is it okay to just feed silver arowana with pelets and green peas or does it need some live food?

Answer 1

I have always found a mixture to keep any of my fish happy and healthy.

If you have a thing about feeding them live food, buy frozen food, just disperse it in the water to make it look like they are alive.

Answer 2

Arowanas do best with live foods such as feeder guppies( for young arowanas), crickets, and feeder goldfish. To ensure healthy food, i suggest you have a separate tank in which you keep the feeders in and if the feeders are not healthy, you can medicate them. The same goes for the crickets. This serves another purpose, you will always have a food supply. Can you imagine in nature, small fish are eaten by larger fish, so you are not doing anything weird. Some people feed pellets to arowanas, but that is up to you. Good luck.

Answer 3

Arowanas are carnivores, so it may not like the peas that much. Ideally, you want to give it a varied meaty diet. If yours will eat pellets, that's a great staple food, but you want to mix in things like crickets, earthworms, mealworms, bloodworms, shrimp, krill, even frozen fish and seafood from the supermarket. You want to try to use floating food, because that's the normal way for aros to eat - that why their mouth points upward, to eat food at or near the surface, although they will also jump to get food in the air or overhanging vegetation.

You can use feeders sparingly, but these will often dive toward the bottom to hide, making it more difficult for your aro to see or catch them. I would also advise to breed your own feeders if you decide to use them - there's nothing much worse than having your aro get a disease or parasite from an unhealthy batch of feeders.

As your aro grows, you can also add tadpoles, small frogs, and pinkie mice to the diet.

Answer 4

Give it all mixed like some peas one day and live food the next

Answer 5

Gupies, GUpies, GUPIES . . . . and maybe a goldfish now and then . . .