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| Posted | my blue acara beating my silver arowana |
| 19-06-2006 22:15 by mannings |
my blue acara nearly killed my silver arowana by bitting all his fins off my arow doesnt have a tail now and he was looking really bad my arow is about 4in and my blua acara is only 2-3in iv put my arow in with my discus and he is starting to try and eat but his tail is not growing back yet and he is swiming about a bit better now and im treating him with melafix is there anthing else i should do? |
| 19-06-2006 22:26 by robert.pope |
dont be upset mannings ...only this weekend i went to local fish shop who had a large fish (snake head?) almost dead srom a salvo of bites from 2 baby oscar's ! shop was upset as the fish was expencive so it even happens to the professionals
Me thinks arowana should be kept alone  |
| 19-06-2006 22:33 by robert.pope |
sorry to hear your fish is not well
thinking of ya mate! its tough went things go belly up!  |
| 20-06-2006 07:19 by dave cook |
your discus will be stressed out id get him outa there or you will loose your discus |
| 20-06-2006 12:54 by mannings |
i aint upset just p*ss*d off. i might have to sell the blus acara. the arow is swimming a bit better but he trys to eat but he spits it back out and he is starting to look a bit fin. i have ordered a new arow slitely larger so hopefully he will be fine r there anyother fish i can keep with him i wanted a try a siamese tiger fish and a ghost knife will these fish be ok together? |
| 20-06-2006 23:03 by robert.pope |
Mannings do some research on your fish ..........mixing fish can cause so much problems!
what you want 2 arowana's for ? |
| 21-06-2006 00:42 by robert.pope |
Mannings!!
my wife tells me that in her home country in Asia, Arowana are known to be kept singlely !!! there you have it you have been told!!! 
Seriously mannings this is true! |
| 21-06-2006 08:29 by PaddyD |
I would be careful with that mix, as the growth rate of your arrow should be very rapid, while your tiger fish will grow much more slowly, so while they will mix for a while, you may well have problems in a month or so. I feel while the ghost knoife might be ok, the datanoid will have him eventually.
If you do go for a siamese tiger ensure you get a freshwater species like microlepis and not a brackish species. Best advice is to grow your arrowana on to 12" and then start looking for tankmates. |
| 21-06-2006 09:11 by Alan |
Your discus will be fine with this small arowana take a look at
http://www.freshwaterstingray.nl/Frames%20Engels/English.html I'm pretty sure there is a picky on here of a large jardini mixed with stingrays and a shoal of discus it can work. |
| 21-06-2006 09:13 by Alan |
The discus look like the picture of health if you ask me! |
| 21-06-2006 09:13 by Alan |
Here is the picture courtesy of the website I mentioned above.
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| 21-06-2006 09:18 by Alan |
Robert the arows in asia are jardini these are more aggressive than the silver arow from the amazon those from asia also cost a small fortune as the have to be cites registered and micro chipped to prove the are from a fish farm and not the wild. This is not the case for arows from the amazon. |
| 21-06-2006 17:33 by mannings |
hi im not buying another 1 to be kept in the smae tank im buying 1 to beplace the one that is beaten up they will not be kept together |
| 21-06-2006 23:38 by Flying saucer owner |
jardini come from Australia Alan, they are relatively cheap because they are not covered by CITES.
The one in the pic is a Scleropages Formosus, they are the expensive ones. I'd keep the arow in with the Discus Mannings & get it feeding on mealworms. Its will soon put some size on & be ready to go back in with the acara for a re match in next to no time  |
| 21-06-2006 23:45 by mannings |
im not 2 sure it will reach the other tank he is looking really bad now hope he getsb better cant i cant really see it happening
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| 22-06-2006 16:27 by mannings |
my arow has now died but i will be getting a bigger 1 what size 1 should i buy? |
| 22-06-2006 17:53 by chris east |
hi ,buy a big buttikoferii and put it with the acara,that will teach it a lesson....ps ive got 10 biggies for sale...happy hunting |
| 22-06-2006 23:14 by chromis124 |
alan - i know its not your tank. but thats an amazing pic, wish i had that as my background on desktop - the only thing they need is substrate, dont get this "bare" tanks, these peeps need educating alan  |
| 23-06-2006 09:25 by Alan |
Bare bottom is down to the ray it makes keeping pristine water conditions far easier as you do not get a detritus build up so easily on a bare bottom.
Considering the keeper of these fish breeds rays P14 amongst others I would say it is the rest of us that need educating chromis124. Apologise for the boo boo on name that was quite a boo boo. Mannings I wouldn't bother with another arow until you can give it the sort of set up it really needs youngster are not very tough so consider going for one that is at least 10" long. |
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