Training Arowana to eat Prepared Foods (Sticks/Pellets)

[Bderick67]

The six week aro was not starved, it refused to eat. It is also a 30"+ seven year old silver aro.

 

[Pravesh Shilotri]

Same with my High Back Golden.! Not Eating Pellets.!

 

[Madou]

Dude, I understand that you like your fish, but reviving 6 years old threads just to post the same pictures in 8 different of them is a bit overkill.

 

[maren aero]

mine just starter for almost 4 days. hope he will eat soon

 

[Rotaryp04s]

I went on a 2 and half week vacation, came back and my 8" aro started to eat pellets right away. when I came back it still look good wasn't so skinny but yeah that what it took to break my aro around 18 days starvation.

 

[JardiniArowanaKeeper]

Having the same struggle with my arowana. Currrently only like live fish and crickets. Please update on what worked to get him to eat pellets.

 

[momiloco]

Haha..
I think the topic is still relevant as long as there is a new arowana keeper.

I am also starting to train my arowana on pellet. Currently the diet is mostly crickets and MW. Occasionally frog and dubia. He does not like MP. Once I was out station for 4-5 days, when I feed him MP he can take it. but after mixing up with MW and cricket again, he doest take MP.. not his favourite I guess.

Now I am going to start training/ starving him so that I can feed him pellet. It is in a comm tank, with 2 5' IT, 8' flagtail, 3 myleus lamax, 2 clown loach, 2 polka dot loach 1 upside down catfish and one pleco. Hopefully i can also train my IT to accept pellet.

 

[Kan W]

Hello, I have my silver arowanas for about 2 weeks now and all they eat is the Hikari sticks, do I need to switch up the food for them? Or just keep feeding them the sticks??

 

[andychen100]

took me 2 weeks of starving my silver arowana to train it to eat pellet.

I tried frozen bloodworm around small pieces of pellet. It ate the bw/pellet, first time it spat it out. Second time, it accepted. Once it recognizes the pellet as food, will eat.

As per many advice here, it is indeed a case of not giving up.