Maintaining an appropriate feeding schedule for your baby arowana is quite hectic and a job of great commitment. You must understand some very basic and important aspects relating specifically with raising baby arowana in captivity. Baby arowana are very fragile. In the aquarium trade retailers often sell very small arowana babies that are just inches long.
This is illegal in several states because of several reasons. Foremost being the unethical exploitation of Arowana fish. Most of the babies die in transportation because of starvation. Even if some percentage reach to customers, most do not possess experience, knowledge and commitment to raise a baby arowana. To avoid such cruelty its of utter importance that you should buy trade certified arowana bred in certified arowana farms. Yes the certified arowana will be twice or thrice as expensive as illegal one but buying a certified arowana will ensure that they have been treated well and being transported with utmost care and in accordance with the law.
Secondly, certified arowana will be around an year old and will be on a commercial feed. This will save you a lot of hardship of preparing food and providing varied diet to your arowana fish. Now lets see what you can do if somehow you end up having inches very young fragile arowana individual.
First of all learn to recognize the specific breed falling in your lap. This is because low muscle density breeds like southern secleropages southern jardini or south Australian arowana and green arowana are far less likely to make it to adulthood if they land in the aquariums of new comers to arowana.
Baby arowana fish feeding especially in case of these above mentioned breeds is very tricky. Baby arowana are moody and they need very frequent feeding. You will be required to feed juveniles as much as times a day. They need a balanced diet to develop into healthy adults. Being moody and choosy will pose a great challenge for you in providing a varied and balanced diet.
Mostly the heavy breeds like Australian jardini arowana will defy odds and will make it to adulthood rather easily. In my personal experience live feed will works better for small baby arowana. Almost always my personal fishes have preferred live feed over pallets and meat.
In feeding live fish you must take notice that too big fish will not be swallowed properly and might pose a danger of choking to your baby arowana. A few times i have raised baby arowana form barely 3 inch size and of all the breed i have and had in past I found green arowana and southern seclaropages the most challenging to raise.
I will illustrate my experience in some other work but for now let me point out some important factors in baby arowana fish feeding. You will be more familiar with the fish if you have raised it from early stage. In a different case you might be getting a fish from the market and will be unfamiliar to the behavior and habits of the fish.
Let us discuss both cases in detail. Prawns are pretty much an insect equivalent. I mean the small 'prawns' we use in the UK for prawn cocktail and prawn sandwiches, which are actually a species of shrimp. Don't feed real prawns king prawns, tiger prawns, etc as they contain thiaminase which interferes with vitamin B production.
Cockles, Mussels, small bits of white fish cod, haddock, pollack, coley, whiting etc are good foods. Live crickets and stuff for reptiles are excellent foods. So are earthworms and compost worms. I've had two Arowanas. I wanted to be a bit more constructive than I was on your other thread. It will still outgrow your tank though.
My second grew from 4" to 30" in about 2 years Thank you Hampalong. My wster stats are Nitrite 0,Nitrate 0,Ammonia 0 and ph 6.
Need some advice from you.. Any more replies?? Is he still not eating? What have you tried feeding him? Anything soft and meaty. These became its staple diet, along with earthworms. Thank you EchI and Hampalong, I will try what you told. Try something that will stay floating, it should tempt him eventually How big is the fish? Is it the one in your avatar? That one is about a foot long.
Are there any other fish in the tank? Any pictures? He is only taking feeder guppies and not non live food. What shud I do to make him eat non live food? He is 7 inches long. And here is a picture of him I'm not sure how to switch them, but he's one pretty arowana!
Click to expand Yeah, he was eating sun dried shrimp.. Similar Aquarium Threads. Arowana tips? Colbyxxs Oct 19, Arowana. Replies 3 Views Oct 19, Yeoy. Question How do I feed my neons tetras? ZeldaNerd May 3, Fish Food. There are a lot of elements that contribute to whether they are on the lower or higher end of the spectrum, and those elements include diet, aquarium conditions, and care.
Scarily enough, arowanas are considered to be carnivores! Since they also have a varying diet, they can be considered omnivores as well. In the wild, their diet consists of insects, smaller fish, snails, and even rabbits and snakes! We are just as surprised by the last two as you are. In general, the arowana still prefers other fish, insects, and even small crustaceans.
The unique shape of their mouths also gives arowanas an advantage when hunting. They dwell on the surface to wait in the wings and as soon as something delicious lands on the water, they scoop it up with their mouths like a spoon. To give your arowana the best care, you need to make sure its diet is as close to what it prefers in the wild as possible.
As said, they are considered mostly carnivores, which is why you should focus their diet on a meat-based meal plan. Look at incorporating earthworms, crustaceans, and even some beef. Breeder fish is also a great idea because this will simulate a natural environment and allow them to hunt the way they would in the wild. They like to search for insects and fish, so why not give them that opportunity? You can even consider feeding them frozen meat if you are worried about the food quality in aquarium stores.
The silver arowanas belong to the Osteoglossidae family and are freshwater fish indigenous to South America. Arowanas are amazing fish of a large size and are very powerful as well. Their tanks need to be large enough to give them free swimming space and it should also be covered to prevent jumping and escaping.
Babies can be raised in smaller tanks, but because they grow so quickly and changing the tank can be a real pain, so we suggest investing in a large tank from the get-go. Substrate you should place in the tank include plants, rocks and driftwood. The most ideal temperature will also be slightly warmer, due to being from the Amazon. Arowanas are particularly sensitive to water changes and poor water quality. Depending on how many arowanas you keep, you are looking at a minimum tank size of gallons for one!
The large tank size alone makes maintenance and care difficult, especially considering that you need to change the water every week.
You also need to make sure you are feeding them the right kind of food and since their diet consists mainly of live food, you need to clean out the leftovers immediately. The rotting carcasses of the leftover food can really alter water conditions. They are fish that can take up most of the space in a tank, so if you are considering tank mates, you need to make sure the other fish plus the arowana itself has enough room.
They are predatory creatures, which means that a lot of the smaller fish kept with them can easily become prey. As young fry, they are actually more susceptible to being bullied by other more aggressive fish than being the bullies themselves. If you plan on adding a young arowana, then it will be the other fish you are worried about.
Arowanas are also suggested to be kept in groups as well, this is to help the band together against more aggressive fish. Although, when they reach maturity, they are usually the dominant ones in the tank. Think about these deciding factors when considering fish mates for your arowana. Therefore, you should look for peaceful yet slightly aggressive fish such as angelfish or catfish. Fish that they can gulp down in a single bite will definitely end up being food.
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