gotchocmilk39
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Mar 3, 2011
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Here is the story, my friend has a home business selling fish and corals. He ordered two silver arowanas from his whole seller but the customer never showed up and he is now going on a family vacation. He has long gotten out of keeping fresh water fish and has been into saltwater for sometime so he has no room for these fish. Not wanting to loose them he asked me to take care of them. I have only about a year or two with keeping fish. My tanks consist of a 20 gal long South American themed tank with a male apistogramma cockatoo with 5 tetras, grape wood stump, sand/ coacoa nut fiber, peace lillys and water lettuce. The filter is a zoomed 501 turtle canister filter. My other tank is another 20 gal long with one unknown 2.5-3 inch african cichlid and 4 inch blue lobster with sand, slate, and peace lillys. This tank has a aquael 30 hang on the banck filter.
I have a tank divider in the second tank with the cichlid and lobster separating the two arowanas from them. The arowanas are under/or at 2 inches and one still has a yoke sac on it. We did what we could to accumate them and they are swiming good. I tried to feed them some new life tetra A +a .5mm sinking but they dont seem interested. I quickly did a little research on them and found they are not hard to keep but for my situation I may have to keep them or he is going to find another buyer. From what I have explained, are there any foods that I may need to try or is there something im doing wrong? I know a huge tank is needed for when they get bigger if I even keep them. This is why I stick to small fish.
I have a tank divider in the second tank with the cichlid and lobster separating the two arowanas from them. The arowanas are under/or at 2 inches and one still has a yoke sac on it. We did what we could to accumate them and they are swiming good. I tried to feed them some new life tetra A +a .5mm sinking but they dont seem interested. I quickly did a little research on them and found they are not hard to keep but for my situation I may have to keep them or he is going to find another buyer. From what I have explained, are there any foods that I may need to try or is there something im doing wrong? I know a huge tank is needed for when they get bigger if I even keep them. This is why I stick to small fish.
