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Darwin is harsh lol..

David - you can be the brains of our breeding operation. Fishie - you're our publicity guy lol. Woohoo, our imaginary breeding business is really taking off now! :thup:

Cars

The last time I got bitten by my aro, he left scrape marks on my finger nails and small scratches on my fingers. If an ATF bit my hand, I think I'd have to re-count my fingers lol! No such thing as bad publicity, Henward! An interview with Mr Campbell would send sales skyrocketing lol..

I don't think that would be illegal per se.. But I suspect that if you tried to sell it without a microchip that would be illegal.

So I found out what an African Tiger Fish looks like: Holy moley that's a scary looking fish! Them teeth are too big for me, thankyouverymuch! :nilly:

Nope, not unless you have permission from some governing entity which protects the arowanas. I might be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that you can't simply breed them willy nilly. If you did breed them at home, they wouldn't be chipped, thus they would be illegal and nobody would want to risk buying/ owning one. Rays are nice, but better in ponds I reckon, not really tank fish, simply because of design. Gars are awesome but once again, either a big pond or a decommissioned swimming pool haha. What attracts me about aros is their shape/ colour/ swimming style but most importantly their personality. My tank is in my room, positioned about 3m behind my desk. I swear that every time I turn around and make eye contact with my aro, he stops swimming and comes as close as he can to look at me. He even does the S-shaped swim to keep my gaze. If I hide in another corner of the room where he can't see me, he just swims normally. I just don't see a ray having that kind of personality, despite being really cool fish..

Yeah, till MAF comes knocking on your door for illegally breeding an endangered species lol.. :facepalm:

Yeah, agree with Ira - either put a spray bar on the return inlet or position the return flow of water to disturb the water surface to allow air to mix with the water. What is the temperature of the tank? Water holds more oxygen at lower temperatures than at higher. So if you're running your tank at say, 28 deg C, you could gradually drop it down to 26 deg C or even 24 deg C which is acceptable for tropicals. I wouldn't go below 24 deg C for this season, just because there is a lot more heat loss from the tank than in summer, so if the ambient temperature does plummet, you have a few degrees to buffer it.

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Can you imagine how many generations it took to narrow the genetic traits? Aros take a few years to become mature enough to identify suitable traits, then to become sexually mature and finally there's the pairing up! Kudos to the guys who managed to breed the Sapphire Gold. :thup: The aro farm dream lives on haha.. Best place would be to rent some ponds from Huka Prawn Farm in Taupo lol. Warm water all year round and all the fresh prawn feeders you want! :happy1: It's not the length of the tank I was worried about, it's the width of it. Looks like it will become too long to turn around in another 2-3 months, depending on the growth rate. Don't mess around with turning radius lol, otherwise your aro will get a curled gill like mine. My poor little orphan had a bad childhood lol, so I'm trying to make up for lost time by pumping him up - unsure if his gill curl will ever recover. &c:ry

Buy one of those long pipe air stones, but make sure that it's long enough to run the length of your tank. Put that at the back of the tank and ta'da! you have a bubble wall - looks really cool. Plus, you can hide the airline at the side by the filter intake. Oops - forgot to ask how big your tank is haha. The bubble wall only works if it's a smallish sized tank. Do you really need the air stone? What kind of filter are you running? If you don't need to add it in then problem evaded lol.

I don't think that the parents will kill the old fry because of the new batch - somehow they still recognise that the fry are theirs, in my experience anyway. But anything can happen. If you really want as many fry to survive as possible, it would be best to move them into another tank. Knowing convicts, you'll soon have more fry than you know what to do with, so just let them be - survival of the fittest. Those that survive to become juveniles can be sold to LFS or trademe or something. (Henward is looking for cheap convict feeders haha)

Urinal

Yeah, bichirs don't hunt with their eyes anyway, they use their noses mostly. Just watch out for him in case the CK comes back for seconds..

Sorry, should have made my question more specific. Should I use a larger net bag which would allow the media to be less tightly compacted? I was thinking of buying one of those laundry bags for delicates to put the media in. Theoretically, the looser the media is, the more water would flow through, correct?

Hi all I've recently added about 3kg of cerami-sub into the submerged portion of my tower sump, but the thing is, when I use the net bags that Aqua One provided, the media is quite tightly packed together. Water still flows through the net bags, but will this make the media less effective? Will the media work better if it was less tightly packed together? Thanks.

Amazing, isn't it?! I mean, for the first month of the aro's life, it's too weighed down and weak to even swim! I'm assuming that while it's got the egg sac it's still supposed to be in the father's mouth, but man the eggs are huge!

Eraser

I thought this was sooo cool. The first 51 days of an arowana's life in pictures: http://www.arofanatics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=328934 Enjoy!

Hmm.. I've seen really nice BBRXB aros but I think BBGXB still has my vote - I like the contrast of the deeper blue colour and the gold rims. Ooohhhh the sight of full rims going all the way across the ridge and down around the belly makes me wanna go Homer Simpson !drool: lol..

It just doesn't look 'natural'.. The first aro has a ridge, but it's formed due to musculature and maturity of the fish. The second aro is genetically born this way and some people even look for this extreme 'spoon head' effect. A bit much for me, but to each his own I guess.. :dunno:

Good head ridge: Bad head ridge: I don't get the fascination with such a sharp head ridge - the second aro looks like it's got a 90 deg curve! *Photos taken from individual owners on Arofanatics.