WHO HAS THE BIGGEST

[MattyA]

What a beast! Do you feed it pestering children or something? Hate to see the food bill.

 

[BuffaloPolypteridae]

^ it looks like he feeds him cats lol that thing is insane I'd love to see that in person

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[Evz jardini]

he's 6-7 years old. here's a pic of him in his first year trying to eat an algae wafer that was for the pleco.

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he's currently in a tiny 4ft tank getting treated for finrot. normally i keep him in my pond thing which is approximately 8' x 4'.
diet is hikari cichlid gold pellets. i feed him beefheart about once a week. last month he swallowed a beer bottle cap and luckily threw it up after 11 days.

glad he survived the bottle cap would be such a shame to loose a beast like that , hope his fin rot clears up soon.
I'm trying to get my baby jar onto hikari gold atm he keeps spitting them (think there a bit hard so im soaking them a little) , he's a bit small to starve so next method is soaking/seansoning prawns with them

 

[FuriousFish]

That is one helluva nice lookin' jardini and is looking like just what Evz said..."Beastin"!!!

One of the true "MONSTERS" on this site!


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[aeri]

thanks. he's a good boy. one of the friendliest fish i have

the food bill isn't bad. i go through a bag of large pellets every 2-3 weeks maybe between him and his tankmates. beefheart is really cheap.

I'm trying to get my baby jar onto hikari gold atm he keeps spitting them (think there a bit hard so im soaking them a little) , he's a bit small to starve so next method is soaking/seansoning prawns with them

mine actually prefers when the pellets are fresh in the water. if they've soaked for a while he tends to spit it back out. he does leave scraps sometimes but my tinfoils and silver dollars clean it up.
have you tried the hikari foodsticks? arowanas usually prefer those.

 

[Evz jardini]

I know he'll eat hikari food stick (aros love them) that's the only pellet my other jar would eat .
I tried a bit of wishful thinking in that he'd eat hikari gold as there much cheeper , guess hikari sticks are next option feeds well on anything fresh atm
When I got in last nite two of my tin foils were dead and the third on its way out , no signs of damage or disease so im guessing jardini strikes again terrorised them to death , they were bigger than him but we all know what jars are capable of

 

[gamelovers11223]

Op is talking about a jardini and not a silver. Silver aros average about 2 feet in a little more a year. They have growth rate of 3 inches a month on the high side but its very common. Jardini's grow slower and dont nearly get as big. But just wondering what tank your silver is in? Roughly a two year old silver should be a fully mature aro.

Aro is in a 210 gallon tank with other large cichlids. I bought my aro a little more than a year ago at 11".
My aro clearly does not like to be photographed but here she is.