Things to remember when feeding your arowana: These fish are surface feeders often gliding just below the water surface. Feed young fish 2-3 times a day, adults once a day; feed only what they can eat in 1 to 2 minutes.
What do wild arowana eat?
Arowanas are carnivores. In the wild, they prey on small fish and insects- both in and out of the water- and due to their large size and rapid growth, arowanas need a high protein quality diet.
Why is my arowana jumping?
Based on my years of experience keeping these fish, the two main reasons arowanas jump are stress and food. A common cause of stress is when a fish outgrows its tank. In confined spaces, arowanas feel trapped. Their first instinct is to jump for freedom.
What should I Feed my arowana?
Feeding. Some silver arowana can be trained to take fish food pellets, but most will prefer a very meaty diet, with the regular addition of feeder fish. Some of the best foods to feed them are earthworms (be careful they aren’t taken from areas where pesticides are used), shrimp, beef heart, and crab meat.
What is best food for Arowana?
To this end keeping your Arowana with a suitable bottom feeder may be a good idea. These foods can include: worms, crickets, grasshoppers, locus, fly, small frogs, small fish (limited quantities) and shrimps with shells. Some Arowana may take floating fish food. Some foods help to promote a good colour in your fish.
Can the arowana eat earthworms?
Frozen centipedes will intensify and enhance the color of your Arowana fish. Amphibians like geckos, lizards, frogs, crustaceans like shrimps and prawns, and worms like earthworms, mealworms, and tubifex worms are also essential in an Arowana fish’s diet. You can also include fish meat in your pet’s diet.
Do arowana have teeth?
Silver arowana has elongated body, wedge-shaped head and wide mouth that opens in drawbridge-like manner. Two barbels on the lower jaw serve as sensory organs (they facilitate detection of food). Jaw bones, palate, tongue and pharynx are covered with teeth.
