What kind of Arowana Sticks for Food?

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1 lb. of sticks ~= $15-$20 ~= 5 lbs. of raw shrimps/fish fillets

I have been and will be sticking with the raw diet for the $$$ reason because I plan on keeping my jar for a long while to come. Rotating among raw whole shrimps, salmons/talapias/whitings/chicken(yes chicken) fillets as staple, and earth worms, big crikets, superworms (and soon home-bred guppies feeders) as occasional treats.

I'm not saying feeding sticks is not a way to go, jut not an economical way.
 
I think the sticks are much more nutritious than just feeding straight raw seafood.

I've only used the Hikari food sticks, no experience with the other ones. Hikari makes a good product. I'm not familiar with the other one. It might be great, but I have no idea.
 
SpeshulEd;3718839; said:
I think the sticks are much more nutritious than just feeding straight raw seafood.

I'm not disagreeing with you and most mfk-er's here - the first thing I did before starting on raising my baby jardini at 3" was reading the diet sticky page in this forum, so I know The Sticks is sworn by by almost everyone here. But in the wild, do arowana's eat foods that are as nutritious as The Sticks? If I could at least provide as close of a diet to what they would have in the wild as possible, I've accomplished my goal for my jar.

Also, feeding the fish sticks only would be like us eating processed food only, e.g. food bars made of shrimps/fish/powder/etc. and nothing else. That is not a good diet to me, at least the taste part :)
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nolapete;3718917; said:
I use the azoo, but you need to mix up their diet for best health. Shrimp, fish fillets, nightcrawlers, crickets, mealworms, etc.
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Has anyone succeeded at feeding his/her arowana(s) BOTH The Sticks and raw foods on a regular basis? I have not seen one successful case. One would have to starve the fish in order to get him on pellets, and would have to stay clear of raw foods in order to keep that diet continuing to work.
 
I think we're all on the same page here - variety is key.

If the aro eats sticks, I'd keep it in his diet. My small silver gets sticks as a staple. My large black gets them as a staple too, but at 20" - thats a lot of sticks, so he gets a lot more seafood than the smaller silver.

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arodini;3718925; said:
Has anyone succeeded at feeding his/her arowana(s) BOTH The Sticks and raw foods on a regular basis? I have not seen one successful case. One would have to starve the fish in order to get him on pellets, and would have to stay clear of raw foods in order to keep that diet continuing to work.
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Mine eat both without a problem. I usually feed a large handful of sticks first. Then a large handful of massivore. Then a large handful of raw for my 450g. Same thing for the 120g, just smaller amounts.
 
My jardini eats both the azoo food sticks and a mix of other stuff I find laying around including market prawns, crickets, grasshoppers, nightcrawlers and on occasional koi color pellets which it steals from the other fish.
 
arodini;3718925; said:
Has anyone succeeded at feeding his/her arowana(s) BOTH The Sticks and raw foods on a regular basis? I have not seen one successful case. One would have to starve the fish in order to get him on pellets, and would have to stay clear of raw foods in order to keep that diet continuing to work.
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i feed my silver hikari food sticks and raw seafood with the occational live minnow feeding aswell
 
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