what is a smallest arowana?

[dzb912]

just because they are flexible dosent mean you can put em in small tanks tho
what if it was you?
thatd hurt lol

 

[Hao]

africans are no no O_O they grow to 40 inch

 

[Miguel]

Even silvers and blacks get deformed from lack of space.

And blacks are, imo, the smallest and the slowest to grow....

 

[jay17]

so you are telling me that I can keep silver arowana in my 50cm width aquarium?
my aquarium is about 150g/750litres

you could put him there.. but put yourself in the aro's shoes (if he has one ), would you like to be put inside a small aquarium all your life?

 

[Bartek]

you could put him there.. but put yourself in the aro's shoes (if he has one ), would you like to be put inside a small aquarium all your life?

maybe may aquarium isn't widest one but I'm sure that is not short.
2 metres,that is two lengths of silver arowana,most people keep them in 5 foot aquarium :/

at least it will have some space to swim

 

[ethnics]

everyone can always tell u bigger, but buy what you want. a 150gal tank is plenty. especially one that is 20" wide. or 19.68 inches to be exact. buy yourself a baby arowana, 2-5 inches and enjoy it. try to upgrade later if you can, or plan ahead n maybe try to find a keeper in ur area who may adopt it a year or 2 down the road. my 20" wide 150gal tank currently houses my 22 inch leichardti. before i had that, and before i bought my 400gal tank, i had 2 silver arowanas each over 20 inches, and a jardini about 22 inches.

of course people say put yourself in his shoes, but he'll be fine for at minimum 1.5 years. just feed him every other day as a youngin, then as he passes 12 inches feed him once every 3-4 days. it'll reduce the supposed 1-3 inches a month rule cuz people always stuff their aro's daily and it speeds up the growth dramatically.

everyone has an opinion, you asked about aros and you were looking for answers. instead you got people telling you to buy some other weird fish, and avoided your question entirely. the choice is yours, the answers are on the table. n then there are the opinions

 

[Bartek]

I love fish's too much to treat them like that.
what other fish that is similar to arowana could I keep in my aquarium?
200cm length 75cm deep 50cm wide 750litres

 

[cl0wn knife]

il get a pic of mine 2 night mines more black then this 1 Papyrocranus afer also known as reticulated knife other name the arowana knifefish mines 15 inches if ur interested pm

 

[cl0wn knife]

max size in captivity 60cm but rarely reaches 50

 

[Bartek]

no thanks,I have look up some info on this knife fish and I don't like it too much.
it does not look like arowana