Help!! Aro. Eating Problem!

Dear Aro. lovers,

I've got a Panda Chilli-Red Aro. around 25cm housed in a 1.5x1x1 tank till todate but I've just got a 5x2x2 tank and cycling it. Before this, my aro. has been feeding on Tetra Aro. pellets and occassionally Tetra Krills which it likes very much. However, two weeks ago or slightly longer it has stopped eating the pellets and todate even the krills.

As for the condition, it started by spitting-out the pellets having chewed it and later not even taking in the pellets at the beginning. As for the krills, the aro. was eating for at least two to three days before completely rejecting it too!

What I observed during the feeding of the krills was that, when chewing the krills, it's gill plates would open rather wide and seem to be choking or something is preventing it from swallowing the food. Thus, my first diagnosis was that something is wrong with its throat. So I asked around and some LFS inform me that its throat would have been injured.

With that in mind I started the aro. on medication. I used OCEAN's Internal Bacteria Away for three sessions (ie.8days) during which it still refuse to eat the pellets and krills. So, following that I then decided to stop the medication an change its diet. I got Mealworms to feed it and happily seeing that it consumed 5pieces on its first serving and the problem was solved!

However, to my agony, the same problem arised again, when the aro. seemed choking when biting on the worms before spitting them out! what freaks me the most is the way it's gill plates and jaws opens frantically in rejection and go darting around!! So, it left me with no choice but to put it on medication again and this time I've chnged to Aquamed's Furan-3 for the past 2 days.

Having described my dilema, I would like to ask for your most invaluable advise to provide me with an effective treatment or diagnosis to my problem. I sincerely hope to hear from anyone ASAP as I've runned out of solution already!


Thanking you in advance for your time and kind assisstance.
P/s: Through-out this duration the water condition is as follows:
Temperature: 28.5 - 30degrees
Ph Value: 6.5-7
Ammonia levels: within acceptable levels

With regards,
David Tan

[KANCE]

try froggies n c how?? STOP MEDICATION,PUT AC

Originally Posted by KANCE

try froggies n c how?? STOP MEDICATION,PUT AC

hi Kance,

Wow! Thanks you for ur quick response. I'll give it a try, although I'm soo considering on feeding it Crickets, which I'm very relunctantly to do so knowing and hearing of the consequences for doing so! but many LFS say that is aros most liked food..

cheers,
David Tan

Originally Posted by DavidT

Dear Aro. lovers,

I've got a Panda Chilli-Red Aro. around 25cm housed in a 1.5x1x1 tank till todate but I've just got a 5x2x2 tank and cycling it. Before this, my aro. has been feeding on Tetra Aro. pellets and occassionally Tetra Krills which it likes very much. However, two weeks ago or slightly longer it has stopped eating the pellets and todate even the krills.

As for the condition, it started by spitting-out the pellets having chewed it and later not even taking in the pellets at the beginning. As for the krills, the aro. was eating for at least two to three days before completely rejecting it too!

What I observed during the feeding of the krills was that, when chewing the krills, it's gill plates would open rather wide and seem to be choking or something is preventing it from swallowing the food. Thus, my first diagnosis was that something is wrong with its throat. So I asked around and some LFS inform me that its throat would have been injured.

With that in mind I started the aro. on medication. I used OCEAN's Internal Bacteria Away for three sessions (ie.8days) during which it still refuse to eat the pellets and krills. So, following that I then decided to stop the medication an change its diet. I got Mealworms to feed it and happily seeing that it consumed 5pieces on its first serving and the problem was solved!

However, to my agony, the same problem arised again, when the aro. seemed choking when biting on the worms before spitting them out! what freaks me the most is the way it's gill plates and jaws opens frantically in rejection and go darting around!! So, it left me with no choice but to put it on medication again and this time I've chnged to Aquamed's Furan-3 for the past 2 days.

Having described my dilema, I would like to ask for your most invaluable advise to provide me with an effective treatment or diagnosis to my problem. I sincerely hope to hear from anyone ASAP as I've runned out of solution already!


Thanking you in advance for your time and kind assisstance.
P/s: Through-out this duration the water condition is as follows:
Temperature: 28.5 - 30degrees
Ph Value: 6.5-7
Ammonia levels: within acceptable levels

With regards,
David Tan

You sound exactly like me when i first bought my Panda Gold!! hahahaha
dun worry , bro kance is absolutely right.....

dun medicate!!!!!

If u feed cricket... he still dun eat..


do this.... cut off all the pointy things.. and throw it in.....

Originally Posted by tagore

If u feed cricket... he still dun eat..


do this.... cut off all the pointy things.. and throw it in.....

hi bro,

Thank you for your feedback and encouragement, that really put my mind at ease alot hearing from a person who has experienced it!

So, can I assume that the aro you mentioned oso refused to eat most types of food till you gave it crickets? speaking of which, appreciated the tip on dismemberng of limbs b4 feeding. More importantly, is it true that after feeding on crickets, the aro would not eat other kinds of food?! also, aren't you afraid of diseases contracted by them?!


Oh! how about Feeder Fishes and live Prawns, did you try them? Hope you don't mind me bombarding you with so many questions ... I'm still new at this hobby!

Hope to hear from you soon and many thanks

cheers,
David T

Originally Posted by KANCE

try froggies n c how?? STOP MEDICATION,PUT AC

hi KANCE,

it's me again. Excuse my ignorance, although tried to find out what AC refers to but invain le! so, could you let me know what AC means?....

Many thanks and hope to hear from you again soon.

cheers,
David T

[ydolphin]

Originally Posted by DavidT

hi KANCE,

it's me again. Excuse my ignorance, although tried to find out what AC refers to but invain le! so, could you let me know what AC means?....

Many thanks and hope to hear from you again soon.

cheers,
David T

believe AC= Activated Carbon

Originally Posted by DavidT

hi KANCE,

it's me again. Excuse my ignorance, although tried to find out what AC refers to but invain le! so, could you let me know what AC means?....

Many thanks and hope to hear from you again soon.

cheers,
David T

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

[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.....