why the droop eye?

[Hao]

no he meant in the wild not captive

 

[Retuks]

Either way you can try to simulate the wild aros diet, but because of lack of resources I would believe you will fall way short in nutritional value.

again with the nutrition

if i simulate the aro's wild diet, then how can you assume that?

what?.. just because its owned by a human, this automatically means its "junk food" if we feed it living things, regardless of what animal is consumed??... sounds like a "cause i said so" type of fact to me. ahh the pellets and tubifex worms must be from heaven then... the greater power must have MEANT for humans to take care of aros and made them too expensive and big for many just for ****s and giggles! ahhh greater beings, such a colorful bunch.

 

[Retuks]

oh about the bird thing, i saw something on either animal planet or discovery channel. a speed camera arowana jump to one of those white egret-like amazon birds. it was a baby though.

 

[Retuks]

oh, and just so that i dont spur confusion and haterade drinkers out there, the twig the baby was"balancing" on was about up to my hip if i was standing there.

 

[peewee]

hey, even silver aro's from the wild get DE...i've seen one in national geographic that ate crickets above the water near the tree branches and still has DE.

 

[feeling2good]

hey, even silver aro's from the wild get DE...i've seen one in national geographic that ate crickets above the water near the tree branches and still has DE.

i wanna see this.

 

[Hao]

they do get DE thats what bderick showed us last time or told us or sum1 else did

 

[David R]

again with the nutrition

if i simulate the aro's wild diet, then how can you assume that?

I hope you're going to simulate the other environmental factors that go with the diet, there's no point in just replicating one aspect of it.
Start with a house-sized aquarium, then find a filter/water change schedule that can match the flow of a river. Change the flow and level of the water to simulated the flooded forest and then the receding water of the dry season. Then take about 300 juvi's and let natural selection take its course with the vast majority of them...

Also, where exactly are you going to get a good supply of insects/reptiles/birds native to the amazon basin to feed to it? And they have to be wild-caught not captive bred or else they might not be nutritionally complete because of what they have been fed being raised in captivity. Obviously you can't feed non-native animals because that wouldn't be replicating the true wild diet. You'll have to do research into which species are most commonly eaten by arowanas in the locality that your wild-caught stock is going to come from (obviously you wouldn't be going to all this trouble for captive-bred fish), that in itself could be a few years study.

See where this is going?

 

[rallysman]

I hope you're going to simulate the other environmental factors that go with the diet, there's no point in just replicating one aspect of it.
Start with a house-sized aquarium, then find a filter/water change schedule that can match the flow of a river. Change the flow and level of the water to simulated the flooded forest and then the receding water of the dry season. Then take about 300 juvi's and let natural selection take its course with the vast majority of them...

Also, where exactly are you going to get a good supply of insects/reptiles/birds native to the amazon basin to feed to it? And they have to be wild-caught not captive bred or else they might not be nutritionally complete because of what they have been fed being raised in captivity. Obviously you can't feed non-native animals because that wouldn't be replicating the true wild diet. You'll have to do research into which species are most commonly eaten by arowanas in the locality that your wild-caught stock is going to come from (obviously you wouldn't be going to all this trouble for captive-bred fish), that in itself could be a few years study.

See where this is going?

You said what I was going to say. It a lot more words. Probably a bit more friendly too. Thanks
I would like to add that it's not impossible that arowanas die from eating birds in the wild, so a lot of people take things like that into consideration. Not to mention that the bird has no chance whatsoever of getting away so it's a bit cruel in a way.

 

[Bderick67]

I hope you're going to simulate the other environmental factors that go with the diet, there's no point in just replicating one aspect of it.
Start with a house-sized aquarium, then find a filter/water change schedule that can match the flow of a river. Change the flow and level of the water to simulated the flooded forest and then the receding water of the dry season. Then take about 300 juvi's and let natural selection take its course with the vast majority of them...

Also, where exactly are you going to get a good supply of insects/reptiles/birds native to the amazon basin to feed to it? And they have to be wild-caught not captive bred or else they might not be nutritionally complete because of what they have been fed being raised in captivity. Obviously you can't feed non-native animals because that wouldn't be replicating the true wild diet. You'll have to do research into which species are most commonly eaten by arowanas in the locality that your wild-caught stock is going to come from (obviously you wouldn't be going to all this trouble for captive-bred fish), that in itself could be a few years study.

See where this is going?

Very well stated