My aro - RTG (24 inch)
is SOO Fussy!!
Every month or two, it decides it wants a certain food, and only a certain food. its up to me to figure out what it wants.
heres an example:
jan - mar, it did not eat, nothing would please it.
april, voracious appetite, eating everything -prawn, pellets, feeders, slices of cod & snapper, squid.. anything I put in the tank it ate..
By may, it was done eatting and would accept nothing.
June and July, it had a couple prawn, but mostly snubbed everything I put in the tank.
Aug-Oct, really didn't eat anything.
Now its eatting feeders again, still snubs everything else.
When you see it go for months without eating, its kind of.. Some aro owners freak out and start taking more extreme measures to get their aro to eat..
I'm kind of.. Ok fish, I know you can eat that, if you dont want too, fine the other fish will..
Sometimes its frustrating because soo picky, dancing at the front of the tank begging for food but then.. noo not that.. So I don't cater to the aro anymore.. I hope it eats what I put in the tank, sometimes it will..
This aro, 9 years old, seems to be every three months it pigs out..
I've had it for years, its healthy, active and seems ok so I dont worry when its not eatting.