Was supposed to get this post out months ago but only found time now. Apologies for that…
Ok. what do you do when you are ready to bring your arowana(s) home? IMPORTANT …. BEFORE I EVEN DO THAT… REMEMBER TO CYCLE YOUR WATER WELL… I CYCLE MY WATER FOR AT LEAST 3-4 WEEKS BEFORE I EVEN BRING THEM HOME… REMEMBER THIS CRUCIAL CRUCIAL STEP!!!
Ok .. now back to the topic… 
When the arowanas are brought home, you should put the plastic bags with the fishes into the tank. This is to allow the temperature in the bags to approach that of the tank water.. If the water temperature is too much, this will stresss your fish unnecessarily. So be patience with this step. I usually leave the bags in for about 30 min to allow thiis to happen.
After this, slowly open up the bags and fill them up with the water (everytime with a single scoop or two of water into the bags) from the tank. Do this several times until the bags are almost full of water. Should be an interval of about 20 minutes or so between each time. This is also to help 'equalize' the water.
Look at the four photos below to get an idea…
Your arowanas can be a bit jumpy when they are in a new environment.. so don't get too worried. They will probably also not eat for the first couple of days. ALL THIS IS NORMAL OK…. So don't go pulling out your hair worrying about something normal..
Below here are my new golden babies in their new tank.. Enjoy and take care!
Filed under Arowana Care Tips by on Jul 29th, 2010. 22 Comments. 
Hi all,
I've been putting this off for awhile but thought this is as good a time as any to share with you. I've received many emails as well as several request on this blog about where to purchase arowanas. I'm going to share with you where you can actually get some very good quality gold cross back arowanas.
This farm that I'm involved with has been producing some excellent quality arowanas which I'm proud to share with you. Some of the arowanas really look like gold bars! 
I just brought 3 gold arowanas home yesterday actually! 
I'll share with you in the next blog post on how to bring new arowanas home and put into your tanks. This should be another interesting post for those buying new ones soon.
Nice eh? If you are interested, you can write to sales@panglong.com.sg . If you are in Singapore, I would also suggest that you go down to the farm to have a look.
For those looking for red arowanas, unfortunately we don't have many as they are much harder to breed. IMHO, good reds are mostly from Indonesia. Malaysia and Singapore have a harder time breeding them.
Filed under Arowana Farm News by on Apr 24th, 2010. 51 Comments.
Hiya hobbyist,
Thought I'd go into a topic today that's not featured much anywhere. I've actually had many hobbyist asking me what is the best way to move their arowanas to another tank/place because of reasons like moving house, changing to a larger tank, feng shui advise, etc… I thought explaining in words would be a real challenge so guess what??? I had to move my tank for real …. so I thought I'd share how I did it….WITH PHOTOS OFCOURSE!!! Like I always say, a picture speaks a thousand words.
What happened was my wife wanted me to move my tank to another location in our house and of course I could not just lift it up and carry it right.. I could have said no to my wife but thought better as she would probably nag me until I did it anyway. Sigh! So anyway, I decided to do it ASAP. As I did not have a spare tank in my house, I decided to move my 5 crossbacks to the farm so that I could drain the tank and move it to the new location.
I'll be frank here… There are not really any hard and fast rules as to how to move your arowana to a new tank/location. But what I'll be describing below will definitely give you an idea on how it's done if you ever needed to do it yourself.
HOWEVER here is my advise ok… if you have just one arowana, then I think you can probably do it yourself but if you have more than one, maybe it would be better to get some professional help to move them. You really do not want to stress out your arowanas unnecessarily. Trust me on this!
So anyway, let's get started with the move ok… ENJOY!!!
1) The below are probably the only equipment that you would need to do the job. A styrofam box, STRONG plastic bags and fish stabilizer. The fish stabilizer is to make your arowana a bit drowsy so that it would become 'calmer' and not struggle too much when you try to guide it into the plastic bag.
2) Example of a fish stabilizer …
3) Ok before you start, it would make sense to drain a bit of water from the tank. This is in case your arowana becomes a bit excited and jumpy… You don't want it to accidentally jump out of the tank while you are trying to move it do you?
4) After draining some water, put a bit of the fish stabilizer into the tank to calm the fish down. Be mindful that this is potent stuff ok.. so use sparingly… Read the instructions on the bottle.
5) Put the plastic bag into the water and guide the arowana into the bag. Do not try and force the arowana into the bag as this can cause it to become very agitated and jump around and injure itself.
6) Before you tie up the plastic bag for transport, do put in a drop of the fish stabilizer to calm it down for the transport to another location. (Only needed if the distance is far enough and in this case is to the farm.)
7) Putting the arowanas into the tank in the farm. What you should do is put the entire bag into the water first for about 30mins. After which, open the bag and slowly mix the tank water with the bag water before slowly releasing the arowana into the tank.
Ok hope you enjoyed the above 'move'. Do share if you have any other methods. Oh by the way, some people also oxygenate the bags before they tie up the bag for transport but I think it might not be needed if the distance is short. Like I said… no hard and fast rules to follow but some people do take additional steps… Cheers and take care…
Filed under Arowana Care Tips by on Apr 2nd, 2010. 31 Comments.