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Posted by James N: When your fish is getting the best diet possible you can plan on it growing around 2″ per month. These things grow FAST! One of the most important factors when feeding fish is variety. Maybe one day feed them crickets then the next feed them live fish. Make sure that you are adding a carnivore pellet in there too. They need the vitamins from the fish food sticks. Even though these will be their least favorite of all the foods. Here is a top rated brand

Posted by Amanda P: I think the main part is making sure the fish are getting massive amounts of protein from the best foods like crickets and other fish. Then the vitamins fish NEED from the fish food. It’s sometimes hard to get my arowanas to even eat the pellet sticks… Sometimes I will wait days and somewhat make them super hungry and throw the pellets in. They get so hungry they don’t even know what theyre eating.

• Are you admitting to starving your fish??
• Your joking right.. I said that I wait days so that they are more hungry. I never once used the word “starve” in my statement.
• People do this all the time. I starve my fish until they eat the fish food (vitamins they need)! A variety of different foods is very important! Even if it’s not what they want. It’s a lot like having smaller kids… they can’t eat candy all the time.

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Posted by Ashley B: Is black golden arowana and peral arowana the same ???… Im a beginner in arowana…wat arowana do you recommend it shld be friendly n interactive n low maintenance.

• My Top 3 Arowana (1) Electric Blue Base Cross back Arowana (2) High- Back Red Tail Golden Arowana (3) Red Tail Golden Arowana When you said Panda Gold.. you are refering to a certain Farm not a type of arowana. i guess one of the best farm so far known to me is (1) Pang Long (2) Merlion (3) Qian Hu (4) Kim Kang
• I agree with you on that one, my uncle bought a Silver arowana about 18 years ago for 5,000 when it was about 1 year old. But also, it is how people want to spend their money. Its like how quite a few people in the US spend money on exotic cars, super fast computers, and other materials. It all comes down to how people believe they should spend their money; some on fishes that cost a fortune and other on cars that cost a fortune. In the end it comes down to want we want, not what we need.
• my top 3 arowanas are 3.super red arowana-reason: it looks sexy 2. Jaridini arowana-reason: Ive owned one for a long time and it was my first arowana 1. Silver Arowana-reason: I love the white ice color and I like that they’re peaceful compared to other arowanas.
• When I first started fish keeping I had a 120 gallon community tank (angel fish, rams, SAE, clown loaches, dension barbs) I was at the pet and a fish was limited time offer. it was a baby jaridini. when I got home it was late so I just put him in the tank then fell asleep then next morning all the fish were dead. The clown loaches survived since they were big. The jaridini lives in a 180 gallon now.
• My dad had an Red Arowana of some kind when he was young and the silver Arowana always followed him around until it died during the process of my dad’s filtration. He used air pumps on big sponges that worked really good.
• My dad had an Red Arowana of some kind when he was young and the Arowana always followed him around until it died during the process of my dad’s filtration. ):
• The only reason why silver isn’t #1 is because it’s cheap and common.  Having owned all 3, the jardini and asians look like salmon lol.  If you look hard enough, you’ll find a seller in the US even though they’re illegal.  A 12″ gold, red, chili, panda, xback etc… will cost ~$7500 USD minimum.
• my first choice is definitely not Panda gold. In fact, in my country Singapore, Panda Gold is considered one of the lowest grade of Asian Arowana. U can view my youtube, which i post only 1, a Bluebase XB. U can see the snake skin cheeks, the crossing of scales up to level 6, the blue core scales from level 1. This piece is worth 10 times a panda gold in Singapore. I am valuing a fish based on its amount. But compared asian aro itself. And i do have silver aro at home now. My choice will be Bluebase XB, Blue base red aro and silver aro.

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Posted by Jesse R: The core of their diet should consist of pellets to ensure that are receiving the nutrition they need. They make some super good carnivore pellets that are stacked with protein. The main thing you need to watch for is QUALITY though.. there are so many crappy brands claiming to be the best. I would buy a brand that has been around for ages and everyone talks about. Here is some top rated stuff I use

As snacks I feed mine krill, bloodworms, frozen silversides, crickets and crushed baby mystery snails and if you can get them to accept them a high quality carnivore pellet. You may find that your fish reject the pellets from time to time.. but all you need to do is wait it out. Give them a couple days to grow a stronger hunger which makes them feed on the pellets. Don’t feel bad.. the pellets are a huge importance to their diet and health.

• I Agree! I also think it’s important to get your fish on pellets at a young age. This gets them use to eating them. If you feed them only the “best live” foods.. they will never touch the pellets and that could be a problem.
• If you use the trick where you starve them for a couple days that usually works! People have to remember these fish can go weeks without eating too. I’ve gone 3 full weeks without my fish eating. I was super worried but they came back eating very strong after that. Sometimes… fish just get weird and don’t feel like eating.
• Not sure if I agree with “fish just not eating” I believe something is wrong with the water most likely. Animals eat when they are hungry and that’s just how mother nature works. If they stop eating for weeks… soemthign is wrong. That’s just my opinion though.

@Reply: That’s why I went on about how I’m not responding about tank size and hate lol. All species including the silver eat pretty much the same right?

@Reply: Oscar pellets or “Large Cichlid Pellets” work great. Here is an attached image of Omega One’s top seller for large cichlids from Amazon.com. Use these pellets with other live foods. You want a variation of diet.

@Reply: I feed mine mice, baby birds worms ,pinkies ,Oscar pellets, he would eat anything.

@Reply: Guppies, pellets, mealworms.

@Reply: One of the biggest factors to feeding aquarium fish is to randomize it. No animal should be eating the same exact thing every single meal. A lot of people screw this up. As long as you make sure the fish has some good protein in it’s diet it will do fine. They are very hungry fish and will continue to eat in a ravenous state. I had an Aro years ago and that thing would eat anything you put inside the tank (including your hand if you weren’t careful). Hopefully this helps.

Do Arowanas Eat Pellets?

The core diet of your fish should be pellet sticks. There was a great brand posted above (Hikari Carnivore Floating Pellets). The reason pellets are so important is because they are full of the vitamins that fish need. If they just feed on whatever they want all the time.. they wouldn’t be obtaining the needed nutrition. It’s a lot like a smaller child eating whatever they want.. not good for their health.

*Side note: If you don’t want the fish to be super aggressive try to kill the food right before feeding it to them. This makes it so the Arowana doesn’t have to make the kill itself and it works less and somewhat gets used to this. This makes the fish less aggressive by nature (they say). But remember that these fish are one of the most aggressive and powerful aquarium fish hobbyists can keep as pets.

@Reply: They are strictly Carnivores right? I would suggest Pandragram Carnivore then.

@Reply: Sorry man don’t have the heart to feed mice or birds or guppies and no they are not.

@Reply: Then Pandragram omnivore…. It’s a very high quality food, I love it!

@Reply: Krill and shrimp…occasion live crickets… ive used the San Francisco bay brand of frozen krill, along with the omega one dried krill…for shrimp i usually buy shrimp fresh from market as a treat…and for crickets i buy from feed stores rather than the commercial big box pet stores…and i agree hikari has its challenges nowadays.

A feed store are those local stores that sell bulk pet foods for all sorts of animals like horses, swine, birds, etc…wherever you live google ‘feed store’ and see what you come up with…i started going to them to buy pig food for my pet and then haven’t been back to a big box pet store since.

@Reply: I used to keep crickets and feed them very well. Then feed them to my old aro. He loved them. I fed him all kinds of stuff but he loved crickets. I only used feeder crickets from the pet store though, because they were clean and softer bodied.

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