, who's the owner of the Smitty's restaurants and a few other buisnesses. Long story short, for Chineese newyear he gave me a baby silver arowana because he knows I love his fish and had been wanting one for sometime.
Anyways, the fish is about 3.5 inches long and currently in a 25 gallon long tank, shallow gravel bottom, a 30 gallon filter and kept at a steady 77*F. All readings are where they should be.
This is what I was told to feed it:
-Freeze dried or frozen blood worms
-Crickets of appropriate size
-Floating carnivore pellets
-Feeder guppies
He hasn't eaten a whole lot, maybe 6 crickets and some bloodworms, and I've had him for just over a week. Today I added 10 feeder guppies after keeping them in a seperate tank for a week. He hasn't really touched those, but his belly seems to be nice and full:
Today I noticed him just kinda doping around with his back end lower than the rest of him....is this a good thing or a bad thing? Is his diet to blame?
thanks in advance, and sorry for the poor pictures
Randi
Personally I think it would be best if you don't feed it feeder fish until it gets bigger, much bigger. Reason? He's still young and is very lenient with his diet atm. However, if you keep giving him feeders as a big part of his diet, he might not accept other prepared foods when he gets older and feeder fish aren't exactly the best food in the world for it. For now, flakes should be his main diet and slowly work him up to floating carnivore pellets as he gets bigger. These foods are more nutritious for him and will help his growth. Then when he's big enough, you can work the crickets and worms into his diet as well. Also at this stage, be VERY careful of what you feed him. Food that is hard to digest, mainly shelled food like shrimp, may damage his intestines and might cause internal injuries. Good luck with your new Arowana and hope to see some more pictures of him in the future!