any arowana or stingray owners?

[smokinreefer]

when i had more time and space, i used to keep a lot of freshwater tanks... from 10gallon to 180. planted tanks... predator tanks, discus, plecos, bred dwarf cichlids...

i was wandering around the LFS and saw some nice arowanas and stingrays.

anyone keeping any?

got any pics?

would love to see some.

[Cap'n]

Not yet, but when I get more space I'm going to setup a silver arowana tank. Been doing a bunch of research on the net, very cool fish. Don't think I'm going to go with a stingray though, they always look too big for the tank.

[smokinreefer]

when i first started out i had a silver arowana.
lost it due to jumping.

very cool fish. i used to feed it pieces of meat, beef chicken and fish.
i would dangle the food inches out of the water and let it jump up and snatch the food from my fingers.

if i set up a freshwater tank again, i would like to get an asian arowana.

[Mak]

Originally Posted by smokinreefer

lost it due to jumping.

Think I found out why!!!

Originally Posted by smokinreefer

i would dangle the food inches out of the water and let it jump up and snatch the food from my fingers.

LOL J/K I lost mine like that too. It was probably going after a fly or something

[BiGG-MaC]

I've kept many arowana's within the 6 years i have been keeping fish. i recently bought a black arowana when it was tiny i mean like 2 inches now its about 8 inches. they r great fish

[bluetang]

I had a motoro Sting ray about 6" across for about 1 year. Great animals to own. I dont care what anyone says, you need a custom built tank for these guys. You need a tank that is long and wide. depth isn't a real issue but, they need alot of room to swim. You wouldnt think so because you mainly see them buried in the sand but they actually swim lots. They will do laps for hours, so a long tank is a must. IMO 6ft tank minimum.
They are the most majestic and friendly aquatic animal you will ever own. I could put my fingers in the tank and slash the water a little and it would come up and alow me to pet it on the head, it loved it. it would get so excited that it would spash water everywhere and nearly jump out of the tank.
As far as feeding is concerned, most pet stores have them on feeder fish. I would not recomend this for you. Get one that is young and train it to eat other foods. Fedder gold fish due to the way they are kept(Hundreds per small tank) carry a multiple of diseases and parasites on them. Therefore you will be just transfering these diseases to you animal. This is how mine died. Before it died I had it eating clam meat, dew worms and of couse those dirty little feeder goldfish. Incredible animals

[Invigor]

petland in regina brought a few teacup rays in but when I went there they were all sold :P

I was chattin with the manager there and they go through about 20 discus in a week...scares me to think of who's buying them

[Cap'n]

Originally Posted by Invigor

...scares me to think of who's buying them

Me too. Same with lots of fish.

I'm still in the planning stages for my arowana tamk. What do the experienced owners think of a 6' tank with a 18" square portion divided by eggcrate for convict cichlids (feeders)?

[DOO-E]

A person who can figure out how to breed arrowanas can make a killing. I was talking to a japanese fellow and he said that a gold arrowana is suposed to bring good luck. Well look up the prices of gold arrowanas little ones are 5 grand and big ones are 25 grand. If you could breed them and sell 2 that would pay for the pair.

[StirCrazy]

I always wanted to have an arowana, but I don't feel I could give it a proper tank size to justify my getting it. I actualy feel sorry for them when I see them in LFS in little tiny tank that they can hardly turn around in. now if I could do a 4 or 5000 gal pond and not worry about the birds eating it.. hmmmm

Steve