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Silver Arowana
Age of Aquariums Freshwater Fish Silver Arowana - Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
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Silver arowana
Photo taken at Wharf Aquatics
The picture above shows two semi-adult fish (at about 18"/45cm long),
which had been raised together and appeared to be a pair
- adults will not always share a tank peacefully in this way! ...

Silver arowana
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Silver arowana
Alternative/Formal Name
Binomial name Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
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Silver Arowana ~ Bony-tongued Fish Family: Osteoglossidae
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Silver Arowanas are carnivorous and need to be fed a constant diet of meaty and live foods. In some cases only live foods will be accepted. In such cases the fish should be allowed to fast for a day and then offered prepared foods.

Silver Arowana, Black Arowana,Jardini Arowana
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Silver Arowana, Bony Tongue Fish, ; Ischnosoma bicirrhosum, Osteoglossum vandelli, Osteoglossum arowana, Osteoglossum minus
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Silver arowanas
This, the Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, is the most common. It is imported from its native South America, but is also farmed in the Far East for the aquarium trade.

Silver Arowana
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The Silver Arowana is a unique and attractive fish. The body is very long and thin with very long based flowing fins. The head is large and the mouth is very big. The scales will be large and very evident. The base color, of course, is silver.

Junior (the Silver Arowana's name) has now happily exceeded 2 feet in size (> 60 cm) and is doing well even though he is a real "tank buster".

A full size silver arowana during feeding time
Note the full-size P.Motoro at back left; it measures over 3 feet across.
Likwise note the foot long Frontosa African cichlid at the back of the tank.

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Silver Arowana - (See Picture above) Silver Arowanas are the most common Arowana you can find in a lot of pet shops around the country, this type of fish you will not find in walmart. It is also the cheapest and not a protected.

SS: Silver Arowana ( Osteoglossum bicirrhosum), Silver Barramundi ( Scleropages jardini )
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HAB: This species inhabits still streams and creeks in Southeast Asia and Australia; Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra, Thailand.

bicirrhosum (Cuvier, 1829) - the Silver Arowana
O. ferreirai Kanazawa, 1966 - the Black Arowana
Genus Scleropages
S. aureus (Pouyad, Sudarto & Teugels, 2003) - the Red-Tailed Golden Arowana
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Several examples include, but are not limited to, the common plecostomus, the silver arowana, the red-bellied pacu, and tinfoil barbs. Realize that the myth "the fish will grow to the size of the tank" is just that, a myth.

Silver Arowana - Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
Silver Cichlid - Vieja argentea
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