So yea. Remember how I said last night I was full. Fully full full with the fullness of being oh so very full?

Would the smart thing be to, knowing how very full you are, to take in a 16" rainbow arowana that's missing one eye, so it doesn't become chum for a giant salt water shark?

Wanna guess what happened at the former Big Al's store tonite? I apparently thought it was the smart thing to do. Which is a sure sign I have brain worms. Also his beat to hell tank mate Uwaru buddy.

I know! It's a new definition of full!

Or something.

I must have had a severe case of the brain worms too, because I agreed to find another home for a 16" pacu and another 18" red tailed cat shovelnose combination.

Wow. Even though you are FULL it was the right thing to do.

Where is the line between wright and wrong? If you are truely too full to take on more fish there is a thin line as to if you are really saving the fish and putting it in a better situation,

True. IMO I think it would be better than being chum.

I know some things need to eat live things, and I'm okay with that as that's what the animals do in the wild. But, to take in people's fish that outgrew their tanks only to turn them into food for some big ass shark is wrong in my book. Even more so if the fish is just going to be chopped up and then frozen for later. There's a food store in the same shopping center, go buy some cheap fish there or find somewhere to get bulk frozen shark food. At the very least, don't put the beat up fish in a tank that the store manager "jokingly" calls the chum tank.

It's apparently a very common thing at the store tho, since the one sales guy who helped bag the arowana went and got one of the other sales guys who was desperate to find someone to take his pacu and rtc. Dude had to "help" carry stuff to the car so the store manager wouldn't bitch him out if he heard I was going to help him.

As for the arowana I called in a favor and the fishy manager at the petsmart hooked me up with some hardcore pond filter. A Laguna something or other, and I managed to free up a 150g livestock tub. Tub needs to cycle for a few days and seriously warm up, hose water is *COLD* but I got some comets on the ready to help with that too.

Right now I had some sliders in a 55g that got pulled out and into one of the kiddy pools, he's in the 55 now. He's at that stage where it's bordering on just too big but isn't yet. The way the kids were feeding him shrimp tho, that will change in a week or two for sure.

Rainbow Aro?? Theres no such thing. If your in the uk then he may be a asian but if your in the U.S.A then hes probably a silver, african, jardini, or leo.
Pics please

This is my first time dealing with aros, and that's what I was told it was. They had a few others in tanks that were 4in labeled the same with the same coloration.

Since I couldn't find anything specific about rainbow anywhere I was figuring it was either a poorly colored blue an oddly colored silver, or (if it's possible) offspring from a silver and a blue.

Since Mike asked for pics of him for the potm contest I'm gonna hold off till then, but his coloration doesn't match up with the pics I've seen online and in the books I have. The blues are much darker, the silvers much more silvery.

Heck, it may even just be the diet he was on before I got him.

Hes probably a jardini

PICS

Pics yes I agree wy!

None of the eyes matched up in the Scleropages which is why I skipped them.

The color morph you found is very similar to this one, just has more of a green than blue.

Here's the scales.


Here's the good side:


Here's why he was gonna end up as chum:

Its a very nice female silver arowana. Your lucky to get one like that.

Nice fish and a good save from the chum bucket. Maybe they make small eye patches...