hey there guys just g0t a new ar0 , hes b0ut 12cm l0ng. anyway s0 far all hes eatn is ch0ped up prawns , guppys and flys.

he w0nt t0uch the pellets... how can i get him 0n the pellets? lol any help would be co0l

o sweet az , wel mite have to try the starve him fing or sumthn lol kinda mean but owel its gota be done lol

could you keep a couple of them in a six footer ?

yea i did heapz of readn up on him way befor i got him as i do with all my new fish.

hes only in a 3 foot at the moment as he is so small , im just gona grow him out in there for now, and when he gets bigger he can go in my oscar and red head tank .... and in a few years later ill be needing a bigger tank for all of them lol wel thats if my parents let me get more tanks lol

well i joined aro fanatics and monster fish keepers and most ppl on there forums said they would be fine with large cichlids there ppl who have mixed them befor so they kno what there talkn bout i hope lol, thy also said thy develop drop eye at a young age if there g0na, and all mine lives wit is a couple of bristlenoses, but yea thanks for the info ! its good to get as much advice as possible! thanxz!

what size tank is yours in?

oooooooooooooo co0ol! , how wide will your 8 foot be?

wow a 10 footer would be an awsum size tank! sounds sweet good luck on that

at 12cm hes still pretty young, add 50cm and hes nearly full grown (if hes a silver) :lol:

ive heard aros are like clowns in the fact that if theyre not taught to eat prepared foods when theyre young they often wont change their minds. i would imagine worms would be a alright food for them (not sure on that one) and theyre cheap and easy to culture. at least hes eating prawns (which are dead) which means there is hope :lol: if he was one of those ones that wants to eat only live things you might have a prob. i would try and vary up his diet heaps while hes young, i would imagine it could make feeding him when hes older easier. if you get pellets get good quality floating ones, aros feed naturally from the surface i think and some people beleive sinking foods can play a part in drop eye :-? im no aro expert, this is just what ive read on forums. i wonder if theres any home made recipies like there is for discus etc? if he accepted that you could probably make that a good staple cause you can mix in all the necessary stuff.

swimming below him can (and prolly will) cause Drop-Eye, and you cant fix it.

is there really no way to fix this or just really really hard? my friend has a silver aro with drop eye and i am just wanting he help him out here.

yea i dont think theres any way you can get rid of it once hes got it , all you can do is prevent it i spoze befor its to late , but aparently most aros breed on fish farms ect have a good chance of getting drop eye.. ,wel just what i redup

i think (not totally sure) it is due to the muscle doing something funky? theyre made to look up and when they look down alot (they like to keep an eye on their lower tank mates) this can cause the muscle to sag or something? i think i also read it was bacterial but like i said, im not sure. i am unsure if its fatal or not but it doesnt look that nice.

i thought 3 foot in home aquaria was going darn good? most of the 'adults' i see are around 65cm or so, are they stunted? i thought in the wild they got around 4 foot? i think if they grow that big i might not be up to housing one, thats a 1.8m wide tank at least (going on the 4LX2LX2L (L being length of fish) but on the other hand its a REALLY good excuse for a bigger tank...

Not too sure yet, if we move before we get the tank, it might be 10ft.

But not sure how wide as of yet.

I want only the best for my Fave Fishy. :-)

sounds like youve got one hell of a mission coming up how many tanks you got sounds like a few

oh i meant cause you say they average 89-102 (89 is close to three foot) and i see the ones around 65 and i thought that getting closer to 3 foot meant youve got a bigun on your hands and it isnt very common

hi, most aro's don't get to full size due to their strange habit of jumping out,owners not reliseing how strong these fish are.

if anyone is getting a new young aro,float a ping-pong ball in the tank,never put them in a glass bottom tank, and don't have bottom dwealers in the tank,feed a varied diet floating pellets and moth's(live).

you can feed them prawns when they are large. their eyes usually won't drop once they get to a certain size. drop eye seems to be a trate that affects silvers more than anyothers, my blacks,pearl and asain never had this problem.my first silver did,but my second didn't. it usually only affects one eye too(strange) never figured that out.

buyer beware double check before buying(eyes) they are kept in BB tanks in quareentine so often the problem has already started.

hope this is of some help to anyone looking at buying on of these beautiful fish.

shell.

Not too sure yet, if we move before we get the tank, it might be 10ft.

But not sure how wide as of yet.

I want only the best for my Fave Fishy. :-)

Speaking as an ex-aro owner, go for width over length. You would be better off with an 8'x4' than a 10'x2'. My black aro took just over two years to get to the stage where he was nearly touching front to back on my 5'x2' tank!!

They are also slow swimmers - so do not need a great length like other fast swimmers. (They 'cruze' the tank)

Have you never flicked the light on when you come home late at night and freaked yours out?? Mine could hit the glass at each end of the 5' tank several times in a matter of seconds!!

You can try feeding cockroaches, they can be easily breed in a empty fish tank. If you don't want to feed them live, you can steam them with a hot air gun and a bowl of water. anything above 40 degrees will cause the cockroaches cells from be able to function. Arows love them :lol: 8) 8) :lol:

dont put them in the microwave, they blow up :oops:

i didnt, my wierdo mother did :lol: she decided to test the theory of them surviving a nuclear explosion and decided the microwave was the way to do it :-? she realised after that it was the eggs that are tough, not the parent :roll:

sometimes my mother doesnt seem to be the brightest crayon in the box :lol: