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What Fish Can Be Mixed with Arowana?
Arowana is large and fierce, so mixing isn't ideal, but suitable mates include crown cichlid, parrot fish, and tiger fish - mostly mid-to-lower dwellers that don't clash with the upper-swimming arowana. Ensure ample oxygen, space, and food, and keep the tank clean. Avoid small or timid fish that get eaten or stressed.
Why Do Parrot Fish Turn White?
Parrot fish turn white from lack of pigment, poor water (alkaline or hard; they prefer soft, weakly acidic water at pH 6.0-7.0), low temperature below 20C, environment change or fright, illness, or genetics. Feed color-enhancing food, fix water and warmth, let them rest after stress, and treat any disease.
Why Is Your Goldfish Sitting at the Bottom of the Tank?
Goldfish sit at the bottom for many reasons — resting, stress from a new environment, low temperature, sudden water changes, or illness. If the fish perks up when the light brightens, it is just resting and needs no action. If poor water quality is the cause, change the water promptly; if it is sickness, treat the specific disease. Regular water care and stable temperatures prevent most cases.
Signs Your Goldfish Is Overfed
Overfed goldfish may rub on the glass, swim tilted, sit on the bottom, or float belly-up, sometimes with white or yellow stool. Ease it with water changes, warmth, current, and oxygen to aid digestion. Overfeeding badly strains the gut and can cause inflammation, so feed small, frequent meals and control portions — usually 1-2 feeds daily, more in hot weather.
How to Treat a Parrot Fish’s Black Mouth
A black mouth or body can be harmless genes, a bacterial wound, or fright. Gene spots fade with age and need no care; a wound from fights in bad water needs clean water or a dye bath; fright just needs quiet and no tank-tapping.
Why Won’t a Parrot Fish Eat?
A parrot fish may refuse food due to unsuitable feed, fright, enteritis or dirty water. Do not change feed abruptly; do it gradually. Stress from fright and enteritis also cause refusal. Keep diet and water managed.
Why won’t my Oscar fish (map fish) eat?
Map fish may stop eating from big environment changes, fright, poor water, or illness. After a move or new environment they usually fast, then resume once adjusted. Fright from tapping the tank or rough water changes also suppresses appetite; wrong water temperature or discomfort lowers it too.
Why Is My Parrot Fish Not Swimming?
A parrot fish that suddenly stops swimming may be low on oxygen, too cold, frightened, or sick. Check water and temperature first; if those are fine, treat for gut infection.
Things to Know About Keeping Parrot Fish
Parrot fish are striking, but without careful keeping they fade, lose their shine, or fall ill. Cover six basics: clean water, stable warmth, the right feeding, a quiet spot, some light, and plenty of oxygen.
Why Is My Parrot Fish Turning Black?
A parrot fish turns black from fright (stress), sudden environment or water changes, or genes (some carry black-spotted ancestry that fades with age). Rule out wounds with poor water that invite fungus; keep water stable at 25-28 C, pH 6.5-7.0.