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Spotted Arowana - Bukit Indah

Spotted Arowanas
May 1, 2007
There are a few types of Spotted Arowanas that are originally from Australia (eg. Australian Gold, Aus-Pearl Arowana, Northern or Southern Barrumundi). Australian Arowanas have seven layers of scales on each side compared to five of the Asian Arowanas. The Leichardti has spots on each scale and fins hence the common name, Spotted Arowana. The Jardini (Pearl Arowana) on the other hand is often passed off as an Asian Arowana since little difference may be seen at their early stages (between 0-8 months).

These types of Arowanas are known to be the most aggressive one of all. They eat anything that they can fit in their mouth (insects, crickets, centipedes, feeder fish,prawns, krill, beefheart, chickenheart, and Hikari Pellets too). Both the Scleropages jardinii and S. leichardtii are very hardy fish. If fed enough they will grow extremely fast. Most have learned to take frozen and dry foods. They require a large tank, similar to their Asian cousins.

Since they tend to eat all these kinds of food you should change 25% of the water at least once every week to two weeks. Large fish tend to produce high level nitrate and ammonia causing pH to fluctuate.

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