truth of arowana growth

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also, check your water parameters. if the appetite is unusual maybe something's off with your set-up than what your fish is used to
 
I once read that Arowanas 'fast' themselves in the wild on purpose to become more lean and agile during the breeding season. They also do this as a 'training' regimen to become more muscular, which allows them to jump higher out of the water to catch prey. Interesting, huh?
 
Our Arrowana went off food for 5 weeks for no apparent reason... it finally took crickets to get him eating again... We were so worried about him...tried everything and anything... he would swim and continue to act himself and after 5 weeks amazingly he looked no worse for it.. {but whew we were happy} and then about a month later he jumped out of the tank during the middle of the night and found him there in the morning.. go through all that and raising him from a wee baby only to lose him at 3feet long...going through it again though.. cannot be with out an Arrowana.. so here is our new youngster..
 
Miles said:
I once read that Arowanas 'fast' themselves in the wild on purpose to become more lean and agile during the breeding season. They also do this as a 'training' regimen to become more muscular, which allows them to jump higher out of the water to catch prey. Interesting, huh?
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thats pretty interesting....my arowana is wild caught too....very nice colors....has the greenish color in him....with pink and some blue.....and of course silver......


yeah same here i always have to have an arowana =)
 
good to hear that he' already eating. try to give him other foods aside from the usual.
 
he is about 12 inches
i threw in a frozen smelter about 3 inches
frozen solid.....
it was for my channel cat....
my aro went and swallowed it....
amazing....
cant fish choke on food
 
Before my aro was usually a very friendly and melow monster and would be picky about what he ate, and one day he stopped eating for like a month, but he still seemed fine and normal... after that suddenly he wasn't picky anymore and started to eat about anything that i threw in the tank... even Pellets!!! (which he never ever had interest in before, Amazing!!) He also grew more aggressively and started to only sometimes chase other tank mates around. And now he has mellowed out a little again.
 
Red Devil said:
Our Arrowana went off food for 5 weeks for no apparent reason... it finally took crickets to get him eating again... We were so worried about him...tried everything and anything... he would swim and continue to act himself and after 5 weeks amazingly he looked no worse for it.. {but whew we were happy} and then about a month later he jumped out of the tank during the middle of the night and found him there in the morning.. go through all that and raising him from a wee baby only to lose him at 3feet long...going through it again though.. cannot be with out an Arrowana.. so here is our new youngster..
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It's really sad to have to lose a fish after years of care. But the challenge there is to move on and have a new baby again...
 
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