Injured fins on Arowana

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pyroman522

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Jan 15, 2008
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nitrate 20
nitrite 0
hardness 125
alkalinity 120
ph 6.4

55g tank
magnum 350 filter

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x1 silver arowana
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He is maybe 8 inches long or so. Of coarse he just does not like that darn camera. I need to work on that camera shyness of him... lol

so before everyone screams at how small the tank is for my fish.. i know. And i am working on getting a much much larger tank, prob a 300 gallon. But at this time i have what i have, he is the only fish though and very little scenery, just enough to keep him happy.

So you can see his fins are messed up, they have been since a week after i got him. I feed him cichlid large pellets hikari gold about 7 per day.

any suggestions?
 
I got him at like 3 inches. His fins turned like that within a week of getting him. I do water changes prob every 3 weeks. He swims fine and eats pretty well. i have 5lb rocks on the lids to hold them down because he will even hit those up.
 
I would do alot more water changes...
clean water is essential to fishes health and healing. I'm not saying this is a miracle cure, but it has to help... does he seem to be getting better or worse? I would also try to vary his diet a little.. I am sure othere will have more suggestions..
 
There are plenty of great people here who know about arrowanas and will be able to help you, but I would also suggest posting on Monster Fish Keeper's arrowana forum. Even with your current nitrate, your ODCs are probably too high with water changes at every 3 weeks. Arrowanas as babies need a lot of nutritional variety and high quality water.
 
you need to be doing way more water changes, especially with such a messy fish. the fact that he will outgrow your tank makes water changes even more important. i would be doing 50% at least twice a week.

what is your ammoina?

what filtration do you have running on this tank?
 
as i said a magnum 350, i have not changed the filter in that or anything though. I can step it up in water changes. Being an unfortunate former employee of petsmart it scares me to do so many water changes but i completely understand why. What other things should i feed it?
 
his fins are somewhat pulled back in that pic so its not as bad as it looks.. let me see if i can get another that he is not cowering in the corner from the camera.

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Do water changes 3 times a week. Every 3 weeks is the explanation of your arowana's frayed fins. Deteriorating water quality will simply cause fin degeneration.
 
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