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    keeping arowana in a plant tank

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    saw sam yick in simei keeping arowana in a plant tank. anyone does that before? care to give advice?
    thank

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    seen this question been asked over and over again in arofanatics.. i guess, the simplest way is to create a low maintenance tank suitable for arrowana.. the key here is to choose plants which r hardy, dun require much light and of coz need less co2 injection and i oso guess, the most difficult thing to consider is the maintanence.. no shrimps, no algae eater can escape the appetite of an arrowana.. (maybe a big pleco)

    though, I never done such a tank (but defintely thght of once ) my plan would be the use of all echinodorus since they require very little light.. and of coz used for cushioning if the fish decides to ram himself onto the wall

    if u do the tank, make sure u let us know.. guess many of the members here r keen to see the results

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    Heard ... you have to train your arrowana to eat dry food when small if you want to put arrowana in planted tank


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    Hi All,

    I have been keeping a panda red in a planyed tank for almost 6 months. Now I'm setting up a 5ft planted and this round, I'm a bit more siow.....I'm intending to put 2 aro in it. Ok, here are some tips for those interested, you may not like the idea, but it works for me:

    Tips
    1)Choose those fast swimmer eg cardinal tetras, pencil fish, SAE, etc BUT prepare to lose about 10 to 20% of these to the aro. Some are fast but stupid.

    2)You must have lots of "sleeping" place for your small fishes. I have almost a third of my tank grown with cork-screw glass. ( Sorry, I'm quite bad with plant names), A thick portion wth MM, other than that, you can plant ricca, anything you like. 1 observation - during the daytime, all the fishes will be swimming around asking you for food, wch is normal, once it it dark (even if you switch on your aquarium lights) the tank is like a ghost town with only the aro patrolling up and down.

    3)The planted tank must be setup with all the small fishes first, let them and the plants "settle" in before introducing the aro. This process is about 4 months.

    4)DO NOT intoduce any small fish after the aro is in...They are sure GONER.

    5)Make sure the small fish is well fed twice a day so that at night they go and hide or "sleep" instead of swimming around.

    I have a piece of drift to keep my 200 malayan shrimps. I also have 5 puffers to slow down the snails from increasing.

    Lastly, you might think that I feed my aro with dry food, NO. I feed it with frogs, mkt prawns, aquaone, beef, chicken and pork. No joke, I really feed all my aro with these and I feed only on alternate day.

    I have 2 DIY co2 supplying co2 to the plants 24hrs a day. No problem to all my fishes and aro. Lighting is pure sunlight as the tank is in the balcony. Filter is a simple DIY powerhead into a overhead ticker system.

    Well, some of my setups are against the planted rules but......everybody is happy. I will try to ask a friend to take some pics for me, a picture paints a thousand words.

    Cheers

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    My opinion:

    same thing: any fish that is larger than aro's mouth is safe unless your arow turns out to be aggressive, used to keep with discus until it jumped out.

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    aro being top level fish, most of the time, they don't look down. so bottom feeders are fine. eg: farlowella, cory's, loaches.

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    I saw a picture once of a nice low maintainance aro planted tank. Mainly Anubias and java ferns amonst large rocks and drift wood.
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    My opinion is that arowana a being top level fish, there need to be sufficient space for it to swim around. So plants that grow upwards are going to cause problem as the big fish's swimming space will be severely curtailed unless u do pruning regluarly.

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    On 4/12/2002 1:15:55 AM

    Hi All,

    I have been keeping a panda red in a planyed tank for almost 6 months. Now I'm setting up a 5ft planted and this round, I'm a bit more siow.....I'm intending to put 2 aro in it. Ok, here are some tips for those interested, you may not like the idea, but it works for me:

    Tips
    1)Choose those fast swimmer eg cardinal tetras, pencil fish, SAE, etc BUT prepare to lose about 10 to 20% of these to the aro. Some are fast but stupid.

    2)You must have lots of "sleeping" place for your small fishes. I have almost a third of my tank grown with cork-screw glass. ( Sorry, I'm quite bad with plant names), A thick portion wth MM, other than that, you can plant ricca, anything you like. 1 observation - during the daytime, all the fishes will be swimming around asking you for food, wch is normal, once it it dark (even if you switch on your aquarium lights) the tank is like a ghost town with only the aro patrolling up and down.

    3)The planted tank must be setup with all the small fishes first, let them and the plants "settle" in before introducing the aro. This process is about 4 months.

    4)DO NOT intoduce any small fish after the aro is in...They are sure GONER.

    5)Make sure the small fish is well fed twice a day so that at night they go and hide or "sleep" instead of swimming around.

    I have a piece of drift to keep my 200 malayan shrimps. I also have 5 puffers to slow down the snails from increasing.

    Lastly, you might think that I feed my aro with dry food, NO. I feed it with frogs, mkt prawns, aquaone, beef, chicken and pork. No joke, I really feed all my aro with these and I feed only on alternate day.

    I have 2 DIY co2 supplying co2 to the plants 24hrs a day. No problem to all my fishes and aro. Lighting is pure sunlight as the tank is in the balcony. Filter is a simple DIY powerhead into a overhead ticker system.

    Well, some of my setups are against the planted rules but......everybody is happy. I will try to ask a friend to take some pics for me, a picture paints a thousand words.

    Cheers
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    Chris, sunlight won't get algae meh? You mean you feed it with raw diced chicken and pork? Wah your aro eat good stuff sia.

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