Help please..!

Hi all,
Again a thread to do with my aro... He is 13-14 inch hbrtg!
He is eating very little I try prawn and morio worms still eat very little for a long time now...
Lately he is very lazy and when I throw worm in he slowly swims to eat then spit and sometimes just not even eat..
Two days ago I went to feed tank and saw he had a big belly and my red tail shark was gone... He ate my shark!!
and he doesn't even react to worm... What shall I do ??

I have had him since 7 inch, he use to eat really well!
Tank Mate is odoe pike, Indo dat, flag tail, clown loaches
All fish is smaller than him...
He has never had live fish before and now he ate my shark... What shall I do ?

Thanks! Swarsh

[andy lau]

Aro will swallow whatever smaller size than him...

Yeah but the problem is, he doesnt want any food !
He only eat 1 or 2 morio worm a day before... and when he was on prawns he only had half of 1 prawn...
When he was smaller he use to eat atleast 5 worm in morning and 5+ at night feeding...
Now at 14inch he only eat 1-2 a day.. sometimes nothing...

[Dave57]

water parameters? something wrong? time to do water change? Water filtration?
Environment? something spooked it?

We're not psychics here. Can't solve your problem from reading what you wrote.

[stargazer]

Ever tot of feeding live feeders from now on?

[harrysoo]

try doing more frequent water change, might increase appetite

Tank size is 5ftx2x1.5, around 110 gallon~
Nitrite - 0-0.25ppm
Nitrate - 0-2 ppm
Ammonia - 0-0.25ppm
pH - 7.86
I do 30% water change every week~
I'm in UK and we can't buy feeders here... and I prefer feeding morio or prawns for aro..

Is he just really picky ? :S
Try feeding now but he not interested, put in a floating morio and he looks at it then swim away... a clown loach got the morio and then he go down to snatch from clown loach...
But when my Pike charge for morio to eat he doesn't even care, too lazy to fight for food?

Thanks

Sorry double post, more info on aro

When I first got him I feed crickets, good eater 7-8 in morning and 7-8 at night.
Then changed to morio worm and he would eat 4-5 morning and 4-5 night.
Then once he hit around 12 inch, he started to stop going for food like he use to (no more dash/charge for food) and then only eat 2-3 morio one day and now sometimes he doesnt even want morio worm... changed his diet to prawn by starving and he would only eat half a prawn or so a day...

Don't know what to do :S

[FanAromatic]

Lost appetite and stop eating can be many reasons, and is quite common for Aro. What you can do is observe and have more patience, maintain good water parameters, frequent wc. Just don't stress out. Hahaha....

Yeah, I been told they can lose appetite sometimes.
But this has been going on for 5-6 months... I try to observe, but hard to see what is happening.
He use to sit in the corner a lot but now it is getting better and he hardly sits down anymore, swimming more frequent but appetite still very bad.

Makes me very stressed ah!