Sandakan green arowana Silver Arowana not eating for 5 days now
green arowana Silver Arowana not eating for 5 days now
My silver arowana 5.5 inch , was eating pellets and blood worms, for 5 days now its not wating any thing...I am changing water(20%), adding medicine , adding anti chlorine, anti ammonia ...still i feel some odor in tank ...
Still no luck , its upper body seems to be getting a bit darker and fins on side has blackened as well a bit ....
What can i do , is it normal or am i panicking ...
Regards
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I dont know how often you are changing water but seems you are stressing the aro
>patclay - when she first arrived i changed after 8 days , then i am changing every 3 days since she is not eating and may be ammonia rise might be there, i am also adding aquarium salt, i do not know why she is not eating , also very dull ..
What can i do to prevent ammonia spike, the water is underground water not tap water so no chance of chlorine as such, i still have added anti chlorine, anti ammonia liquid ...
Also when i use heater , she gets very agitated and starts looking very tense , so i turned it off , here the temperature is 32C in day and about 23 in ight ....
Regards
>jinisner - please post pictures of the blackened parts
Why are you changing water every 3 days? And the process of how you change water? Do you add the water and anti chlorine etc all in immediately? What do you do exactly step by step?
please advise the below:
1) pH value
2) size of tank
3) no. of fish in tank
>The odor you can use activated charcoal should works but
if you need to put medication you have to remove it.
The body and fins darker may have due to burn,
water condition not right or you dose too much medicine.
>i change water after 3 days as i was told that fish fins can turn black due to high ammonia , so i changes water first , when that did not solve the problem i added - anti chlorine, anti ammonia , aquarium salt etc ...
Its a 90 litre tank with one 5 inch fish in it
i check with a strip it says ammonia normal , but fish seems to be getting dull ...
If there is high ammonia then why it is not getting detected , in india only such strips available to check ammonia ...
What emergency measure i can take to reduce ammonia ...
Really worried for the small fish ...
Thanks
>It is no more
>Sorry for your loss jinisner
I think you added too many chemicals in the tank within a short period of time and that caused stress to your fish and it died eventually. Arowana is a hardy fish.
For water changes for a fish that small, you should change 20-30% water every 2-3 weeks.
Before having the arowana in the tank, the tank needs to be properly cycled - ammonia 0% and pH value stable and suitable for the arowana. Having beneficial bacteria in the tank is important too. Its been quite some time since I kept arowana (almost 12 years) but before I put my RTG into my 4ft tank, I had the tank cycled for almost a month. I got blood parrots to live in the tank during that period for almost a month. I checked my ammonia and pH levels regularly during this period and was confident that the water parameters were suitable for my RTG. When I was confident, I removed all the blood parrots and put my RTG into the tank.
I did water changes for my arowana every 2-3 weeks around 20%-30%. What I did was to fill a pail with water and put the anti-chlorine into the pail and leave it for 24 hours before doing the water change for my arowana.
I hope you will reconsider getting a second arowana and be more watchful of your water parameters. And as for medication, you need to be very careful of what you put into your tank because medication contains chemicals that can affect your water parameters. I cannot stress that not only are ammonia levels important, pH values are equally important as well. Sarikei Aquarium，
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