Help!! Aro. Eating Problem!

Originally Posted by ydolphin

believe AC= Activated Carbon

hi bro.,

Thanks for enlightening and m sure ur rite about it since the advise to me was to stop the medication!

cheers,
David T

Originally Posted by tagore

active carbon is used to remove impurities...
for example, if you dosed medications and the fish is better, by putting active carbon, it will absorb the medications in the water. It must be removed afterwards, because when overloaded, the carbon will transfer the absorbed medications back to the water.

the safest is still Market Prawn (MP) but it is tough to train the aro..
my aro still eat pui eat pui Superworm dont say MP...

Cricket from LFS feeds on Oatmeal and is quite clean.. I dun feed dead ones found in the pack to him only healthy one..

also my naughty aro now bite me when he is hungery or whenever i walk pass the tank...even when i already fed him 10 sw

hi,

Appreciate for enlightening! MP huh, gee.. rather tedious isnt it? have to remove the shells especially its head then wash thoroughly, but I suppose if that's wat the aro. wants! haiz...

Ya ya.. my aro. oso spits both the Mealworms and i tried One piece of SW also same outcome! Aiyu really head and heartache man!

Last resort then try crickets lol, what I'll do next is start putting Vitamins for its appetite and still try to train it to eat Mealworm or SW then see how it goes...
Cross my fingers it'll work!

cheers,
David Tan

[KANCE]

Originally Posted by DavidT

hi,

what I'll do next is start putting Vitamins for its appetite and still try to train it to eat Mealworm or SW then see how it goes...
Cross my fingers it'll work!

cheers,
David Tan

this may helps, just do 30% of water change wif AGE WATER n add some Vtamins, take out all uneaten food immediately and try every alternate days, It shd be eating soon, rest worry

Originally Posted by ydolphin

Once I had a fish that exhibited the same behaviour, a perch which probably injured it's throat after trying to swallow an oversized goldfish. For the next few days, it had trouble swallowing anything and when it tries, there was the gill flaring action and food spitting. What I did was to isolate the guy and put in some salt and after abt a week, the guy tried to feed again though it still had trouble swallowing. What I did was to try 'soft food' eg. mp, fish meat etc to make it a less painful process down the gullet.

Not sure if your aro is suffering from the same problem though.....

hi,

well, that was what I thought of too since the aro's reaction to the food was evident! and tats y I started medication on it for two occasions and several sessions oredi, plus two different types too!

till today, it still shows the same symptoms which I do hope is not due to its throat since it has oredi been two weeks now! Well, unless there's something poked on its throat?!.... besides that, all it was fed b4 the problem started was Tetra-Pellets and occasionally Tetra-Krills.

Anyway, I really appreaciate that you shared ur experience and diagnosis to the problem. I can only pray and hope that I'll b able to get it to eat something normal again!!

cheers,
David T

Originally Posted by KANCE

this may helps, just do 30% of water change wif AGE WATER n add some Vtamins, take out all uneaten food immediately and try every alternate days, It shd be eating soon, rest worry

hi,

Thanks again. Will do it ASAP and hope it'll work this time round!

David T

[Aroboy II]

Since you still cycling your tank, feed your aro sparingly till your tank is cycled!

Originally Posted by Aroboy II

Since you still cycling your tank, feed your aro sparingly till your tank is cycled!

hi,

gee.. tat would not b a problem since its not eating well at all! haiz.. but you've brought up another problem for me to stress on...

I wonder if the Aro will ever be ready for the new tank since it should be weak after going through the sessions of medication and Not eating well! The last thing I would want to do is give it another Shock! That would likely claim its life ya!

so, i guess the tank would have ample time to be cycled thoroughly then...
Thanks for the advise

cheers,
David T

Try softer food like frogs..meat etc...SW have hard shells...No worries your aro will be fine

Originally Posted by StraightAro

Try softer food like frogs..meat etc...SW have hard shells...No worries your aro will be fine

hi,

Thanks for your advise and suggestion, will consider doing that but as of yesterday it seem that my Aro. is getting used to the Mealworms. I'm keeping my fingers crossed still that it will continue to do so... but it's only taking at most 3pieces only the whole day.

oh btw, when you refer to Meat, which sort would you feed the aro.? and do you have to clean it properly b4 feeding? many thanks

cheers,
David T