Hi ,
Long time lurker first time poster. I recently took the plunge into asian arowana. I purchased a juvenile blood red aro about 5” when i got it just about two months ago. The fist month everything went well fish was eating mp stuffed with pellets at one point had it eating them from my hand. The fish is in a 300 gallon plywood tank i built with a wet/dry sump with a ton of bio media and a drip system. Water paramaters are spot on 0amonia, 0 nitrites, nitrate between 5 & 10 ppm, ph about 7.4 but stable. I intorduced some small bichir that were quarentined but unfortunately he ate them....thats when the skittishness started. After eating them he went on a hunger strike for nearly a week and became really spooked. I broke the hunger strike by offering him sw and crickets reluctantly. A couple of times as i approached the tank he freaked out. Now he stays in the corner and only comes out to eat but goes right back to his corner. I ordered a dozen red hooks and blue hooks to go in with him as i am hoping they will help him feel more secure. Im at a loss as it was such an outgoing fish for the first month now it seems so stressed and scared. any suggestions? Thanks
Long time lurker first time poster. I recently took the plunge into asian arowana. I purchased a juvenile blood red aro about 5” when i got it just about two months ago. The fist month everything went well fish was eating mp stuffed with pellets at one point had it eating them from my hand. The fish is in a 300 gallon plywood tank i built with a wet/dry sump with a ton of bio media and a drip system. Water paramaters are spot on 0amonia, 0 nitrites, nitrate between 5 & 10 ppm, ph about 7.4 but stable. I intorduced some small bichir that were quarentined but unfortunately he ate them....thats when the skittishness started. After eating them he went on a hunger strike for nearly a week and became really spooked. I broke the hunger strike by offering him sw and crickets reluctantly. A couple of times as i approached the tank he freaked out. Now he stays in the corner and only comes out to eat but goes right back to his corner. I ordered a dozen red hooks and blue hooks to go in with him as i am hoping they will help him feel more secure. Im at a loss as it was such an outgoing fish for the first month now it seems so stressed and scared. any suggestions? Thanks