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Date: August 25 2000
Type: Red Tail Golden Arowana from Indonesia Rainbow Farm
Purchased: S$298 from Clementi Florist and Aquarium in Jan 2000 at 6 inch.
Camera: Sony Digital Mavica 10x
Current size: 10-11 inch
Diet: frogs, market prawn, crickets and any insects I can catch at home.
Tank size: 4 X 2 X 2 feet tank with overhead filter and normal aquarium lighting. 4 feet = 1.2 metres.
Tank mates: Blue lobster and "sucker fish".
Location: My room of cos!
Comments:
A very fussy eater. Now and then it can go on without food for days when I have no time to buy its favourite crickets. Maybe that's why its growth rate is not to my expectations. Somehow it prefers prawn meat to the frogs. But I prefer to feed it with frogs as it will help its growth and frogs can stay alive up to more than a week with proper environment, whereas crickets usually die within 2 days from fighting and sometimes ants attack. I dont feed it with small fishes due to the threat of parasite inherence.
Its gills plate has turned golden but only one or two scales on its 5th row show signs of golden. One of its barbs was damaged (bent) when I bought it, and recovered fully only recently. Occasionally likes to jump around at night when lights are off and suffers missing scales as a result. Usually takes about 3-4 weeks for the scales to grow back fully.
Likes to follow me around when I move from one side of tank to the other. Sometimes it peeks at me slogging in front of the computer. It is always on the lookout of my another tank of goldfishes nearby, another of its favourite food I guess. Usually after a meal, it will rest a the bottom for sometime. Its most active period is after 12 midnight (just like me!) where it will swim around the tank endlessly. Its favourite passtime is chasing after the "tireless cleaner of my tank", the sucker fish and rip its tails off. There were already two casualties. Once the tails recovered, it will nip at them again. I guess it is more like a playful prank than any menace intended.
