skittish silver aro

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islander671 said:
in that case i would probably have an easier time finding it online.
i would love to put him in a 180 but finding one around here is the hard part but im sure i will be investing in one of that size in the future. thanks again for your help.
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180g is way to small, for keeping a full grown silver ,at 48" it will require close to 1000g. But then again you probably wont listen to what I said , and you will end up with stressed constantly, and more than likely deformed arow.
 
how many 48" arowana do you see in aquariums? if you wanted to be completly ethical you should never remove the fish from its natural habitat because nothing will ever compare to that. there have been plenty of adult arowana's live long happy lives in 180's. although this is still on the small side it is the bare minimum size for these great fish.
 
dodgefreak8 said:
how many 48" arowana do you see in aquariums? if you wanted to be completly ethical you should never remove the fish from its natural habitat because nothing will ever compare to that. there have been plenty of adult arowana's live long happy lives in 180's. although this is still on the small side it is the bare minimum size for these great fish.
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Yeah thats a smart thing to say, especialy when we are all in the practice of keeping fish in aquariums. Do you subscribe to that way of thinking? I think not! I just don't want to see fish of this size cramped into a tank that they will have difficulty turning around in, why don't you put a 2" tetra in a 2" wide tank? And just to answer your question one of my , lets just say "friends" has a silver arow in a 35,000g aquarium(for public veiwing)( he owns the aquarium) And this fish is over 4 foot long. So yes provided they have the adequate enviroment provided they will reach their potential.
180g , dimensions 72"*24"*24", this size tank for a fish that will and this is a fact reach over 3 feet in lenght ,Is not enough room for it to live stress free.
I will say it again , what you should do and can do are two different things!
I will say again a fish of that size will at least need a tank with a width of 60 inches, and a tank of that size will ultimately mean a tank close to 1000g.
 
ashdavid said:
180g is way to small, for keeping a full grown silver ,at 48" it will require close to 1000g. But then again you probably wont listen to what I said , and you will end up with stressed constantly, and more than likely deformed arow.
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i can see your point.. however a 1000g tank is not feasible for my situation. when the time comes and he has outgrown the largest living space i can provide for him i have arranged for him to be donated to an aquarium at a nearby lake resort that does have an adequate facitlity for him. Ive already done this to a clown knife that i couldnt provide a home for because he outgrew it. (by the way i didnt purchase these fish, i took them off the hands of people who purchased them not knowing how large these fish can get) pls do not assume that i dont have the best intersets of my fish in mind.
 
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