Red Maggot as Arowana food

[twentyleagues]

Black soldier fly larvae (bsl) are amazing food and i am confused as to why they aren’t so popular as foods.

I use a lot of the bug bites foods, made with black soldier fly. My fish love that stuff.

 

[Defalt]

Welcome!

Looks extremely fatty, I would use as a treat only and not a staple. I'm sure you could get cheaper insect larvae that does not target arowana, I assume that drives the price up a lot!

yeah looking from its content it looks super fatty, I'm currently trying to pellet train my arowana with hikari sticks. I'm thinking of mixing both pellets and worm 50/50 for every feeding do you think that's fine? Price wise per gram its the the same as hikari sticks. It's abit more expensive then usual maggot because there's betta carotene added, I heard its good for improving color. Do you think it's true or just marketing gimmick?

 

[Defalt]

Looks like meal worms. Get live ones and feed them carrots and sweet potato before feeding them to the arowana.

My aquarium is in a communal area and I don't think people would appreciate me keeping/ breeding live worms there haha. Anything dead doesn't need refrigeration and can fit in an opaque container would probably be preferable.

 

[Defalt]

Hey if you don’t like it you can get a 100% money back guarantee.

Yeah but it doesn't cover shipping and shipping is already half its price haha.

 

[Defalt]

Regardless there's a better way. Insects are an arowana staple, I dont think the fat content is that much of a worry with fish that typically eat insects.
I don't think black soldier fly larvae are that fatty either.

I'm not sure if its different if the insect is live vs processed but looking at the nutrition content, fat is listed as 25%. Is still normal and acceptable to be a staple food or is it too fatty?
PS. I'm feeding 50/50 mix of this maggot and hikari stick

 

[twentyleagues]

I'm not sure if its different if the insect is live vs processed but looking at the nutrition content, fat is listed as 25%. Is still normal and acceptable to be a staple food or is it too fatty?
PS. I'm feeding 50/50 mix of this maggot and hikari stick

I'd stick with the hikari. Maybe the red maggot less than 20%.

 

[Defalt]

Update: I was pellet training my arowana and after a week I had my first success. During that time I occasionally try feeding this red maggot to it just to measure interest. What's surprising to me is that my arowana never touched the maggots and in the end go for the pellet. I thought arowanas was suppose to hate pellets and enjoy bugs? I confirmed with the seller that he have only ever feed live small shrimp, feeder fish and German mealworm. I assume since he have a taste for worms it would be easy to get him to eat red maggot. Just found it weird after a week of starvation it choose pellets instead of red maggot.