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Training Arowana to eat Prepared Foods (Sticks/Pellets)

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