2 year old Australian Jardini Arowana on the verge of dying..

dear Steven,
you are right about the regular water change and the salt treatment. I lay off my hand on fish medication for almost two years now as I found out that early detection of deseases are vital. So a little water change and salt would do the trick. knowing your fish behavour is also important. A change in that usually meant something.

something to ponder:
People usually would not blink an eye when forking out a fortune upon buying a fish. But become trifty in buying a good guide book or something similar.

My greenhorn friends always ask me on pointers on how to buy an arowana fries. Apart from telling them the very basic things ( like how much cash are you willing to dish out. he he ), I always turn the table around by saying in actual sense, it's the fish that buys you. So never buy an arowana when if its the only one in shop. If a particular fish bugs you than buy it. Well just in case the fish is not up their expectation.
Great web!!

Changing water without using Chlorine or Chloramine neutralizer? What?
You have to to use one of these products otherwise you will end up with a very sick or dead fish!!! You maybe able to get away with a small water change with Chlorinated water if you don't use a neutralizer, but if your water supplier changes to using Chloramine, you will end up with a dead fish.

I use a product called Amquel with my 50% water change every 2 weeks for the past 3 years with excellent results. Since many water supplier also increase the pH of the tap water to 8.5 to protect metal pipes from corrosion. I would also recommend using a pH buffer to lower and stabilize the pH to near neutral (that's pH7 for those who don't know). The high pH is very hard on Arowanas. Also, the higher pH will increase the toxicity of Ammonia in your tank water.

So, if you do a small water change with untreated tap water at pH8.5 with a tank containing old water at a much lower pH that have a lot of Ammonia built up in the water, then the sudden shift to a higher pH can cause the Ammonia to be a lot more toxic. (Ammonia is a waste produced by fish and it's a lot more toxic at higher pH). Combine that with the untreated poisonous Chlorine or Chloramine, your fish won't stand a chance.

You can see the effect of untreated water if your fish slows down or stops swimming after a water change. That's a very dangerous sign.

With regular large scale water changes (with a Chloramine neutralizer and a pH buffer) your Arowanas will just glow with vigor. I know this adds more work and expense, but you will really see a difference.

Check your water pH today and on a regular basis.

I hope this short chemitry lession will help in preventing unneccessary Arowana deaths from water changes.

Neosinensis

Shit…that what I just did…since the fiter systems fail so need to clean up and change the water too…and has been couple weeks already the water is very cloudy and now my 4 years old dragon fish ~22 inches long is dying…his mouth is broken and didn't recover for a month now…I put the 1)NovAqua water conditioner 2)Brite N' Clear(clear cloudy water) 3)Pimafix(antifungal fish remedy) The water still very cloudy. Any the fish today is like at the bottom of the tank now………sigh…what else I can do?!!!!! Please help!!!!

Just for sharing, i have some jardini and one SR which already 1 year old now. I always change the water in the tank around 2/3 of the volume, in average once per 3 days, depend on how cloud the water is. I used the old water, minimum 3 days old. It's still ok and grow so good.

always have aged water made for water changes.I use a fifty gallon tank to age my water with a marineland bio wheel 400.

Distress and depress , I am in search to see how to save my "shelookgood'.Last night was alright but today of a sudden like it is gusping for air.

Change 1/3 of my 6'X3'X2.5' thanks.
Unfortunately couldn't lower the water as I have seven red parrot fish in there.

Will get some Epom salt when the fish shop is open….any other expert help will be appreciated.

Thanks ST

Just wondering what is exactly the name of the salt you guys put in and also is liquid type black water extract and tablet type works the same as i came across it just now at lfs.

last question, is green aro same as yellow tail aro? else what is the differences?

thanks

after changing my fish's water,my arowana became slimey…..(for about 1-2 hours)why did this happen???

I have a question, what do you do if your arowana acts differently. Like wise, doesn;t swim up left and right of the tank. And everytime when you walk up to the tank and feed it, it will think you are going to attack it and start darting here and there which is hurting itself.

i m from india,i have a jardini,5 month old,i change 1/4 water every week.i use ug ,power and cannister filter.full change of water every 5 months.give him azoo pallete and freash fish food.any other suggation?

i find a 20-25% water change is fine every 2 weeks and filter maintenence every month. with a water change and filter maintenence at the same time you could expect your water to be cloudy because the beneficial bacteria are blooming again. never do a 100% water change.

i would just like to say thankyou for all of the information, you have helped me out alot and have furthered my knowledge on fish care. I kind of feel a little bit like an idiot as i did not know you aren't supposed to do a full water change

The same happened to me. I was raising an ornate bichir and other valuable exotic fish in my fry tank because they were all small specimens. After the first week appeared fungi or some invading plant which I treated for. The fish recovered, but shortly after they would die to shock and gill trauma. My guess, but they were in pain.

help!! its urgent my jardini fish is dying his head is floating on top of water. what do i do?

i just bought 3 babe jardini for 3 week and not one just die after i change 3/4 of my tank, why is that? do i need to put any type of medications into the tank since i only tap water? also how often do i feed it? Plz and thank u!

I just set up my tank and after 2 days I put my jardini in there and now it sometimes just sits on the floor. It kind of looks like it doesnt have much energy. What is wrong with it and is it going to be okay?