Silver arowana not eating

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I recently bought a baby silver arowana. it eats frozen blood worms fine. I dont wont to feed it too much blood worms because i dont want it to develop drop eye. I went to the pet store and bought a flake reccomended for arowana but it spits it out. What should i do ?
 
If it’s a recent purhase then will settle in soon. Wait it out and should eat. Provide some floating plants and dim light to help it settle.
 
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Turn off the lights and keep giving it bloodworms, then slowly introduce flakes with the bloodworms over the next few weeks.
 
They always take bugs, appropriate size obviously.
All tank kept silvers get drop eye... Except for some reason albino and platinum seem less susceptible. If you don't want drop eye get him in a pond, failing that keep your water level well away from the bracing and maybe pad the bracing with foam and cover three sides of the tank to avoid him getting startled.
I'm a firm believer that head trauma coupled with a week head are the cause, I believe the 'fat' they cut from behind the eye is actually scar tissue.
That's just my opinion after reading many many threads on multiple forums.
Although black aro look similar they are a different species and I believe must have a slightly different make up in their head making them less susceptible.
Again just speculation but it's a fact that very few pond kept get drop eye but all aquarium kept silvers do!? What's different, the bracing and hard clear walls....
 
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Usually at 16-18" it's likely drop eye will start.
 
Can you elaborate a bit more please. What do you feed, how big and old are they. Any pics, where do you keep them, what size tank, how far away is your tank bracing from water level.
Are they wild caught, do they have tank mates?

I've kept 3 silvers, none ever had live food and all got drop eye.
 
Very interesting...

I am far from an expert but I do believe that DO is probably very related to them jumping and bashing their heads...
I somehow don't think live food is an influencing factor... they eat mainly live food in the wild?

AQUASLY AQUASLY .. I have never seen an aro eat flakes.. if you mean pellets, you can try soaking the pellets for a little in the bloodworm juices and see if it helps
I have never managed to get mine on pellets... probably my fault... Im not too good at starving them.... but from small she took pieces of fish or prawn as well
 
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