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hey guys.
well my arrowana is growing like a great white shark.
man do these things have a massive appetite.
he has easy doubled in size since i got him.
hes now one nice looking fish,hes silver colour is so bright,he looks like hes been polished...lol
hes been getting fed a slew of foods too,large shrimp chunks,earthworms,feeders,a stack of pellets,pinkies,he knocked of the biggest fattest woodie yesterday,i could here it being crunched up from outside the tank.
also i got told that he would very rarely go near the bottom of the tank.
this is not the case with my guy,he swims all over the the tank,i got a fake reef along the back of the tank,he goes in one end and comes out the other,i even seen him scoop up some gravel and swish it around,then spurt it back out.
because he is like this,ive decided against putting a catfish in with him(so i passed on the tiger shovelnose).
plus the signs of aggresion he is starting to show,and hes jaws are alreay lined with a wicked set of teeth,he could inflick massive damage.
ive felt the wrath of hes bite,a few times,and hes not even half grown yet.
so yeah me thinks this fella will be fine on his own.

$80.000 Arrowana

I did a google image and came across this little fella.
I suppose you dont hand feed do you?

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yeah ive seen that,the platinum arro.
the guy that owns it now,after i emailed him,him turned down a offer of $120.000us.
the $80.000 thats what he paid for it.
thats alot of bread for a fish.
it is very pleasing to the eye.
yeah im still hand feeding,not for much longer tho.

yea plat silver arows are more around $10,000-$35,000 USD....... most people are doing white tank treatments and selling the off as plats then when they get in ur tank in a month they go back to normal........ good to hear ur aro is doing good!!!!! so i guess ur not doin any other fish in his tank????????

na,even when he ends up in the BIG tank,i rekon ill just keep him alone.
also you know what the cheeky bugger has started doing,biting the end of the intake for my filter.
i think he mite see "leftovers"sticking to it,and as hes so greedy,he bites it off hoping for a few morsels of food..

yea once he gets a little bigger he will beable to snap the intake right off........ i was reading that people have had some that thought there heater was a toy well the fish rip the plug out of the wall and broke the heater in half................. just crazy how strong these fish are.....

yeah i could see 1 doing that.they can put some muscle into it.

We have a double red at work, bout 20" long. It's mad as anything, its in a huge display tank with some channa pulchra and a pair of giant red fin gouramis. We've had to weld a peice of glass as reinforcment due to its rather "radical" feeding style!

yea aros really do like their food!!!!!!! but if u ever get peacock bass u need to put rubber mats down and a rain coat just to feed them!!!!!!! they take so much water out of the tank....... my friend had a vid of them splashing 2 inches of water out of a 240 gallon tank!!!!!!!!!!!! but arows definalty have more power in there bites........

yes i can second that,i copped a wicked bite the other day when fillling the tank back up,he bites a my fingers.
as hes getting big,fast,the bites are getting harder and harder.
but atleast hes happy and doing real well.
at the rate hes growing he will be well over a foot in no time.
as hes size doubles,so is his aggression too.he loves just about all foods,but i think he favorate is feeder fish.
im pretty sure its the thrill of the hunt,getting to chase something down,kill it,then devour it.
i guess it keeps his hunting skills on point.
when we move,ill start breeding cons again,so ive got my own feeders,nice and clean then.
these guys wouldnt have much call for some vegies in there diet would they.