Either too full or don't like bigger feed. Pima spits out a 14" leporinus.
Smaller pima in 4500 gal, ~16"-18"
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From YT, a very useful lesson:
Poseidon Fernandes bose535 Wow Victor the arapaimas are soo nice. Just lost my arapaima today due to stress from the small enclosure it was in. The arapaima was 6yrs old 6.7ft. Would never buy one again if i cant have a mega pond.
Fish-Story My sympathies. Was it the one you kept in a 5000-6000 gal pond?
Poseidon Fernandes bose535 It was (13ftL×7ftBx5ftH) it was too small and i didnt have any option to make a bigger one or even give him to someone cause this arapaima was the biggest out here. Even the public aquarium had no bigger space to house him.
Fish-Story Yeah, sorry to hear. I remember I was mightily surprised when you said it never tried to jump out. Our two prior pima at 5 and 5.5ft jumped out of 13x13ftx4.5ft.
Poseidon Fernandes bose535 yes it never jumped but got stressed at the end due to the small size pond. Learnt a lesson the hard way.
Poseidon Fernandes bose535 Wow Victor the arapaimas are soo nice. Just lost my arapaima today due to stress from the small enclosure it was in. The arapaima was 6yrs old 6.7ft. Would never buy one again if i cant have a mega pond.
Fish-Story My sympathies. Was it the one you kept in a 5000-6000 gal pond?
Poseidon Fernandes bose535 It was (13ftL×7ftBx5ftH) it was too small and i didnt have any option to make a bigger one or even give him to someone cause this arapaima was the biggest out here. Even the public aquarium had no bigger space to house him.
Fish-Story Yeah, sorry to hear. I remember I was mightily surprised when you said it never tried to jump out. Our two prior pima at 5 and 5.5ft jumped out of 13x13ftx4.5ft.
Poseidon Fernandes bose535 yes it never jumped but got stressed at the end due to the small size pond. Learnt a lesson the hard way.
