I want to have arowanas but the first arowanas I bought died on me it seemed the whole group at the lfs had something wrong since 4 of them died on the lfs. I talked today a fish importer and he’s going to bring Arowanas this month and I was wondering if anyone here could give me their tips to raising arowanas I would really appreciate it
Silver Arowana
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There is numerous sources in raising Arowanas on this forum. Big one is the Arowana sub forum! https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/forums/arowanas.110/
Simple tips? Get a big tank, over filter the water, stay away from live foods and flake/pellet train early, make sure the tank is covered really good, and water changes!
Here’s the way I like to pick baby Arowanas. Most lfs’s will bring in a group of babies. I ask them to bring out a flake of flake food. Toss it in the tank away from the group. The one that comes out and eats the flake comes home with me! Pretty much saves me the time knowing he will eat non live foods, and he’s usually the strongest and boss of the batch anyways.
Simple tips? Get a big tank, over filter the water, stay away from live foods and flake/pellet train early, make sure the tank is covered really good, and water changes!
Here’s the way I like to pick baby Arowanas. Most lfs’s will bring in a group of babies. I ask them to bring out a flake of flake food. Toss it in the tank away from the group. The one that comes out and eats the flake comes home with me! Pretty much saves me the time knowing he will eat non live foods, and he’s usually the strongest and boss of the batch anyways.
Thanks for answering, I got big tanks I have 3 200g tanks, 2 150g tank, 1 300g tanks, 1,200 gallon pond and the 4000 thousand gallon pond
You sound pretty set! Arowanas are pretty easy to raise fish. They are hardy and pretty resilient. The number one thing that has caused a death of my arowanas is jumping out the tank.
I purchased a silver arowana a few weeks ago and it’s around seven inches. I had been feeding it flakes and freeze dried krill and it was eating fine. I’ve noticed that it hasn’t eaten in the past two or three days. I have it in a 90 gallon tank now with tho koi angel and plan on moving it to my 265 when it gets a little bigger. Any suggestions on why it stopped eating ?