Here's another photo that I think should be stickied...

Brie

Brie

Small Fish
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Nov 20, 2004
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Arowana! Now I admit, I work for a Petco, as their Fish and reptile "specialist". But unlike most petco employees, I actually give a S@$#, and have been keeping fish most of my life, only work for them because its a job, ya know? Whenever I order out of the norm, large fish(IE arowana, knives, shovelnose cats, etc), I always put as much info as I can on one of the little ID cards, such as 100 PLUS GAL TANKS ONLY, etc and tell people NO, sorry, you cant buy this.. I can't say I've seen any other petco, petsmart or other store do this. So WARNING: LARGE TANKS ONLY!

 

Brie

Brie

Small Fish
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Nov 20, 2004
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Originally posted by knifefishfreack
i have never had that kind of arowana but if it is like black and silver arowanas doesnt it take a long time to grow. The good thing about arowanas is there price so people with small tanks that think it looks cool are discouraged to buy it.
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Thats an Asian Green, but a healthy Silver will get even longer, just not as heavy bodied. A fish store in my area has a 15+ year old(or older.. They had it when I myself was around 10 years old, and that was 11 years ago), 4ft Silver, that lives in a 10ft long custom tank at the top of one of their fish rooms.. A healthy Aro with room to grow and well fed can grow as much as 20" in a year.
 

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wayne

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Reply to Briorium - what do you think happens to all those large, unsellable, unwanted returned fish? Unless they are clearly sellable, they are destroyed after a while. Do you think there's any market at all for returned deformed irrdescents or oscars with HLLE?
 

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