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i think all fish benefit from a varied diet. if you only feed one thing you run the risk of nutritional deficiencies, and possibly the fish becoming unwilling to eat anything else, therefore starving if it ever changes hands.

i have no experience with arowanas, tho, so this may not apply at all...

i have been i guess spoiling my jardini arowana, by giving him frozen blood worm cubes as his main food source.

that is really the only thing i have been feeding him, can any health problems occur from feeding him this? i was thinking about crickets maybe, he is not a shy eatter, and is very aggressive to anything that touches the water.

also the same question with my silver arowana, as i hand feed him bloodworms as well.

Even small arowanas should get a varied diet, they are opportunistic surface feeders and can be given feeder fish, small mammals (occasionally) such as baby mice available from reptile stores, crickets, mealworms, waxworms,shrimp,earthworms, glassworms, various non-toxic frogs, and the cubes intended for predators such as angelfish and discus should be eagerly accepted.Ive had some luck offering them reptomin sticks and tetra carnivore sticks too.

You have to offer such foods regularly ,whether they eat them or not, it sound like your aro has become habituated and you must make every effort to make him used to new foods.little tricks like wounding feeder items before they go in the water usually send aro's crazy.Yeah i know its gross, but it works.

The main problem with using frozen foods is that a lot of the b vitamins , especially thiamin tends to degrade quickly when frozen. This can be easily rectified by putting about a quarter of a tablet of brewers yeast into a feeder fish about once a month.