Food for life, food for Arowana!

I think it's best to share how i kept the live food for my Aro. Perhaps it gives the idea to those who wanna kept an arowana at home, that keeping arowana is not just keeping a fish, you'll have to deal with the live foods for it as well, if you wanna have a happy fish of course. Some arowanas might have been trained to eat pellets, and taking care of such aro would be a breeze. All the necessary vitamins are ready in those pellets, such as Hikari sticks and so on.

But my aro is a different story. I tried to starved it for more than 2 weeks, still not eating up pellets, and even went for a hunger strike after that! tried it a couple of time, with no luck, so i give up. My aro seems to be very picky about food, which resulting me to have some variety of foods for it.

So after the jump, are the live foods that i bought, and kept for my aro:-

Bigger home for Aro (and turtles).

Just would like to archive a quick update on my Arowana's tank. My inital tank setup for my XB arowana was the tank given by my dad, with measurements of 3 x 1.5 x 2 ft. It was okay for the juvenile aro, but since i was planning for a 25 years of lifespan for my aro, the tank will definitely need an upgrade sooner or later.

The initial tank setup. The tank that started everything. It has a simple overhead filter, and i run one extra powerhead with aeration. 

So during the last CNY, there was a great offer by my nearby LFS (local fish shop) for a 5 x 1.5 x 3 ft tank. So the opportunity was grabbed, and so my aro gets a bungalow. lol.

The passion for Aro

It was during the late weeks of December 2012, when my dad decided to clear the backyard of our home. It was then i noticed an old aquarium laying there without any purpose, except for taking up the storage space. A glimpse of memory flashes through my mind, on how when i was a little kid, my dad used to have a silver arowana (on a bigger tank), and how me and my dad used to go to the local fish shop, bought some mealworms, crickets and later baby frogs, and give it to the arowana for it to have a feast on. It was great, until a couple of years later when the grown up arowana (i think about 2 feet long) jumped out of the aquarium late at night, only for us to discover the dead fish in the morning on the carpet.