4 days ago i added 2 baby silver arowanas each about 5-6" in my 180 gal tank. But for the last 2 days i noticed my one silver arowana is chasing other and if he get the other then he bites other.Where as the other is always trying to escape from that attacker.And it causes some loss of fins of that victim.I am feeding them guppys and both are eating though the attacker is eating much more than the other. I want to know why he is behaving like this & what i need to do now?
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arowanas usually cannot be kept in pairs, some however are lucky and have pairs in their tanks
and do not keep feeding them guppies try pellets or, shrimp, or some other food, unless the live food you are feeding is quarantined in advance and has been stuffed with good food
and do not keep feeding them guppies try pellets or, shrimp, or some other food, unless the live food you are feeding is quarantined in advance and has been stuffed with good food
Thanks for your answer. But now what i am suppose to do? Remove one arowana from my tank? But this will result only one baby arowana in my 180 gal tank. Is there any other solution available? Can i keep any other fishes with that baby arowana?
What happened to all of u guys? Please reply. It's very urgent. I want 2 keep both. Not just one in my 180g tank. By d way, the local shop keeper told me to partition my tank. Will this help & in future can i keep them altogether by removing that partition?
much better to have a single aro or 6 or more...
they will most likely beat each other up still.
you can keep other fish with aros no problem.
best to have non-aggressive fish that arent big enough to eat the aro.
they will most likely beat each other up still.
you can keep other fish with aros no problem.
best to have non-aggressive fish that arent big enough to eat the aro.
partitioning the tank is the best way right now if you want 2 aros in 1 tank. wait till they grow past the fragile stage and reintro them together to see what happens.
I use to keep a 5" jar and silver together. The jar nipped at the silver for about a week then he stopped and they lived peaceful together after that for about six months until i sold them. I would keep them together but you must keep the water clean and keep them full. I wouldn't recommend feeding live foods either due to aggressiveness and disease. I noticed feeding the jar live crickets made him more agressive so i switched to chopped-up market shrimp.
I agree with the above, put more aros that may solve the problem of hostilities (apparently 3 upwards is a rule of thumb in the hobby) temporarily and then you will have more problems in the future as you will have possibly too many in one tank.
Use separator until both get bigger (if you tank is not with weird custom dimensions then these should be readiliy availalbe in LFS) - though this is also not a long term solution cos then you will have each aro living in 90 gal.
Both of the solutions will require you to get more tanks in the future (the MFK way!!!)
Good luck
Use separator until both get bigger (if you tank is not with weird custom dimensions then these should be readiliy availalbe in LFS) - though this is also not a long term solution cos then you will have each aro living in 90 gal.
Both of the solutions will require you to get more tanks in the future (the MFK way!!!)
Good luck