Possible arowana killer

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There are so many reasons for such symptoms it would take pages to go into details. The breathing problems could be from bowel perforation and ascites(fuild in the abdomial cavity) but ascites affects animals with lungs because it puts pressure on them but fish breath though gills so I dont know about that but maybe it could put pressure on the swim bladder. Peritonites complications from perforation which would explain the blood expelling from the anal area. Although the bright color of the blood would be consistent with perforation and hemorage of the lower bowel. Altough aquarist dont often talk about this fish are biological organism and can have complications from cancer and other disorders that have no know cause or real treatment just like humans, even in their natural habit a certain % of animals will be plagued by unpreventable disease process. I would suspect you fish sufferd from some sort of lower bowel disorder, tumor, or cancer. None of these could be helped even with the perfect diet, water conditions, or any other treatment. The only symptom that throws me off is the cloudy eye which really has very little correlation to GI problems.

I probably confused you more but maybe helped at little as to an alternative cause
 
Ascites is fliud in the abdominal cavity altough ascites itself is not deadly the complications from it are. When and animal experiences ascites it is from the fact that the fluid build up in the abdomincal cavity causes fluid loss from the vascular system which leads to hypovolemic shock with kidney failure and eventually heart failure. Ascites also causes Fluid and electrolye imbalances along with the fluid providing bacteria a perfect home to breed in. Ascites is not a disease but rather a symptom of other disorders like bowel peforation, bowel cancer, cirrhosis of the live, kidney failure and hemorage with protein loss or lack of protein in the diet from low intake or malabsorption problems.
 
Man, this is very serious. I've heard of ascites before, but never really gave it a second thought until now. Seeing that arowana on the table made me think of mine. Thanks for posting this, I'll be sure to be very carefull of what I feed to me arowana.

Also, I thought I might add something. The owner of the LFS where I got my arowana told me not to feed my arowana anything shelled until its about 7 inches (mine was around 2 inches at the time). He said it was because it might damage the intestinal tract of the young arowana and until its a bit bigger, its better to avoid shelled foods. I'm assuming he was talking about shrimp, krill prawns etc., but crickets and worms he said was ok. Just thought I'd share that with owners of young arowanas. I've known plenty of people feeding their small arowanas shrimp and such with no problem though, so I dunno if its true, but better to be safe than sorry I guess.

Sorry for the loss Rally, may it R.I.P.
 
My Jardini died yesterday... he had the same symptoms as well. Coudy eyes, difficulty in breathing..and blood in the anal area when I fished him out...
 
So sorry to revisit this thread and hear of so many more losses, but I have an new angle to at least take a quick overview of the origin of everyone's Aros.

I mean the Healthy and the sick, The temperment, The dropeye, no matter the size or length of life. Can we perhaps find a pattern in importers, wholesalers, lfs, wild caught, farm raised........and so on and so forth

Maybe if there is a pattern revealed, we can solicit our Arowana's from the "best source" therefore assisting in a higher rate of good genetics and avoiding the less desirable issues. There's not enough research yet, and we ARE the scientists studying our fish daily for years. Individual animals don't get that much attention while under scientific research. We have the advantage of time, we understand their behaviors probably much better than anyone else.......it's the people who love them that care enough to take time to save them.

My personal Interest would be the Silver's and Jars, the Asian's have a good thing going. So How about it?

Aro #1- Florida Farm Raised, Silver, no de, beautiful blue and red colors, I had never had any fish, knew nothing, roommate dumped it in my 55 with some water and well, no brainer why he didn't make it. Sorry little buddy!

Aro #2-Same Florida Farm, Cichlid Exchange in Portland was wholsaler, Fishy Business in Hoquiam WA lfs, Absolutely magnificent, great color, great disposition, just watch the video on my signature line to see this amazing guy
He jumped out, but the lid was still on tight with 6 huge bricks on it, still think the cats hat a hit out on him-they let him out and put the lid back. kidding

Aro #3-wild caught, 3" baby at lfs, too cute to pass up, died from I believe eating a baby cricket that was too hard for his size.

Aro#4-Tank bred, Tank raised,Imported from Hong Kong directly, Fantastic dominant personality, grew at twice the normal rate, Incredible finnage and color, then was flown to San Diego and he turned white(I've dreamt of a Platinum for years)developed de from a specifc, witnessed incident sustaining a direct hard hit on the marble in my tank, exactly on the top of his thick Aro skull bewteen the eyes. In true Aro spazz out fashion............

My opinion: They really do look and act different depending on where they came from. Now let's get down to the nitty gritty, input please.
 
My 8'' Jardini was swimming with it's tail down yesterday and it died within the hour. I think it died because my nitrate/nitrite levels were too high or maybe because of the chinese newt it ate...
 
yup, its true that shrimp and anything sharp can kill a ark. I've had many aros die on me because of this. I stopes feeding them any thing shelled or live and my aros are doing great.
 
but do the benefits of shell/tail on really justify the chance your taking that it might cause problems??? for me it's a big NO. I hope you continue to have good luck!
 
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