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What Should You Avoid When Keeping an Arowana?
With its majestic look, the arowana adds life to a home and is loved and sought after, even credited with feng shui meanings of protection and fortune. But despite the good symbolism, it is not easy to keep. Here our experts introduce the taboos of arowana keeping, hope it helps you keep them well.
How to Care for an Arowana Scientifically
Scientific keeping means giving proper light, a key point in arowana care, since light strongly affects skin condition and scale sheen. Here our experts explain these two key points, hope it helps you keep arowana better.
What causes arowana gill prolapse (flared gills)?
Arowana gill prolapse has many causes: poor water quality, small temperature swings, cramped space, bacterial infection. Poor water (wrong temp/pH, high ammonia) is most common—change water and adjust. Bacterial or parasitic infection needs medication.
What medication treats arowana cloudy eye?
Treatment depends on cause: poor water quality (correct via water change, salt, heat), bacterial infection (inject gentamicin), or white spot disease (salt and medication for that).
Why does my arowana swim in the mid-to-lower water layer?
Arowanas are mid-to-upper fish but may drop to mid-lower levels due to new-environment stress, low temperature, or strong light. Keep it quiet to acclimate; raise temperature if too cold; investigate bottom attractions.
What is the best food for an adult red arowana?
Red arowanas are omnivorous with many food options. The ideal food is live or frozen small invertebrates like earthworms, tubifex, and small fish, rich in protein and nutrients.
Why Is My Silver Arowana Losing Scales?
Scale loss comes from poor water, chasing new fish off its territory, or disease like red-skin or pinecone. Fix the water and isolate, give more space, or medicate - and know recovery takes one to six months.
Do Arowana Need to Sleep?
Arowana do need to sleep, and sleeping helps relieve their fatigue. However, because their brain capacity is small, they do not need much sleep. And since they have no eyelids, their sleeping state is hard to notice. Arowana are light sleepers; while asleep their fins sway gently. Below our experts walk you through how arowana sleep and their sleep state.
Why Your Arowana Keeps Getting Sick: Common Mistakes
If your arowana keeps getting sick, you may be falling short in a few key areas. Disease in arowana is driven by physical, chemical, biological, and human factors, and getting these right is the foundation of keeping your fish healthy.
Why Does an Arowana Jump Out of the Tank?
The main reasons an arowana jumps out of its tank come down to four situations: 1. poor water quality; 2. trying to catch insects; 3. dripping from the tank; 4. the arowana being startled. All of these can cause jumping. Below our experts detail these four cases.