Color enhancing food for silver aro! 10 points!?

Question

I have a 15cm silver aro. I bought it when it was 9 cm and it has grown the past 2 months into a 15cm silver aro. It has orange dins and it's scales are very shiny. I feed him mucles, shrimp, chicken liver, crab stick and fat free paloni. Please advice some natural food that will enhance it's color. No unatural food like pellets. He does not eat pellets or veggies.

Answer 1

Based on what I've learned from them, most keepers keep them with lights on for 24/7 and feed them crickets served with baby carrots to increase it's moisture for better enhancement of the scale coloration of the silver arowana, but if you can train them to feed on hikari foodsticks/cichlid gold or hikari carvnivore pellets then it's better because it enhances the skin coloration of the arowana and it's healthier than most foods that you can offer to you arowana. Goodluck on that :D

BTW, don't hurry the feeding too much because they can live up to 30+ years, if lucky, 50 years, and can grow up to 5 ft in length in captivity, depends on the dimensions of your tank or pond as well.

Answer 2

It's very clear people talking about veggies have never kept nor have a clue what so ever what an Arowana eats let alone what an Arowana is.  I think so far, you're offering good food choices, but I'd nix that liver just to be safe.  If you'd like an alternative, as I believe he's in a pond of yours, you can TRY frozen cubes possibly, such as bloodworms and brine shrimp cubes.  I don't have a pond like you, but when I kept my South American Arowana like yours in my tanks up until the 24 inch size range, they took very well to freeze dried krill too.

Colors in themselves are going to vary.  What will effect color looks to some degree is your water quality, tank size, pond in your case, and diet.  I think you are one of the few who's doing an outstanding job with your Arowana thus far, but be patient too.  The south american Arowana, even in your pond could take up to 2 years to reach it's full size, and you'll find the color displays you'll see in the older ones, usually peak in the 3-5 year range.  I'd just continue to keep your water quality outstanding and keep up that varied diet.  You can try larger insects as he/she grows too.  Such as grasshoppers, dragonflies, and when they get to about an 18 inch range, you can even use frogs.

To increase your nutritional value of insects like the crickets, grasshoppers and frogs, gut load them before offering.

Answer 3

A la fecura ceunto, bretas oce lentasdo. Que Ves Ce.

Answer 4

i know you said that he dont eat veggies but have you tried cucumber. it works a treat.

Answer 5

Try insects such as small crickets and wingless fruit flies, it's pretty close to what they'd eat in the wild and readily available from any reptile specialist store.

Are you sure its a silver aro? They don't have orange fins. Have you got a pic?