Silver aro advise from long term owners please?

[Yanbbrox]

Long story short, some of you may have read this before, got a small silver, over a year ago, as the right price came up, almost had to sell him as he out growed his tiny grow out tank as the extension was being built, then the tank was delayed but he went in and all was happy.

After a couple of weeks all was well, eating like the seagulls in finding nemo, mine mine mine mine.

Over the last month he stopped eating(tank running for about 9 months now). We didn't noticed this and went to do the weekly water change and the tank stank, really bad, plenty of rotting uneaten food in the gravel so a big clean was needed. This was a month or so ago, since then he's been really weird, he will only eat on occasion, he will swim around you for a minute and take food like a baby very gently but with little or no interest.

All the normal checks have been done and all is ok, so my question is to long term aro owners: what's up? do they do this? please share your experiences?

 

[strollo22]

I've heard of aros not eating sometimes. Have you tried offering a different kind of food?


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[Miguel]

Is it otherwise acting normal, ie. weirdness restricted to eating?

If so leave it be. Let it fast for a week.

 

[ska_kid]

try new foods

 

[Miguel]

try new foods

Let it fast.

One only changes foods when feeding is well established. If not it can be worse.

 

[Yanbbrox]

I've heard of aros not eating sometimes. Have you tried offering a different kind of food?


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Is it otherwise acting normal, ie. weirdness restricted to eating?

If so leave it be. Let it fast for a week.

try new foods

Let it fast.

One only changes foods when feeding is well established. If not it can be worse.

We tried fasting same behavior, other wise acting normal?

 

[strollo22]

Let it fast.

One only changes foods when feeding is well established. If not it can be worse.

The Aro was a well established eater up until about a month ago. Why wouldn't you just try to coax it with different food. It already hasn't eaten in a month, why prolong it?

 

[dr_sudz]

how does the fish look? are the fins tucked in close to the body, or is the belly shrinking?

 

[Miguel]

Aros get tired of food and fast.

Depending on size, if it is otherwise, normal, one month is not unheard of.

I had a 2 foot Ck a couple of years ago that went for 6 months without one gram of food.

 

[strollo22]

Aros get tired of food and fast.

Depending on size, if it is otherwise, normal, one month is not unheard of.

I had a 2 foot Ck a couple of years ago that went for 6 months without one gram of food.

Ok thank you. I wasn't discrediting what you were saying, I was just trying to learn. Appreciate the response man.