Premium 24k golden head Arowana 8 inches not eating

[Gaurav_Anjarlekar]

Hi Experts,

Need your advice,
I have bought Premium 24k Golden head Crossback Arowana (certified chip scanned with certificate) on 9th Sept and he is not eating anything till today.

I had kept him with my silver Arowana who was same sized and they were biting each other and hence kept them seperately now .
But still my Golden Arowana is not eating anything. I tired prawans and sticks and even feeding fishes but still not eating anything.
My tank size is 2ft by 10".

Please suggest.

Regards,
GAURAV A

 

[sikoko]

Does it have any tankmates, it also needs at least 8'x3' tank to live comfortably. I would assume you had them both in what amounts to a 30 gallon. Stress can be a hell of a thing for an arowana, it can cause jumping and spooking and not eating.

 

[Gaurav_Anjarlekar]

Now both are seperated and golden arowana is single in the tank and is swimming through the tank nicely but not eating. And it's a 70 Liters tank

 

[Gaurav_Anjarlekar]

Attaching pics of my tank and fish

 

[sikoko]

Yea that's just under twenty gallons and is really stressful on the fish. That would be like living in your bathroom for you. But you might want to try a bigger aquarium or waiting until it's ready to eat

 

[tlindsey]

Give time remember you recently moved it to another aquarium. Also probably was stressed from getting picked on.

 

[Gaurav_Anjarlekar]

No I mean to say I removed silver Arowana form this tank who was 8-9 inches and silver was happily eating and swimming till date even now after moving to a same sized tank.
Infact silver is one inch bigger that my Golden aro.

 

[tlindsey]

No I mean to say I removed silver Arowana form this tank who was 8-9 inches and silver was happily eating and swimming till date even now after moving to a same sized tank.
Infact silver is one inch bigger that my Golden aro.

Ok I get it but the Golden Aro still was stressed until you removed the Silver. Give time to start eating again.

 

[Gaurav_Anjarlekar]

Any idea within how many days Golden Aro will start eating ...I bit worried .
Looking at the image I shared please suggest if he looks healthy apart from stress.

 

[islandguy11]

Any idea within how many days Golden Aro will start eating ...I bit worried .
Looking at the image I shared please suggest if he looks healthy apart from stress.

Really no one here can predict when it'll start eating -- when put in a new tank some will eat right away, some may take days, maybe even a week. But besides being stressed it's a beautiful fish and looks to be otherwise healthy.

I would reiterate like others you'll (very) soon be needing a larger tank, it's likely to grow about 1" a month and that small of a tank will just stress it out, good chance it'll try to jump out if given the chance. Monster fish deserve monster tanks

One more thing insofar as not eating -- you might consider to lower the level of your air bubbles & surface agitation -- yes it's good to have some air/bubbles but it looks a bit much for that size tank: your Aro might prefer a calmer surface, esp. at feeding time, just experiment and see if it's a factor or not.