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Do they live in packs or shoals in the wild? I thought I heard somewhere that they stay in groups. If so, how big would the groups be?
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Posted 18 September 2004 - 10:35 AM
From what i have read, they would only form packs if in a very cramped area. In the wild they are more solitary.
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Posted 18 September 2004 - 08:37 PM
in my tank i had 2 and they swam together but one killed the other. i did go to a petstore and they had like 10-15 black arowanas all swimming together. so they might school in the wild or they might be solitary u will never know unless you go to the amazon and watch the silvers and blacks swim 
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Posted 18 September 2004 - 11:36 PM
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Posted 19 September 2004 - 02:38 AM
All the footage of the ones I have seen in the wild shows them as solitary animals, only coming together to breed. They may 'hang around' together but they do not school like sardines.
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Posted 19 September 2004 - 12:21 PM
QUOTE (Peckoltia @ Sep 19 2004, 01:38 AM)
All the footage of the ones I have seen in the wild shows them as solitary animals, only coming together to breed. They may 'hang around' together but they do not school like sardines.
Look at some of Jon Rare's videos from his massive main tank, the one he had a Golden Gar in. The fleet of Arowanas flying by is intense!
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Posted 19 September 2004 - 03:01 PM
arowanas will sometimes school when young, although this is probably more shoaling than schooling. when they get older or even past their size of 4-5" or so, they go about the rest of their lives as solitary animals. very cool fishes. the African arow, although more closely related to the arapaima than the arowanas, actually remains in the next for a period in their early lives and is protected by the parents (it may just be the male, cant remember off the top of my head). --
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Posted 20 September 2004 - 05:26 PM
all the pics of breeding ponds i asia i have seen it looked as though they did not hang together it was more like they were in the same restricted yet quite large area but no shoaling.
as for the (real) wild i would not know.
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as for the (real) wild i would not know.
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Posted 04 October 2004 - 08:09 AM
They;re solidatary unless its a pair.
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