henward

still frickin awesome! i want an aro comm! ..... me things dont sell 1200litre and make aro comm.... NO HENWARD DONT DO IT MY PRECIOUS>... DO IT!! DO IT IT WILL BE COOLLLLLLL no , dont do it please, dont do it.... you need to save for a weddin.. my precious.... do it! there is nothign wrong with silver comm...... your fiance will love it... NO, please... dont do it......... :evil:

well, makes sense, its logical. your comments are based on logical, scientific theory which is what we base our knowledge on when it comes to fish, simply applied to another species. so i buy it:D from whati have seen, getting the aro to a good healthy size, girth and activity level is key. colour will come with good water, food and care. then tanning

yeah, costly though in a big tank, you will need a few lol i would just leave it and in time will go away. fish like it too

I would add 3 more to make 4 total. are you gonna just add silvers or mix it up a little, maybe a green in there?

awesome tank!! huge! needs clarity though:D or is that tannin from the wood? i like to pretend im snorkellign when viewing my tank.. i reckon 3 aros minimum. if you just add another, you may get lucky and they get along, 50/50 gamble i guess. aro comm is my holy grail so been doing alot of readin, the more the better supposedly.

does it pellets? or strictly live insencts? how easy is it to train to pelletS?

cool looking forward to it! may come have a look see when you redo the tank set up.

it was jsut cheaper! i guess it came down to cost and economy, my hobby was costing too much. hence the sale too. but i mean i was feeding heaps. i have read articleson aros from champions and breeders on Arowanaclub.com. and they have reported that colour development is not just age. colour development on arowana is related to size of the arowana, of course maturity plays a party but they noticed that the faster the arowana grows, the faster the colour comes out. so i guess i dont regulate their eating. i dont wanna spoil them with live food, but i will feed as much as they will eat in a day. generally speaking.

thats impssible. pellets are refined foods, its like taking all the meat, drying it so the % of protein vs weight is gonna be higher, but really, if you look at massivore for example, its generic stuff, of course im sure hikari has some patented stuff in there to help absorption, growth etc, but if you take FD shrimp, its just normal shrimp but cos its no water at all, the protein is higher in % due to weight and protein ration being skewed by the dry nature of the food......... ok i confused myself there, but i wont retype:D

not that expensive. i used to breed them. easy to breed, just takes time, but not much effort. i had 4 to 5 takeaway containers filled with them , pure worms, nothing else, frozen ready for my rtg. freezer broke down one day, they all went off lol but, may start breeding them again, just a few for myself. no more reptiles exc3ept leopard geckos and they really dont eat that much

yay i have convinced everone of massivore goodnesS:D david and I got obsessed with them, well i did thats for sure a couple years back. finally they come in!! massivore is fantastic!

impulse visit paid off:D

yeah thast plenty really, a massivore is usppose dto be a 3.5 cm gold fish equivalent. its massive! no punn intended.... 8) anyways, stuffing is fine,. my aro still chews at times and doesnt always eat the pellets or what ever i stuff in there, but it gets the odd massivore/hikari/silkworm bits. thats fenough i fed it gold fish today to get its appetite and agro goin! locusts and mealworms, fasting day tomorrow. i have added mealworms into its menu! i bought 2000 of them. thinking i should start breeding them again in small scale peryhaps

i think that pond would be awesome:D lol lets bring on global warming!@!@ i want a pond!

i guess its variety. IMO and what i have seen, is that it makes a difference. FD krill just adds to the nitriotinal value of what they eat. also maybe we overestimate what aro needs perhaps?

something like this:D maybe with out the chinese writing lol

wow that discus tank! insane!!! wow that river set up, insane!!

fair call. with silk worm, i stuffed into prawn and he ate it, no problems. what you will fi nd is that, even though most come out, he still gets a good part of it, enough to give him the goodies i guess. your diet is fine. i would keep feeding pellets, and prawns focus. i would stuff massivore into prawns, much easier, massivores are not designed for aros i believe and not as easy to get themto eat it. i jsut decided to stuff prawns full time, FD krill currently AHT but im getting HIKARI, i just found out hikari FD KRILL actually is enriched with vits as opposed to just plain old FD shrimp from AHT. so AHT i will save for blending into my beefer clown mix when the hikari FD krill arrives. as for live food, i really relaly believe live food stimulates growth, not about the protein, not about the vits in them, thoguh there is a good amount. more the stimulation and n atural instinct kicks in and perhaps hormones are secreted to make them grow, this is what i have found. i will feed live locust 3 to 5 times a week currently. Soon i will feed gold fish 1 to 2 times a week. really a massive variety, high protein is what i did. but fish to fish differs, yours may not want to get as thick as others. but you seem to be doing the right things, pellets, high protein, cant go wrong! i wouldnt even bother with prawns if they eat pellets. i would just do pellets and live food occasionally. Or pellets, prawns and live food.... ideal. also, because its green aro, you are not that focusedon the RED colours. so i would try beef heart strips. Or salmon strips - fillets. its actually cheaper than pellets per Kg!!

2cm a month, that is good growth. i would not complainw tih that, the end of the day. tahts .75 inch a month. thats perty much the best an aro can do. some aro genetecally can do 1inch a month but really, realistically asian aros dont grow that fast in most cases, for 2 to 3 months i got 1 inch a month on my rtg but tapererd off pretty quickly to .75 as well. even champion aros grow .75 inches a month. so i wont be so hard on yourself. but key is to feed them up, i am a HUGE fan of masivore, stuff prawns with massivore and hikari sticks. they girth them up (if you are not already0 but generally, just time, it will get bigger, arowanas generally speaking ALWAYS get longer first then when that tapers, they grow thicker.... Current COULD helpbut really, i would leave it, i would feed it more varied diet. 1) What is the diet of the arowana, total breakdown. Reason is that you should vary diet, I mean you should feed prawn, pellets (if you can stuff the prawn), LIVE FOOD, and my favourite FD Krill/Shrimp. FD Shrimp is 63% protein and has good carotenes in it!! that will fatten them up fast. basically, if you look at a small piece of fd shrimp, you can pretty much say half of that is pure protein!! iwould try that. Live food once or twice a week is good. iw ould contact insect direct and buy 30 medium crix, feed them pellets - and feed 2 to 3 time a week. i have a rule now. prawn and FD krill first, then locusts:D my red though was never fed live food i think and is still semi weary of locusts lol

comeon guys post some picsL:D examples

actually sting ray doesnt taste good cartilidge all over:D

big enough tank, enough food, no problems!~

eyah i guess wasnt that in particular, that style, aro comm is my holy grail. black backgrounds black gravellike mine. really i would take my tank, make the size 4000 litres, awesome filtration, probably ultima filters. then 8 aros,. 1xsilver, 1x black, 1x green, 1x rtg, 2x red, 2xxb (maybe 1x jar) have the whole set. maybe 5000litres:D

http://www.arofanatics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=328691 more aro comms:D

Ill start itoff. Aro Comm with high grade aros and monsters. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a256/dimfer/arowanas%202008/sep08_1921x.jpg posta pic of your dream tank setup