Arowana is sick and swimming with bending tail
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If I was going to have an 8' tank, I'd go taller than 2'. Although length and width are important, if you add substrate, decor such as large driftwood, have the water level 2" down from the top, it starts to be vertically cramped.
I added 4" more, and glad that I did and my water level is only an inch from the top.
Just something to consider if you are having something built anyway.
The API kit is to test the water. This is when you need it most not to wait for the fish recover. I didn't understand your logic there.
I added 4" more, and glad that I did and my water level is only an inch from the top.
Just something to consider if you are having something built anyway.
The API kit is to test the water. This is when you need it most not to wait for the fish recover. I didn't understand your logic there.
Sheldon, forgive me I am going to be blunt - it appears to me that you have been keeping your pet rather ignorantly and have done plenty things wrong - just like me when I was younger. The fact that it is still alive is a testament to its strength and astounding resilience and not to your fish keeping skill, which is rather absent.
Along came a chance for you to drastically improve your hobby level. It can be good if you accept the challenge.
Keeping fish is the same as keeping a patient on a life-support machine. It is that dead serious and the mistakes cost fish health and life.
You must own the liquid test kit mentioned above. It allows 100-300 tests of each kind - ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and pH. Please get it asap.
Please don't feed goldfish to your aro anymore. As guys above stated your fish likely suffers from
-- a parasite or
-- from vitamin B deficiency both of which are due to the goldfish diet
-- or from ammonia and nitrite and nitrate in the water etc.
-- from brown blood decease - anemia - look it up - because of the too small a tank.
Your fish can go on for up to 6 months without ANY food and be ok. So not feeding it until you figure out the problem is fine.
Also, please, take a good read through these threads:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/fish-health-diagnostics-read-before-posting.210102/
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/to-help-you-we-need-a-little-help-please.671346/
and through the health-diagnostic sticky threads in this highly helpful forum - including the dangers of feeding goldfish, thiaminase, etc.:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/forums/freshwater-diseases-and-health-issues.35/
Along came a chance for you to drastically improve your hobby level. It can be good if you accept the challenge.
Keeping fish is the same as keeping a patient on a life-support machine. It is that dead serious and the mistakes cost fish health and life.
You must own the liquid test kit mentioned above. It allows 100-300 tests of each kind - ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and pH. Please get it asap.
Please don't feed goldfish to your aro anymore. As guys above stated your fish likely suffers from
-- a parasite or
-- from vitamin B deficiency both of which are due to the goldfish diet
-- or from ammonia and nitrite and nitrate in the water etc.
-- from brown blood decease - anemia - look it up - because of the too small a tank.
Your fish can go on for up to 6 months without ANY food and be ok. So not feeding it until you figure out the problem is fine.
Also, please, take a good read through these threads:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/fish-health-diagnostics-read-before-posting.210102/
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/to-help-you-we-need-a-little-help-please.671346/
and through the health-diagnostic sticky threads in this highly helpful forum - including the dangers of feeding goldfish, thiaminase, etc.:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/forums/freshwater-diseases-and-health-issues.35/
Iwill admit I was ignorant to fishkeeping also years ago but now no excuse for me.
thebiggerthebetter
that was very encouraging advice to give.Hey guys thanks for the Help and information you'll have given me. The aro is swimming better as compared to before. But there are these marks on his body and also he is continuously opening is mouth. Can u tell me what should be done for the red marks and what treatment rather then changing water and adding salt.
Thanks
Thanks
.Most importantly make the water changes routine, still add the salt until the redness is gone. Please don't delay on getting Aro proper housing or rehome asap. Make sure you add dechlorinator during every water change. You çan add extra oxygen by adding air stone. Happy to hear Aro is doing better
The redness of the body like that is consistent with a hemorrhagic septicemia which is when the infection enters the last stage and and settles in the bloodstream, inflaming all body tissues. This is usually the last step before fish dies.
It can be treated with a more or less 50% chance of recovery IF AND ONLY IF the underlying, primary causes of the fish's distress are identified and corrected, which is not your case. We are clueless as to which of the many possible scenarios are playing out in your tank... and it may not even be one of the half a dozen reasons mentioned above but a combination of 2 or most of them or even all of them.
Fish fall ill when their immune system is compromised. Their immunity is compromised when they are under stress. Your fish is likely suffering from lots of sources of stress and I am sorry to say it is more than likely too late to help your aro. But you should try again and learn along the way. Regrettably, but my experience is paid for by hundreds of fish lives.
It can be treated with a more or less 50% chance of recovery IF AND ONLY IF the underlying, primary causes of the fish's distress are identified and corrected, which is not your case. We are clueless as to which of the many possible scenarios are playing out in your tank... and it may not even be one of the half a dozen reasons mentioned above but a combination of 2 or most of them or even all of them.
Fish fall ill when their immune system is compromised. Their immunity is compromised when they are under stress. Your fish is likely suffering from lots of sources of stress and I am sorry to say it is more than likely too late to help your aro. But you should try again and learn along the way. Regrettably, but my experience is paid for by hundreds of fish lives.
